Lloyd’s of London was one of the first institutions to offer insurance to merchants and joint-trade companies. A major part of the insurance system involved people who agreed to take responsibility for the insured losses in return for a fee. What were these risk-takers known as?

cultural history is your answer

though both had similar roots, they both took these similar bases & formed it into their own way. both the byzantine empire and ancient roman have similar aspects, but each one made it unique. both the byzantine empire and ancient romans had roman influences which affected their culture

mapmaking. cartography had been an art form for many years, but it wasn’t until the renaissance when ptolemy’s ancient system of latitude and longitude was rediscovered that mapmakers were able to make surprisingly accurate and useful maps.

it would weaken the prestige of japan’s military.