Why did people first settle along the Nile River?

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Answer: Most Egyptians lived near the Nile as it provided water, food, transportation and excellent, fertile soil for growing food. Ancient Egypt could not have existed without the river Nile. Since rainfall is almost non-existent in Egypt, the floods provided the only source of moisture to sustain crops.

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What are the positive effects of growing cities?

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Today, a majority of the world’s population lives in cities. By 2050, two-thirds of all people on the planet are projected to call urbanized areas their home. This trend will be most prominent in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America: More than 90% of the global urban growth is taking place in these regions, adding 70 million new residents to urban areas every year.

For the many poor in developing countries, cities embody the hope for a better and more prosperous life. The inflow of poor rural residents into cities has created hubs of urban poverty. One-third of the urban population in developing countries resides in slum conditions. On the other hand, urban areas are engines of economic success. The 750 biggest cities on the planet account for 57% of today’s GDP, and this share is projected to rise further. It is thus unsurprising that rapid urban growth has been dubbed one of the biggest challenges by skeptics and one of the biggest opportunities by optimists.

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The Mayan civilization grew even though it lacked which of the following geographic features

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Trees 3-5 percent causing an increase in temperature and were dying from droughts that happened leaving dehydrated and dead vegetation and so, had no way of food to survive as many say "they did this to themselves" which I slightly agree with but that is some of what the Mayans lacked.

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What was the topic of most of the federal court cases between the civil war and world war 2

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The cause of civil rights, established with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and through the Industrial Revolution, moved at a slow pace. As the issue of slavery and whether the U.S. government would allow it in the border states heated up, the progression of civil rights for all its citizens began to take center stage in the American theater.

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The issue of slavery created a deeper division between north and south in the mid-1800s. From that division, the next wave of civil rights for minorities sprang.

Slavery. The vast majority of Southerners could not afford a slave prior to the Civil War. Poor Southerners ran into direct competition with cheaper slave labor for jobs. Many small farmers moved west in an attempt to create better opportunities for themselves. Wealthy property owners knew that the large plantation system would wither and die without slavery and therefore were more inclined to support its continued existence. According to plantation owners, slavery was justified since the economy of the North and South were dependent on it, with 60 percent of the nation’s exports arising from cotton grown in the South. Another justification was that slaves were better off than Northern factory workers in terms of working and living conditions. Slavery was also vitally important to the maintenance of the genteel and gracious Southern lifestyle. Rare were the Southern voices expressing a negative view of the impact of slavery upon local workers.

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An industry has 5 firms, and is found to have violated antitrust laws. The government breaks it up into 10 firms that will share

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2,000 to 1,000

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The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, HHI, is measured by using the market share of each firm in the industry, then square them, and sum the result.

However, supposing that there were only one firm in an industry, that firm would have 100% market share, and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) would equal 10,000, indicating a monopoly.

Thus, in this case, it was initially 5 firms, with no special market share allocated to each of the firm, hence, it is assumed they shared the market share equally, and that will be 2,000 HHI. This shown by each of the 5 firms having 20% market share

HHI = 20² + 20² + 20² + 20² + 20² = 2,000

At the same time, since the government breaks the industry up into 10 firms that will share the market equally. Then, the Herfindahl index will be 1,000. This is shown by HHI = 10² * 10 (since it involves 10 firms with equal share of the market) = 1,000.

Therefore, The Herfindahl index for the industry would change from: 2,000 to 1,000.

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When the speaker says "first they came for the Jews", what he (the author of the words is a man) refers to is the regular persecution of Jews in Europe, which culmunated in the holocaust, this persecution included all of the following:

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(B) Jewish students are banned from all non-Jewish German schools.

the following was false, as they were actually made to wear the Star of David, to identify them better
(C) Jews are forbidden from wearing any religious symbols.

This does not apply to the treatment of Jews by the Germans but to the general lack of support for the Jews, but it's still true:
(D) The ship "Struma" leaves Romania for Palestine. "Struma," carrying 769 Jews is denied permission by British authorities to allow the passengers to disembark at the Haifa docks or anywhere else on the Israeli shore.

This, as far as I know it not specifically true or not well-known who the first victims of gassing were, but it seems unlikely that they were not mostly Jewish or political prisoners. So, although it's possible, the following is not common knowledge:
(E) The first gassing victims include 5,000 gypsies who were deemed unnecessary to society.

the correct answer is: a, b and d

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