Which of the following excerpts from Diamond's article best sets the
groundwork for his argument from precedent?
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A. But before we let ourselves get depressed, we should also
remember that there is another long list of cultures that have
managed to prosper for lengthy periods of time.
O
B. Today, despite having the highest human population density of any
large developed country, Japan is more than 70 percent forested.
O
C. Pitcairn, the uninhabited island settled in 1790 by the H. M.S.
Bounty mutineers, had actually been populated by Polynesians
800 years earlier.
D. There were also the ancient Fertile Crescent societies, the Khmer
at Angkor Wat, the Moche society of Peru - the list goes on.

i also think the correct answer here would be b.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.