According to george herbert mead's stages of development, children first start to learn to recognize an "other" through question 1 options: a. imitation. b. playing informally with other children. c. formal games. d. first recognizing their own identities.

The correct answer is a, imitation. The imitation stage is considered to be the first stage in Mead’s development in which a child is likely to copy behaviors that he or she observes in the environment or what he or she sees around him or her. This likely occurs from birth until the age of two.

first, the romans stayed isolated because they had to defend their own territories from neighboring cities that were harassing them, like the etruscans. second, once the romans managed to defeat their neighbors, and started to expand their territory, they started to build roads and bridges. finally, now that the romans have covered their territory with roads functioning as highways, they could mobilize their legions faster to assemble larger military units in a specific place.