There are some striking similarities. For starters, the developed world uses democracy as the type of ruling just like in classical Greece. Similarly, an emphasis is placed on education and technological advancement, which was also one of the main goals of the classical period.
I think the answer is d. hmm not sure.
<span>"His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a genuine Dutch family, snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse, under a spreading sycamore, he looked upon it as a little clasped volume of black-letter,' and studied it with the zeal of a book-worm.""Rip Van Winkle," 1994 edition, 1-2
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