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<p>Hi, I am having trouble with this short passage based question:</p>

<p>In many accounts of the American West, the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803-1806) mistakenly marks the beginning of recorded history, with the captain’s journals
constituting a baseline of information about the region.</p>

<p>The earlier history of the West is frequently seen as an unimportant backstory. Although the Lewis and Clark expedition was a momentous event, it was only a subplot in a historical drama of time, place, and people that had been playing for thousands of years. The “new lands” that Lewis and Clark explored were in fact very old: the explorers did not bring the West into United States history; they brought the United States into the history of the West</p>

<p>In context, the metaphor in lines 7-9 (“it was…years”) chiefly serves to:
D) trivialize the accomplishments of the Lewis and Clark expedition
E) place the Lewis and Clark expedition into a broad context</p>

<p>I chose D but the correct answer is E. Why? Thanks</p>

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<p>I would say that it’s E rather than D because it’s not discussing the accomplishments of the expedition, but rather talking about how the expedition was just a singular event in the course of the annals of history.</p>

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<p>Cause can.</p>

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<p>The writer admits that the expedition was a ‘momentous event’, so he/she cannot possibly be trying to trivialize the accomplishments.</p>

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<p>I would agree with Shalooky but that sentence begins with “although”, foreshadowing a statement that would be a counterpart of why it was a “momentous event”</p>