Beginning about 7000 years ago, peoples began migrating into the Nile valley, some of them because what other large region began to dry up?
a. the Sahara
b. the Levant
c. the Mediterranean coastal plain
d. Crete
e. Mesopotamia
Ans: a
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A. Persians. B. Dutch. C. British. D. Afghans. E. Egyptians.