Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Historian: Fifteenth-century advances in mapmaking contributed to the

­You're right that the words "political powers" do not appear in the passage. However, this doesn't mean you can automatically make an elimination -- you still have to see whether the answer choice impacts the argument, even if the words aren't an exact match.

First, think about the definition of "political power." In this context, "political powers" are the governments of sovereignregions . Here's a sentence using the term in that way: "The USSR was as a formidable political power in the Cold War era, exerting influence across vast swathes of Eastern Europe and Asia."

The passage describes a shift in how "political powers" were shaped -- first they were centered in cities and radiated outward, and later they became more like modern nation-states. (E) strengthens the argument that mapmakers contributed
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