What pattern can be seen around the edges of tectonice plates

While most people who lived in ancient egypt and the middle east avoided settling in nearby deserts, those regions protected them from their enemies. why do you think this was true?

Landmasses on a flat map look distorted because

Mexico city is an example of how humans alter their environment because it was a. one of the world’s largest cities b. built on drained and filled lake beds c. built after conquest by the spanish d. once the capital of the aztec empire