Answer:
A.
The Silk Road connected China to the Mediterranean Sea.
It is false that the average person usually has between 15 - 30 acquaintances. An acquaintance is a person you know, so I'm sure you know more than 30 people. As you grow older, you meet more and more people, and the number is sure to surpass 30.
I believe it was Franz Boas.
He argued that in order to understand what is (behaviors, beliefs, , symbols), one had to examine them in their local context.