Read the passage from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. The ancient Egyptians believed that the world consisted of the land, sky, and underworld. They saw that nature had cycles. The Nile flooded every year. Plants grew and died, then grew again.

Ancient Egyptians believed that they were part of the cycle of nature. They believed that they would live again in the afterlife. They hoped to travel to the lands of the gods. They hoped to see their families after death.

What is the central idea of the passage?

Egyptians believed in many gods.
Vegetation was important to Egyptians.
The afterlife was part of the cycle of nature.
The Nile River was important for their crops.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.

this forms a narrow, steep sided inlet (sometimes deeper than 1300 metres) connected to the sea. the terminal moraine pushed down the valley by the glacier is left underwater at the fjord’s entrance, causing the water at the neck of the fjord to be shallower than the main body of the fjord behind it.

in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.

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