Increased literacy rates and improved writing systems facilitated the Axial Age because figures like Confucius, Laozi, the Buddha, and Socrates used writing as the primary method of communicating their ideas.1. True2. False

Read the excerpt from the odyssey. 'o cyclops! would you feast on my companions? puny, am i, in a caveman's hands? how do you like the beating that we gave you, you cannibal? eater of guests under your roof! zeus and the gods have paid you! ' according to this excerpt, a. odysseus is fearful of the cyclops. b. is prideful and overly confident. c. has been weakened by the cyclops. d. has regrets about staying on the island.