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In ancient times<em> China</em> was isolated because of the mountains and rivers, they had the Himalayas and the Gobi, as good barriers. They believed that were alone in the world. Living in isolation made difficult to govern there, because of the large areas they had. This made people lived in different parts of China, create their own culture and costumes too, dialects, and way of speaking.
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random sample of the town's population
A mix of participants that reflect your town's makeup
Random sample is needed in order to ensure that the researchers do not obtain only the subjects that is close to them. Mix of participants is needed in order to ensure that the sample population are not taken from group with close similarties in behaviour.
The study of the meaning of words is called semantics.
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B. Mantel
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