#1 - Global Reference, Main Point

[Administrator]

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[lsatstudent99966]

Hi there,

Can I confirm whether or not my understanding of the wrong answer choices is correct?

(B): The passage doesn't say that other Bronze Age civilizations are underappreciated, only the Indus Valley Civilization.

(C): Too narrow; this is only the second and third paragraphs. Also, the passage talked about their achievements in modern agriculture and democracies, but the passage didn't mention their contributions to human evolution in these areas.

(D) Contradicts the passage. The second and third paragraphs draw reasonable conclusions about their people with evidence.

(E) I don't think this is very inaccurate? Probably true? But it's too narrow because it only covers paragraph 4?

Thank you so much!

[Adam Tyson]

For the most part, I agree with your analysis of the wrong answers, 99966. I question whether answer E is true, though. We know that some scholars made certain assumptions, and we know they reached some conclusions that are probably inaccurate, but I don't see the connection between them. There's no discussion about why that one British scholar determined that it was likely a massacre that ended the civilization.

But the main reason you got rid of answer E is the best reason: true or not, that's not the main idea in the passage. It's just one part of the overall idea of the passage, which is that we now know a lot more about it and it looks like some mistakes were made in earlier analyses.

Good work!