Answer: The mountains, which served as natural barriers and boundaries, dictated the political character of Greece. From early times the Greeks lived in independent communities isolated from one another by the landscape. Later these communities were organized into poleis or city-states. The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders to new lands where fertile soil was more abundant.
Since the agriculture improved on the countryside it means that the people in the town improved with better quality of produce.
Answer:
A.
Explanation:
The given projection of map is an example of Mercator projection with distorted land areas.
The Mercator projection of map was designed by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. The map projection is suitable for navigation purposes as it projects the northern countries in north and southern in south. Though the projection of land areas is distorted. The continent of Antartica is projected large in area and Greenland is projected smaller than Africa, which in reality is fourteen times larger than the continent.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.
Match the following people and places with their descriptions. Question 10 options:
Anne Frank
Warsaw
Raoul Wallenberg
Elie Wiesel
Chambon-sur-Lignon
1. Raoul Wallenberg a diplomat who saved thousands of lives by distributing passports
2. Elie Wiesel a Holocaust survivor and writer who dedicated himself to writing and educating people about the Holocaust
3. Anne Frank kept a diary while in hiding that was published after the war
4. Chambon-sur-Lignon a village that sheltered nearly 5,000 Jews from the Nazis
5. Warsaw a site of a Jewish uprising against the Nazis.
