What was the main reason for building the Suez Canal?

The canal was built to connect the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, the  Indian and Western Pacific Oceans for the purpose of trade between Europe and Asia. It runs from north to south across the Isthmus of Suez, it has a longitude of 120 miles. It was completed in 1869 and opened to service in 1870.

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i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years

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