How did Italy’s Mediterranean location help give birth to the Renaissance? The Mediterranean Sea prevented foreign ideas from influencing Italian thinkers.
The Mediterranean Sea prevented faraway traders from traveling to Italy.
Italians were exposed to new ideas as travelers and traders passed through their country.
Italians were encouraged to give up their studies in favor of Arab philosophy.

because it !

1.d 2.a c.!

the correct answer is: (1) affected by gerrymandering; (2) not affected by gerrymandering.

gerrymandering is known as a practice that intends to establish a some kind of political advantage for a particular party or group. to do this district boundaries are manipulated. the new resulting district is named a gerrymandering.

in other words, what gerrymandering does is to draw the boundaries of electoral districts trying to benefit the party who is doing it. sometimes, the party controlling the legislature will redraw it so they can maximize the number of districts they are likely to control.