Read Text III and answer the question that follow it.
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Read Text III and answer the question that follow it.
Text III
How ghost cities in the Amazon
are rewriting the story of civilisation
Try to imagine an environment largely untouched by humans
and the Amazon rainforest might spring to mind. After all, large
swathes of this South American landscape are blanketed in thick
vegetation, suggesting it is one corner of the world that humans
never managed to tame. Here, there must have been no
deforestation, no agricultural revolution and no cities. It seems
like a pristine environment.
Or so we thought. But a very different picture is emerging.
Archaeologists working with Indigenous communities have been
shown crumbling urban remains and remote sensing technologies
such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) are revealing the
footprints of vast ghost cities. With so much evidence of ancient
human activity, it is now thought the pre-Columbian Amazon was
inhabited by millions of people – some living in large built-up
areas complete with road networks, temples and pyramids.
But that’s not all this research reveals. Paradoxically, it also
provides evidence that the traditional view of the Amazon isn’t
completely wide of the mark. For instance, while the ancient
Amazonians managed their landscape intensively, they didn’t
deforest it. And although they developed complex societies, they
never went through a wholesale agricultural revolution. This
might suggest that the pre-Columbian Amazonians broke the
mould of human cultural development, which is traditionally seen
as a relentless march from hunting and gathering to farming to
urban complexity. The truth is more surprising. In fact, we are
now coming to understand that there was no such mould –
civilisation arose in myriad ways. What looks like an anomaly in
the Amazon is actually a shining example of a process that was as
vibrant and diverse as the rainforest itself.
Adapted from: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26334980-500-how-ghostcities-in-the-amazon-are-rewriting-the-story-of-civilisation/
Based on Text III, mark the statements below as true (T) or false (F).
I. Research has changed the view of how the Amazon was once
populated.
II. The forest was respected by Pre-Columbian Amazonians.
III. Archaeologists found out that Amazonian ancient cultures did
not erect any buildings.
The statements are, respectively,
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