What attracted the europeans to the lands of the middle east

Why hadn’t europeans used maritime routes before the age of exploration?

This is a picture of workers in a factory. why was this picture most likely taken? to advertise that kids could get jobs to expose the horrors of child labor to show pride in children at work to show that night workers were needed o

“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