All of the following were true of the Persians EXCEPT:
a. They originated as agrarian villagers and nomadic herders during the Bronze Age.
b. They had limited success in their efforts to move southward until they reached Mesopotamia, where they learned horse breeding.
c. The earliest homeland we can identify was in Central Asia south of the Ural Mountains.
d. By the middle of the second millennium BCE, they had reached the Aral Sea region.
b. They had limited success in their efforts to move southward until they reached Mesopotamia, where they learned horse breeding.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following is true about the colonization of the Atlantic islands by the Portuguese?
A) The colonized the Canary and Madeira Islands. B) ?They initiated a process of conquest and exploitation that would be repeated in the New World. C) They established a brutal plantation system that relied on slave labor. D) Slaves were taken from among the native population as well as from Africa. E) ?All of these are correct.
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a. true b. false