After Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and reached southwest India, the Portuguese a. discovered that European trade with India was monopolized by Spain. b. realized that Muslim traders could not communicate with Portuguese interpreters. c. discovered a new culture that had never traded with Silk Road merchants. d. established trading forts in India, Africa, and China.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

the name of the theory is landmass theory.