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Information and Ideas practice question
A historian claims that the town's medieval market drew traders from far beyond its own region.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. Coins minted in three foreign kingdoms have been excavated from the medieval layers of the market square.Correct
- B. The market is still held in the square every Tuesday.
- C. The town's medieval church has an unusually tall tower.
- D. Farmers from nearby villages sold grain at the market.
Answer: A. Coins minted in three foreign kingdoms have been excavated from the medieval layers of the market square.
Foreign coins in the market's own medieval layers are physical evidence that people from far away traded there.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The market is still held in the square every Tuesday.
- The market's survival says nothing about who came to it in the Middle Ages.
- C. The town's medieval church has an unusually tall tower.
- A tall tower doesn't indicate distant traders.
- D. Farmers from nearby villages sold grain at the market.
- Nearby farmers are the opposite of 'far beyond its own region'.
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