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AP English Language and Composition: Comprehension 1.9

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00:00

[ musical flourish ]

00:02

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by ancient humans.

00:06

The kind who lived back in the day,

00:08

not the ones with false teeth who visit you on the weekends.

00:11

All right, check out the following passage.

00:13

It's a long one.

00:30

All right, what is the primary similarity between

00:33

the cavemen, Egyptians, Babylonians,

00:36

Persians, and nomads?

00:38

And here are the potential answers.

00:50

So what's the biggest similarity between

00:52

all these ancient peoples?

00:53

Well, could it be C? Nah, we don't think so.

00:56

It's pretty certain that all of these cultures borrowed from others

00:59

in their artistic pursuits. Looser copyright laws back in the day.

01:03

The speaker doesn't really go into this fact, though, except for with Greeks and Romans.

01:08

So option D doesn't look so great either.

01:10

The speaker doesn't mention what happened to the arts in the ancient world

01:13

when a recession hit.

01:14

Though we all know where budget cuts hit these days.

01:17

E is nowhere near the mark, either.

01:19

The speaker doesn't say anything about the effect their art had

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on their technology. A is a little more difficult to eliminate.

01:25

Everybody except the nomads began sprucing up their environments

01:29

as soon as they were settled, but we can't just leave the nomads out.

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Okay, well, we're left with B.

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And answer B gets it right.

01:36

The speaker explains how all these communities

01:38

fed themselves and took care of business,

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but also took the time to create art.

01:43

[ toilet flush ]

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