In 1487 Bartholomew Dias was the first European to
a. enslave Africans from West Africa.
b. establish a sugar plantation in the Canary Islands.
c. sail around the southern tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope.
d. build a caravel style ship.
e. discover that the earth was not flat.
Question 2
Akbar demonstrated his commitment to religious toleration by
a. renouncing Islam.
b. eliminating all taxes on his Hindu subjects.
c. promising to leave India within ten years.
d. converting to Hinduism.
e. cancelling a special tax on non-Muslims.
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