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Early urban societies could not have US → LSF been maintained without large-scale farming nearby.
This is because other methods of food acquisition, such as foraging, cannot support populations as dense as urban ones.
Large-scale farming requires LSF → IR irrigation.
Which remained unfeasible in areas ~RL → ~IR far from rivers or lakes until more recent times.
Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?
Most peoples who lived in
Where people actually lived in early times is not discussed in the statements.
6% picked this
Only if farming is possible
This goes too far by changing the subject from urban societies to societies more generally.
5% picked this
In early times it was
Why this is right
This follows from ~RL → ~IR combining the ~IR → ~LSF three conditional ~LSF → ~US statements. ჻ ~RL → ~US
Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
84% picked this
Urban societies with farms near
Urban societies require SOC → RC large-scale farming and large-scale farming requires irrigation.
4% picked this
Early rural societies relied more
Early rural societies are not discussed in the statements.
2% picked this
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