What’s an example of when overseas expansion in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries relied on previously existing technologies and new technologies?

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during the middle ages bibles and most christian literature was written in latin i think that’s the answer you are looking for

no options provided, here,but the answer to this question is often: a historian cites a japanese newspaper article published a year after the end of world war ii in order to draw conclusions about the effect of the war on the japanese economy.

clearly from the answer, the historian alludes to historical sources,and records to aid in analyzing and drawing conclusion on the effect of the war on the economy of japan.