1. What is common about the reasons behind building the Suez and Panama Canals?
2. What were the dangers faced by the workers while building the canals?
3. How has the construction of the canals saved time and money?
4. Which governments oversaw the construction of the canals?
5. If the canals had not been constructed, which two continents did ships have to go around?
6. Find words or phrases in the passage that mean the following:
a. a particular disease that affects many people and spreads
quickly to other areas:
b. a narrow piece of land connecting two very large areas of land:
c. seemingly harmless but dangerous in reality:
d. the fact of owning something:
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1.The constuction of Suez and Panama canals had substantial impact on global trade ,mainly over two factors.
The first and the most obvious concerns the reduction of travel distances between regions of the world.
The second relates to the introduction to the steamship during the same time period which was able to use more direct routes at a faster and consistent speed compounding the gains from shorter travel distances.
2.The workers that constructed the Panama canal faced numerous danger thousand of workers died over the course of the project. The Panama canal sist on the Isthmus of America the thinnest part of Central America.
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