Select the correct answer. Read the words spoken by an imaginary farmer in Rome, and then answer the question.

The threat of attack was always there. Life in the countryside seemed safer than in the cities, especially since we grew our own food to survive. But we never knew when one of the neighboring tribes or invaders would come through our town. Lord Otho lived nearby. He was a strong leader with money to pay several soldiers who were no longer loyal to the Roman Empire. We fled to his manor to ask for his protection in return for part of our grain. When he agreed, we all felt safer in our homes than we had in a long time.

What effect of the fall of the Roman Empire does the farmer describe?
A.
the decline in literacy
B.
the rise of the feudal system
C.
the diminished value of Roman coins
D.
the use of the barter system
E.
the survival of a strong central government

What were some passive/non-direct ways that enslaved africans did to resist slavery?

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

After about 1000 b.c, some people in siberia meaning their lives wre bassed on herding animals. a. pastoral b. collective c. irrigate d. dalits