QUESTION TEXT: The Levant-the area that borders the eastern…
QUESTION TYPE: Must Be False
FACTS:
- Many people used to live in the Levant.
- About 6,000 years ago, people left the southern Levant.
- People stayed in the Northern Levant.
- Some archaeologists think that deforestation caused an economic crisis, which led to the migration.
ANALYSIS: Note that the question stem asks you to assume that the archaeologists are right. So deforestation did cause the population collapse.
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- This could be true: it might explain the deforestation. Animals ate too many young trees.
- This would also explain how deforestation happened. People cut down too many trees to make lime plaster.
- This shows that the northern Levant kept its forests. It explains why there was no population collapse there.
- CORRECT. This contradicts the archaeologists. You can’t have deforestation if there never were any forests in the first place.
- If you build houses out of wood, you have to cut down forests.
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