Why were post-Ice Age Middle East settlers able to remain in one place without the development of agriculture?
a. They were able to forage and stockpile nuts and seeds and had herds of gazelles to help meet their additional nutritional needs.
b. They lived on prairies that held inexhaustible stocks of bison.
c. They harpooned seals, stuck pigs, and drove deer into pits or ponds.
d. They lived in an environment filled with tundra-loving red deer, elk, and wild boar in wooded surroundings.
a
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Why did European nations begin to default on repaying their debts to the United States in the late 1920s?
A. They had begun massive rearmament programs. B. They were experiencing severe inflation. C. They were pouring massive sums into social welfare programs. D. They depended on reparations payments from Germany to pay their loans and, since American banks had stopped making loans to Germany, those reparations payments ceased.
In eighth-century Iran, local Persian military lords and Arab settlers revolted, expecting a “rightly guided” leader or _______to arrive and establish a realm of justice on earth.
a. Imam b. Mahdi c. Hadith d. Umma
Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.
a. One year. b. Two months. c. Six months. d. One week.
Which of the following artifacts is unique to the Olmec?
A. raised platforms B. large sculpted heads C. ceramic pottery D. a complex system of writing