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Frost2351

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on: Aug 2, 2018
Define the following:
 
  (a) empanada, (b) manioc, (c) aji, (d) dende, (e) mate,
 
  (f) matzo, (g) quinoa, and (h) hallacas.

Question 2

What contributed to Portugal's rise in power and wealth during the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Aug 2, 2018
Answer to Question 1

(a) Empanadafried or baked pastry made with a filling

(b) Maniocflour made from the root vegetable cassava; poisonous if not prepared properly

(c) Ajihot chili from the Andes

(d) Dendepalm oil introduced by African slave women

(e) Mata beverage made from yerba leaves

(f) Matzoperson of mixed native Indiana and Spanish heritage

(g) Quinoaan ancient grain indigenous to South America

(h) Hallacascorn dough and filling steamed in banana leaves

Answer to Question 2

Its rise was due to the influence of Prince Henry the Navigator, who developed trade routes along the coast of Africa, as well as to the explorations of Magellan and Vasco de Gama.


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