Choose the option that best explains the importance of record keeping within a civilization. a. records needed to be kept in order to organize a settlement and make sure that a recorded history was being kept. b. records needed to be kept, because people needed to practice handwriting. c. written records are the only way we can learn about the past. d. written records were important for civilizations to stay isolated from the rest of the world.

It's A its fairly obvious the other options make no sense

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while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.