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A gas at 5.00 atm pressure was stored in a tank during the winter at 5.0 °C. During the summer, the temperature in the storage area reached 40.0 °C. What was the pressure in the gas tank in the summer, if volume and amount of gas do not change?

Cook’s unwillingness to respect the knowledge of local, indigenous peoples wherever he traveled set him apart from other explorers of the time.

According to the video, all of the following are true of Cook’s map of New Zealand EXCEPT:

In sixteen years of marriage, James Cook and his wife spent a total of just four years together.

Within a hundred years of European colonization in Africa, African people began organizing and resisting.

The only two countries to remain uncolonized by European powers during the Scramble for Africa were                  1                   and                           2                         . (Spelling and capitalization count. Only enter the names of the country, properly spelled, with the first letter capitalized. Do not add any additional words or punctuation.)   [1] [2]  

After 1880, Angola was ruled by

King Leopold of Belgium was most interested in gaining rubber from Congo and he treated the Congolese people brutally in order to obtain it.

King Alfonso wrote to the king of Portugal asking him to stop the slave trade out of Africa because slavery was not compatible with European values.

When Kimpa Vita was told to sit on the floor by a Portuguese official, she commanded one of her attendants to kneel down and she sat on him instead.