What Is the Primary Reason That the Americas and Sub-Saharan

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Multiple Choice

What is the primary reason that the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa only shared in axial age thinking much later?

• A) isolating geography
• B) no sizable political states
• C) failure to develop mathematical thinking
• D) no written languages

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