How did the eastern Roman empire's geometry support its population?

Why do the soldiers board the grounded boat

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What were copernicus’s ideas about the order of the universe deemed to be dangerous to church thinking? (5 points) a.the church was invested in the idea that the earth was at the center of the universe b.copernicus was developing a new religion that would challenge the church c.the church feared his ideas threatened their control of european universities d.copernicus was a follower of luther and therefore could not be trusted