PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME.."The prosperity of Europe and the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century led to the brisk growth of the ivory trade. Wealthy people clamored for ivory piano keys as well as for ivory combs, billiards balls, and knife handles. They also wanted
works of art carved from ivory.
"Hunters and traders (of ivory) created a network that reached around the world. As a result of the trade in ivory, the population of
African clephants, which National Geographic placed at approximately 26 million in 1800, was reduced drastically in a single century.
By 1900, there were just 10 million African clephants left."
What was an effect of the increase in demand for ivory?
A)Actors in the ivory trade understood the moral issue involved in killing elephants and took steps to cease trading it.
B)The National Geographic magazine took more interest in the story and increased its reporting on the topic.
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C)Those in the ivory trade increased their efforts to obtain ivory causing elephant populations to substantially decline.
D)Ivory products, like piano keys, ivory combs, and billiards balls decreased in price due to the high demand for ivory.

Romeo and juliet have fallen in love, even though their families despise one another. based on the excerpt, what are the two main purposes of this prologue?

According to scholasticism, truth is god's?

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.