Zheng He's naval voyages into the Indian Ocean served to 1. create a large-scale trading post empire throughout the Middle East and East Africa

2. enhance the prestige of the Chinese navy during the early Ming Dynasty

3. highlight the role played by ethnic Manchus during the Qing Dynasty

4. establish long-term Chinese dominance of Indian Ocean trade

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How is organizing history by theme different from organizing history by region? a. a historian who organizes history by theme focuses on a specific individual, whereas a historian who organizes history by region focuses on a big idea over an extended length of time. b. a historian who organizes history by theme studies a specific time period, whereas a historian who organizes history by region studies a specific individual from human history. c. a historian who organizes history by theme studies a big idea that occurs over an extended length of time, whereas a historian who organizes history by region focuses on a specific length of time. d. a historian who organizes history by theme studies a big idea that occurs over an extended length of time, whereas a historian who organizes history by region focuses on a specific area of the world.

Astudent who takes a multiple-choice test by reading the stem of each item, generating the correct response before looking at the choices, and then chooses the response closes to the answer is using a. a heuristic b. an algorithm c. vicarious problem-solving d. means-end analysis