Even before there was agriculture, early Neolithic peoples were settling in areas that were
a. far from rivers, the flooding of which was a constant danger
b. in or near deserts, which provided natural defenses against dangerous wild animals
c. habitable, but without material for building permanent settlements, such as clay
d. habitable only by small groups of about 20 people
e. near sources of water and rich in grains that were easy to collect and hunting
e
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The Quebec Act was especially unpopular in the American colonies because it did all of the following except it
a. aroused anti-Catholic sentiment among Protestant American colonists who feared the act's extension of Catholic influence in North America. b. potentially undermined the asserted democratic rights and institutions of American colonists, including the right to jury trials and the election of representative assemblies, throughout North America, not merely in Quebec. c. denied French colonists in Quebec and the Ohio River Valley the right to retain many of their old customs and institutions. d. alarmed land speculators, who saw a huge area in the Ohio River Valley snatched from their grasp. e. was regarded as an unjustified political reaction by the British authorities to the unrest in Boston.
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A) Demotic was the script and it was used primarily for record keeping in temples and in palaces. B) The first written language in Egypt was hieroglyphics, and it was used for the record keeping purposes in temples and in the palaces. C) Coptic was the script and the main purpose was for judicial records and trial transcripts. D) Hieratic was the script and it was used to record the history of the pharaohs. E) The first written Egyptian language was hieroglyphics, and it was used to honor the pharaohs and help the deities honor their promises to them.
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin made it easier to __________
A) remove seeds from cotton bolls B) spin cotton fibers into thread C) harvest cotton bolls in the field D) weave cotton threads into cloth