De Beers
De Beers enjoyed dominant position and control of the
diamond industry. As a result, it held control of market supply and demand
dynamics and drove the diamond prices. This was as a result of massive diamond
discovery in South Africa.
Before 1500, scholars generally decided what was true or false by referring to an ancient Greek or Roman author or to the Bible. Few European scholars chal- lenged the scientific ideas of the ancient thinkers or the church by carefully observing nature for themselves.
As Lauren is interested in the study of intelligence, she is
likely to be interested in having to solve problems and its capacity, learning
from the experience that she could gain and a way of adapting from the
environment that she is in.
For a researcher that wants to study mortality rates an information that is not about mortality, or the lenght of human life would not be relevant. So we can reject answers that mention wealth (A and B) or infrastructure (C).
The correct answer is the one that lists the relevant information: the lenght of life.
Correct answer:
D. A set of newspaper articles listing the age of each deceased person in various British cities over several years
