84- The author states that the magnificence of the tombs .......... .
A) was due to the owners’ many possessions
B) caused the owners to be worshipped during their lives
C) was due to the fact that they were owned by gods
D) was increased after the owners’ deaths
E) increased an owner’s prominence while he was alive
Though he was a fearless explorer and is often recognised today as the discoverer of the Americas,
Christopher Columbus turned out to be a poor geographer. He ended up in a debtor’s prison. He
never realised that he had discovered unknown western continents, and to his dying day in 1506 he
never admitted to locating any place but the Indies. Geographers overlooked his contribution and
named the Western continents after another mariner, Amerigo Vespucci, a merchant from Florence
who participated in a Portuguese expedition to South Americas in 1501. In a widely reprinted letter,
Vespucci contended that a “new world” had been found, and it was his name that caught on.
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