True or false homo erectus devised hand axes that were used not only to skin and butcher animals, but also as a weapon to throw and kill animals as much as 100 feet away.

True

Explanation:

Homo erectus, sometimes called as Homo ergaster are the oldest known early pre humans to have features like the modern human like body proportions. They are also known as the "Uprigth man" and is likely to be originated at Africa.  Homo erectus were the first to make hand axes out of stone and they know the use of fire to cook food.

            They used their hand axes made of stone to skin and butcher animals and also to throw the axe to hunt the animals that are far from them.

Thus the answer is true.

a, c, & d are correct:

they wanted lands to settle the extra population.

they wanted new markets for english goods.

they wanted to avoid civil war.