Strong metal tools allowed Bronze Age farmers to grow surplus crops and trade them with neighbors for goods such as tools. The farmers needed a method for recording their exchanges and keeping track of how much surplus they had left. Which of these conclusions do these two events most strong support? O A. Writing gave rise to the trade of items. OB. Writing was necessary for the invention of advanced tools. OC. Writing was an indirect result of the rise of technology D. Writing led to an increase in agricultural output

Read a report of the paris medical faculty from 1348 about the plague. we can say that the main cause of this pestilence was and is the configuration of the heavens. in 1345, at 1: 00 in the afternoon of march 20th, there was a major conjunction of three planets in the constellation of aquarius. this conjunction, along with others like it and the eclipse caused a deadly corruption of the air around us. what is the most likely reason this document would be important to a historian’s study of the black death? a) it shows the importance of astronomy in medicine today. b) it shows how medicine once differed in paris and london. c) it shows how the plague’s cause was interpreted in the past. d) it shows the desperation to find a cause of the black death.