I hope this isn’t too much to ask but could someone help me with these questions, they’re from an article from khan academy. Please atleast make each answer a paragraph (5 sentences) it doesn’t have to be more than that just please help it’s due tomorrow but I think I can do the last one so don’t worry about the 3rd one.

Pl did european countries want to find a shorter route to the far east? a. costs would be lower. b. they could take more trips. c. the route they used was rough and dangerous. d. sailors did not want to be away from home so long.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. obierika was a man who thought about things. when the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? (p. 125) based on the context clues, the best definition for the word “calamity” in the excerpt above is disaster sadness luck indifference

What industry was exempt from the child-labor laws passed in the factory act of 1833?