The correct answer is false, I just took the test!
A. Astronomers predicted eclipses and developed a 365-day calendar.
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B. The city of Machu Picchu was probably a retreat for nobility.
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C. Scribes painted books and kept records of taxes and territories conquered.
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D. Emperors communicated using runners from the capital city of Cuzco.
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Answer:
War and violence. While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare.
Imperial judges can interpet the laws of the empirebcontained in the Code of Justinian.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which had kept the Union from falling apart for the last thirty-four years. The long-standing compromise would have to be repealed
