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In any case, exactly who involved the antiquated city in current Pakistan amid the third thousand years B.C. remains a baffle. ... The Indus Valley human progress was totally obscure until 1921, when unearthings in what might move toward becoming Pakistan uncovered the urban areas of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro Mound of the dead. That is the literal meaning in Sindhi. Despite the fact that the Egyptians, Mesopotamians and so forth were the peers of the Indus valley progress, their languages and compositions, for example, heiroglyphs have been meant comprehend their abstract works. These assistance in understanding an extraordinary arrangement about the human advancements from the main individual's point of view. Nonetheless, tragically, the Indus valley human advancement has its boustrophedon composed form which is as yet undecipherable. This doesn't give us the genuine names of the urban areas. Concurrently, these urban communities have been named after the towns and towns nearest to where these vestiges have been found.

1. Some humans obtained food through farmin, other remained hunters/gatherers, while others were pastoral nomadsBy 600BCE, most humans got their food from farming, but a significant minority were still hunters and gatherers or pastoral nomads.

The British East India Company is the company that was chartered by the Queen at that time, Queen Elizabeth I in order to make it possible for the British to trade with Asia. The main goal of the company at that time is to make a profit. They know that they would also have the ability to acquire some goods that they do not have and to provide items for the people in Asia that they have in abundance. People have different views about this. Some feel that their main goal is to try to colonize India although this did not work exactly as they have planned. The answer to this question is C.

Fred Flintstone said this, not Yogi Bear. Check out the beginning of Flintstone episodes.

The main reason for this is because of letter A. France at that time was closely tied with the Catholic church. King Louis XIV did not want to break that bond. Rather, what he would like is to make sure that his lonk will be maintained. Another possible answer to this is letter C. It is not a secret that the Catholic priests played a huge role in influencing other people to become Catholics. They went and docked in different areas and they were able to spread the word of God. The problem is that they also colonized people and made them slaves. King Louis XIV would rather maintain his alliance rather than do something to break it.

The Watergate scandal was a noteworthy political scandal that happened in the United States amid the mid 1970s, after a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee central command at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's organization's consequent endeavor to conceal its contribution. After the five robbers were apprehended and the connivance was found, Watergate was explored by the United States Congress. In the mean time, Nixon's organization opposed its tests, which prompted a constitutional crisis. The term Watergate, by metonymy, has come to envelop a variety of covert and regularly unlawful exercises embraced by individuals from the Nixon organization. Those exercises included such "grimy traps" as irritating the workplaces of political adversaries and individuals of whom Nixon or his officials were suspicious.

The correct answer to this question is Cent. Both dollars and cents are forms of currency. Not only is it currency in the United States, but cents are used in Russia, Europe, and formally Canada. In the United States, 1 cent is referred to as a penny. Since 1909, President Abraham Lincoln has been featured on the coin. The 1 cent coin is 0.0598 inches thick and 0.75 inches in diameter. It is made of 97.5& zinc and 2.5% Copper. The production year of the coin appears on it, as well as the words In God We Trust, United States of America, and In God We Trust.

The earliest empires to have a naval force are assumed to be the Greeks, using Phoenician shipbuilders, and they were ramming enemy ships back in seventh century BCE. The Achaemenid Empire, Persia, began amassing a naval force in the 5th century BC. Their first ships were also built by Phoenicians and were 40 meters in length and 6 meters in width, carrying 300 soldiers. Chola Dynasty, India, was one of the greatest naval powers from 300 BC to 1279 AD. The Romans were land-based by nature and their sea battles, such as the Punic Wars, owed much to their servants. The Ancient Egyptians had efficient lengthy boats for centuries but these were predominantly used for transporting goods up the Nile.

The assassination of ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand was the most influential assassination ever in history. It changed everything. Nothing comes closer to hitting home. Unless, you’ve been living under a rock, you already know why his assassination was influential. For those people who still do not know about it, let me elaborate. Let’s go back to 1914. The conditions in Europe are tense. Austria and Germany hate Serbia. Ottoman Empire is looking to get an upper hand in Europe. Great Britain and France are excellent world powers who are jealous of Germany. All the countries mentioned above have been in an arms race for at least 3 decades and are ready to show off their military might. And just in these tense conditions, the heir to the Austrian throne decides to visit Sarajevo, with his wife, in an open car. The Bosnian Serb militants have gathered in Sarajevo under an extremist group by the name of the Black Hand. There was 19 year old member Gavrilo Princip in a cafe, looking at the couple who just decides to take the shot. Guess what his shot caused? WW1!

1. FalseUses of asbestos developed before 1989 are still allowed. Materials that use asbestos today undergo strict testing and have to be deemed environmentally safe.

This question should be reworded. The yuan dynasty was a chinese dynasty started by a mongolian.

Was it? If we are talking first human life to set foot there, wouldn't it be Africa, from where human life is believed to have originated from?