Unlike during the mid evil. church leaders commission works of art during the renaissance to 1.)teach religious lessons 2.) reward church supporters 3.) demonstrate church wealth 4.) decorate religious spaces

The theory of mercantilism holds that a nation's economic power comes from a a.enslave people b.become industrial c. willingness to explore d.favorable balance of trade

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What change took place in the african slave trade in the 1500's?