Which of the following is a true statement about the rivers of Afroeurasia?
A. Rivers were largely unimportant to the development of early human civilizations, as early humans could not navigate them.
B. Rivers discouraged communication between early human populations.
C. The ability of humans to manipulate rivers through technological innovation has only emerged in modern times.
D. Rivers encouraged the development of early human civilizations, but also periodically harmed or destroyed human settlements.
Answer: D
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A) Europeans learned the practice of scalping from Native Americans. B) while they scalped Europeans, Native Americans did not use the practice in their intertribal warfare. C) scalping originated as a Native-American substitute for the European practice of beheading a defeated foe. D) scalping was practiced primarily for the economic value Native Americans attached to scalps.
Queen Tomyris, who killed Cyrus the Great, was a __________
A) Mede B) Jew C) Chaldean D) Scythian
Which of the following was one of the forms of government conceived by Enlightenment thinkers?
A) ?Anarchy B) ?Totalitarianism C) ?Aristocracy D) ?Autocracy E) ?All of these are correct.
Arthur Evans discovered Mycenaean civilization on the Greek mainland and Heinrich Schliemann discovered Minoan civilization on Crete.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)