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Information and Ideas practice question
A maritime historian claims that the wreck was carrying tin when it sank.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. Divers recovered forty tin ingots stamped with a mine mark from the wreck's hold, and chemical tests match the tin to ore from that mine.Correct
- B. Tin was valuable in the period.
- C. The ship was built in a port near tin mines.
- D. The wreck lies on a known trade route.
Answer: A. Divers recovered forty tin ingots stamped with a mine mark from the wreck's hold, and chemical tests match the tin to ore from that mine.
Ingots in the hold, matched to a mine: the cargo itself.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Tin was valuable in the period.
- Value doesn't show what this ship carried.
- C. The ship was built in a port near tin mines.
- Build location doesn't show cargo.
- D. The wreck lies on a known trade route.
- A trade route carried many cargoes.
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