Answer: Imagines
Explanation: This funerary context for portrait sculpture was rooted in the longstanding tradition of the display of wax portrait masks, called imagenes, in funeral processions of the upper classes to commemorate their distinguished ancestry.
Answer:
The idea stressed in the passage is:
C) the dismantling of an acquired state.
Explanation:
"The Prince" is a famous book by Machiavelli that explains his views on how to obtain and maintain power. In this particular excerpt, Machiavelli is defending the idea that dismantling an acquired state is necessary if the intention is to have power over it and keep it. He says, "The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them," using this fact as an example to prove his point. According to Machiavelli, when people belonging to the conquered state are used to having freedom, if you do not take that freedom away, they will use it to destroy you. Therefore, in order to stay in power, dismantling the conquered state is crucial.
"a. After the rain ended, the sky became blue" would contain an independent clause and a dependent clause, which makes it a complex sentence, since the latter half wouldn't be the same without the former half.
1.)One paragraph focuses on one subject and the next focuses on a different one that's related to the first one.
2.) Sentences have structures like "____ is like this, while/but/however ____ is like that".
3.) Sentences say something to the effect of "Both ____ are like this".
I think that a few signal words "are", "although", "also", and "but".