Europeans Gained New Sources of Information and Knowledge About the World

question 32

Multiple Choice

Europeans gained new sources of information and knowledge about the world outside Europe by way of

• A)the Crusades.
• B)the travels of Marco Polo.
• C)The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
• D)new trade networks.
• E)All of these

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Definitions:

Negative Feedback

A regulatory mechanism in which a stimulus causes an opposite output in order to maintain an ideal level of whatever is being regulated.

Urinary System

A group of organs in the body responsible for filtering waste products from the blood and excreting them along with water as urine.

Positive Feedback Loop

A process where the end product of an action causes more of that action to occur in a feedback loop that amplifies the original action.

Tissue Types

Categories of biological tissues based on similar cells and their functions such as epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous tissues.