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As the country grew, certain elements led some towns to morph into large urban centers, while others did not. The following four innovations proved critical in shaping urbanization at the turn of the century: electric lighting, communication improvements, intracity transportation, and the rise of skyscrapers.
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Evidence beyond the Documents:
This additional piece of evidence must be different from the evidence used to earn the point for contextualization.
George Washington, this country owes many thanks to you and your service. You led us out of the depths of the American Revolution, for you had persuasion in military and politics. Your influence over the people of this great nation is like no other. As one of our founding fathers and as the first president of the United States, I can rightfully say that you are the Father of this Country. We can boldly recognize your accomplishments as the reason we're successful today. Your inspiration and perseverance in the war is, no doubt, led to the backbone of our stable country. So, this nation applauds your efforts to lead us out of the darkness, and we thank you for your persistence in everything you did.<span> </span>
Your directions are east and slightly south from New York.
Answer: The answer is the 1st option.
Explanation: The first sentence in the passage above talks about predicting the possibility of Mongolian domination and then the rest of that paragraph backs this prediction by outlining how weak or fragmented much of the world was. So the author was suggesting that the world seemed to be ripe for conquest.
The second paragraph makes reference to ignoring the latent forces of the Arabian Desert" because Arabia would have seemed what it had been for times immemorial, the refuge of small and bickering nomadic tribes. This reinforces the idea that no one would have predicted a new, powerful empire to emerge from Arabia at that time.
