Which TWO of the following statements best explain the central ideas of the text?

A
Europeans saw Africa as land full of abundant resources that were available for the taking.
B
King Leopold was a visionary leader that should be admired even though his tactics were not always well received by all.
C
The Europeans’ only motivation for colonizing Africa was to “civilize” the natives by spreading the Christian faith.
D
While European colonization did irreparable harm to Africa, Africans looked to Liberia as a beacon of hope for their future freedom.
E
European countries went to brutal lengths to secure their wealth in Africa.
F
Greed lead European people to use great violence because there were no strict moral rules in place.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)