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Ptolemy accounted for 'retrograde motion' in his model of the solar system by introducing smaller circles named 'epicycles'.
<u>Explanation:</u>
- According to Ptolemy, the Sun and the other planets in the Solar system orbited around the Earth.
- The Greeks were convinced that Ptolemy's earlier model did not provide for backward or the retrograde motion.
- Ptolemy thought over it for a while and theorized the possibility of 'epicycles'.
- According to Ptolemy, the planets that orbited Earth also orbited another smaller point.
- The smaller orbits followed by the planets while in motion around the Earth in a larger orbit were introduced by Ptolemy as 'epicycles'.
- Until Kepler proposed his models of the functioning of the Solar system, Ptolemy's models were considered the most relevant.
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<span>D is the correct answer. According to the 2010 - 2015 list of population growth by the United Nations, Afghanistan is number 21 on the list. This is followed by the Maldives at number 76, then Nepal at number 120, and finally Sri Lanka at number 160.</span>
Deforestation can represent the impact that colonialism had on the region
Answer: Option A
<u>Explanation:</u>
Colonialism is the colonizing of a country by some other country which was more powerful and had more authority. Colonies are made because the powerful countries search for natural resources, wealth, precious items in their colonies.
These colonies are also a place for raw material or for increasing trade of the finished goods of the country. All this leads to exploitation of the colonies also leading to deforestation where colonies have to cut down their trees and damage the environment for the benefits of the colonists.
