Read the excerpt from "benin plaque: the oba with europeans.” the portuguese galleons, cutting out all the middlemen and able to carry much bigger cargoes, offered a totally new kind of trading opportunity. they and their dutch and english competitors, who followed later in the sixteenth century, carried gold and ivory to europe and in return brought commodities from all over the world that were greatly valued by the oba’s court, including coral from the mediterranean, cowry shells from the indian ocean to serve as money, cloth from the far east and, from europe itself, larger quantities of brass than had ever before reached west africa. this was the raw material from which the benin plaques were made. which central idea is best supported by the details in the excerpt? the benin people had access to the riches of the world through trade. the members of the oba’s court were richer than other benin people. european traders treated the benin people unfairly in trade agreements. the benin plaques were highly valued by portuguese traders.

Plz im failing ela prompt: in a well-developed paragraph using the r.a.c.e. method, explain the allusion found in the advertisement. be sure to include an explanation of the character and how the allusion is used to sell the product. advertisement: excerpt from the christmas carol: use this information to deepen your understanding of the character. oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. a frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. he carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at christmas. race: use this organizational method to guide your writing- r – restate the prompt a – answer the prompt/questions c – cite evidence e – explain the evidence write your response here: