Which canal cuts thousands of miles of shipping routes from the mediterranean sea to the indian ocean

How do you think american life would change greatly, as soldiers went to war in europe?

How did europeans and the introduction of european goods and ideas change native life ?

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”