ARCHAEOLOGISTS
Read the following passage carefully and answer
the questions that follow -
Archaeologists believe that counting large quantit-
ies began about 10,000 years ago. Early farmers
had to account for communally stored crops. Early
counting systems involved small tokens which rep-
resented farmers' stores. In the area which is now
southern Iraq, little figures shaped like discs, balls,
and pyramids were used in about 7500 B.C. to rep-
resent various holdings. Later, marks which repres-
ented the figures were inscribed on clay tablets by
use of a blunt reed to cut into the wet clay. Still, the
symbols were always connected with specific mer-
chandise. Around 3000 B.C., people began using
clay tablets and a new accounting system which
they perfected over the next 4,000 years. A writing
system called cuneiform, which consisted of
wedge-shaped symbols, was also invented. At the
same time, other cultures were independently de-
veloping numbering and writing systems. Soon
philosophers began to discover that nature was
subject to laws which could be expressed with
III
1) Tokens represented
A Crops
B Merchandise
C.People
D. Both A And B are correct
Which is correct
Answers
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Answer:
Option :-
B) Merchandise
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