Document 2: Strabo Geography 1.8 (1st C. BC - 1st C. AD) \"We may learn both fro

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Document 2: Strabo Geography 1.8 (1st C. BC - 1st C. AD) "We may learn both from the evidence of our senses and from experience that the inhabited world is an island; for wherever it has been possible for man to reach the limits of the earth, sea has been found, and this sea we call "Oceanus And wherever we have not been able to learn by the evidence of our sense, there reason points the way. For example, as to the eastern side of the inhabited earth (India), and the western side (Spain and Morocco), one may sail wholly around them and continue the voyage for a considerable distance along the northern and southern regions; and as for the rest of the distance around the inhabited eartlh which has not been visited by us up to the present time (because of the fact that the navigators who sailed in opposite directions towards each other never met), it is not of very great extent, if we reckon from the parallel distances that have been traversed by us. It is unlikely that the Atlantic Ocean is divided into two seas, thus being separated by isthmuses so narrow and that prevent the circumnavigation; it is more likely that it is one confluent and continuous sea For those who undertook circumnavigation, and turned back without having achieved their purpose, say that they were made to turn back, not because of any continent that stood in their way and hindered their further advance, inasmuch as the sea still continued open as before, but because of their destitution and loneliness. This theory accords better, too, with the behaviour of the ocean, that, in respect of the ebb and flow of the tides; everywhere, at all events, the same principle, or else one that does not vary much, accounts for the changes both of high tide and low tide, as would be the case if their movements were produced

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According to the passage,

11. As far as Strabo knows, about the attempts to circumnavigate the Earth,

B. Attempts have been made but they were unsuccessful

Because the sailors had to return back due to loneliness.

12.Strabo does not make the following argument against the belief that there is a continent in ocean between Europe and Asia:

D. The explorers had never arrived in Europe from such a continent.

13. A. Strabo believed the circumference of the Earth determined by Eratosthenes

Because, the exerpts oftjis work can be fung in Strabo's geographia

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