Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people have always been centered around the Aegean and Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, and Constantinople. Many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of ancient Greek colonization. The cultural centers of the Greeks have included Athens, Thessalonica, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople at various periods.

The evolution of Proto-Greek should be considered within the context of an early Paleo-Balkan sprachbund that makes it difficult to delineate exact boundaries between individual languages. The characteristically Greek representation of word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels is shared, for one, by the Armenian language, which also seems to share some other phonological and morphological peculiarities of Greek; this has led some linguists to propose a hypothetical closer relationship between Greek and Armenian, although evidence remains scant.

1. Where were the Greek people centered?
2. What is the 11th century empire associated with Greeks
3. What is one place where Greeks were distributed?
4. Another?
5. Is America one of these regions?
6. DId these regions coincide with anything?
7. Is Washington a cultural center?
8. What is an example of a Greek cultural center?
9. Any others?
10. Another?
11. Is Columbus one of these cultural centers?
12. Is Constantinople one?
13. Does the Greek language use prothetic vowels?
14. What other language is Greek speculated to be close to?
15. Is there clear and overwhelming evidence of this?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. around the Aegean and Ionian seas
2. Byzantine Empire
3. Greek peninsula
4. the western coast of Asia Minor
5. No
6. Yes
7. unknown
8. Athens
9. Thessalonica
10. Alexandria
11. No
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. Armenian
15. No

Question: Iran (/arn/ or i/rn/; Persian: Iran [in] ( listen)), also known as Persia (/pr/ or /pr/), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ( Jomhuri ye Eslami ye Iran [domhuije eslmije in]), is a sovereign state in Western Asia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia, the de facto Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and Azerbaijan; to the north by Kazakhstan and Russia across the Caspian Sea; to the northeast by Turkmenistan; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. Comprising a land area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 18th-largest in the world. With 78.4 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 17th-most-populous country. It is the only country that has both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline. Iran has long been of geostrategic importance because of its central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz. 1. What is the proper name?
2. It's on what continent?
3. How big is it?
4. It's between what two bodies of water?
5. Does it have few people?
6. What makes it important?
7. How many countries border it?
8. How does it compare in size with its neighbors?
9. What is its rank?
10. And its part of the world? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Islamic Republic of Iran
2. Western Asia
3. 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi)
4. Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
5. No
6. because of its central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz.
7. 10
8. Larger than most
9. world's 17th-most-populous country
10. second-largest country in the Middle East

Q: CHAPTER III.

VALVE MAKING.

One morning, when Rollo awaked, he heard a sharp clicking against the window.

"Nathan," said he, "Nathan, I believe there is a snow-storm."

But Nathan was too sleepy to hear or understand.

Rollo looked up, but there was a curtain against the window, and he could not see very well. He listened. He heard a low, moaning sound made by the wind, and a continuance of the sharp clicking which he had heard at first.

When he had got up, and dressed himself, he found that there was a violent snow-storm. At first he was glad of it, for he liked snow-storms. But then, pretty soon, he was sorry, for it had been winter a long time, and he was impatient for the spring.

After breakfast, he and Nathan read and studied for two hours, under their mother's direction. When they were released from these duties, Rollo proposed to Nathan that they should go out into the shed, and see how the storm came on. There was a large door in the shed, opening towards the street, where they could stand, protected from the wind, and see the drifts of snow.

They accordingly put on their caps, and went. They found that the snow was pretty deep. It was heaped up upon the fence and against the windows; and there was a curious-shaped drift, with the top curled over in a singular manner, running along from the corner of the shed towards the garden gate.

"Ah," says Rollo, "when it clears up, I mean to go and wade through it."

1. yes
2. their caps
3. Rollo
4. Rollo
5. yes
6. breakfast
7. no
8. there was a curtain against the window
9. two
10. moaning sound made by the wind

Numbered questions:
1. Did the pair go outside?
2. what did they wear to do this?
3. who woke first?
4. what told his there was a snow-storm?
5. did they eat a meal?
6. what?
7. when he got up, could Rollo see out?
8. why?
9. how many sounds could he hear?
10. name one