Which of the following best describes the reasons friars and jesuits went to the colonies?

a)they went to serve the native peoples who had become christians years earlier.

b)they went in search of gold and glory.

c)they went to find new lands, wildlife, and fauna.

d)they went to convert the native peoples to catholicism.

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

c.) biotic: snails; abiotic: temperature climate