Read these sentences from a concluding paragraph. Which statement best describes the purpose of 1. By around 1700 BCE, most of the cities along the Indus
sentence 1?
River had been abandoned.
It develops the topic.
2. The Indian monsoon rains had weakened, causing less It restates the essay's thesis statement.
extensive floods, and as a result, less food was grown.
It reviews evidence presented to readers.
3. The reduced water supply caused the Indus River valley's O It summarizes the main ideas of the essay,
population to move eastward toward the Ganges River
valley

sir thomas more, venerated in the catholic church as saint thomas more, was an english lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted renaissance humanist. he was also a councillor to henry viii, and lord high chancellor of england from october 1529 to 16 may 1532.

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.

a drastic rise in oil prices ended decades of postwar.