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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Haym ibn Risch was a fourteenth-century Majorcan cartographer of portolan charts.
• Francesco Pizigano was a fourteenth-century Venetian cartographer of portolan charts.
• Portolan charts were early nautical charts that mapped the waterways of the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
• Portolan charts in the Venetian tradition tended to be sparse in illustrations.
• Those in the Majorcan tradition tended to be richly illustrated.
• In Majorcan charts, the Atlas Mountains are depicted as a palm tree, and Bohemia is depicted as a horseshoe.

The student wants to make a distinction between the two portolan traditions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

A

Majorcan portolan charts, unlike their sparser Venetian counterparts, tended to be richly illustrated.

B

Being in the Majorcan tradition, the portolan charts of Haym ibn Risch differed from those of the Venetian cartographer Francesco Pizigano.

C

While portolan charts in the Majorcan tradition tended to be richly illustrated, those in the Venetian tradition mapped the waterways of the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

D

Unlike Venetian portolan charts, which could include illustrations of palm trees and horseshoes, Majorcan charts were sparse in illustration.