Complete the sentence with the best answer.

the two groups of people cicero refers to in the quotation are

"for, you see, the death of tiberius gracchus and indeed earlier the whole conduct of his tribunate divided one people into two parts." —marcus tullius cicero, roman statesman and philosopher

a. slaves and slaveowners

b. the young and the elderly

c. men and women

d. the wealthy and the poor

length of the cultivating season was not a problem of new england agriculture

study of past cultures

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.