Recent Archeological and Anthropological Discoveries Have Shown That

question 109

Multiple Choice

Recent archeological and anthropological discoveries have shown that

• A)Africans took over the Arabian Peninsula before 1,000 B.C.E.
• B)African societies were much more involved in worldwide developments of human history than had previously been believed.
• C)the process of state-building was more advanced in sub-Sahara Africa than it was in ancient India, China and Mesopotamia.
• D)farming and kingship were concepts brought into Africa from Mesopotamia.
• E)Africa was totally isolated from the rest of the world until the tenth century C.E.

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