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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?
Majorcan portolan charts, unlike their sparser Venetian counterparts, tended to be richly illustrated.
A
Being in the Majorcan tradition, the portolan charts of Haym ibn Risch differed from those of the Venetian cartographer Francesco Pizigano.
B
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.
C
Unlike Venetian portolan charts, which could include illustrations of palm trees and horseshoes, Majorcan charts were sparse in illustration.
D