During the age of exploration, sailors explored the world using routes that stretched?

The correct answer is yes, this was called the global exploration.

Explanation:

This happened during the 19th century on which portuguese explorers and also other sailors, such as Christopher Columbus went discovering different parts of the world, including continents that had sea routes, for example: Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia. This exploration gave rise to a better global trade between european and american countries. The age of discovery also gave as a consequence the producing of the columbian exchange, a wide transfer of plants, animals, food, human populations communicable diseases and culture between eastern and western hemispheres.

c. bounced back and forth from worthless to worth a lot and back to worthless

a.

congress passed laws allowing for free passage between states.