Who faced a greater risk of early death due to water contaminationand animal-borne diseases?

In ancient times, when populations were highly threatened by malaria, West Nile virus, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, Western equine encephalitis, filariasis, dengue fever and other diseases transmited by mosquitoes, flees, other blood feeding anthropods and by drinking contaminated water, early farmers faced a greater risk of early death from their crops and incipient animal domestication.

Explanation:

  the common sense as a pamphlet written by thomas paine. it promoted the independence of the colonies from british rule. the distribution of this pamphlet was great, it reached people everywhere and it was even read aloud at places people met. it also unite the colonists before the revolutionary war.

answer is d