Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribesChina's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.
Question: This famous explorer , after reaching China's capital city reported that the Chinese used what color rocks to make fire?.

Answer: Marco Polo was amazed they used black rocks for fuel.

Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: During this time, Alexander adopted some elements of Persian dress and customs at his court, notably the custom of proskynesis, either a symbolic kissing of the hand, or prostration on the ground, that Persians showed to their social superiors.
Sent 2: The Greeks regarded the gesture as the province of deities and believed that Alexander meant to deify himself by requiring it.
Sent 3: This cost him the sympathies of many of his countrymen, and he eventually abandoned it.
Sent 4: A plot against his life was revealed, and one of his officers, Philotas, was executed for failing to alert Alexander.
Sent 5: The death of the son necessitated the death of the father, and thus Parmenion, who had been charged with guarding the treasury at Ecbatana, was assassinated at Alexander's command, to prevent attempts at vengeance.
Sent 6: Most infamously, Alexander personally killed the man who had saved his life at Granicus, Cleitus the Black, during a violent drunken altercation at Maracanda (modern day Samarkand in Uzbekistan), in which Cleitus accused Alexander of several judgemental mistakes and most especially, of having forgotten the Macedonian ways in favour of a corrupt oriental lifestyle.
Sent 7: Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages.
Sent 8: His official historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, was implicated in the plot; however, historians have yet to reach a consensus regarding this involvement.
Sent 9: Callisthenes had fallen out of favor by leading the opposition to the attempt to introduce proskynesis.
Question: Why did Parmenion have to die?.

Answer: The death of the son necessitated the death of the father.

Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: Many plants and animal species have lived on Earth.
Sent 2: Most are no longer alive.
Sent 3: Only a tiny number of species still live on Earth.
Sent 4: If not for fossils, we would know little about species that did not survive.
Sent 5: Fossils provide evidence.
Sent 6: They give us clues to past life on Earth.
Sent 7: They tell us that life on Earth has changed over time.
Sent 8: Fossils in younger rock Fossils can also tell us about how plants and animals lived in the past.
Sent 9: Was it land or marine?
Sent 10: Was the water shallow or deep?
Sent 11: Fossils can even provide clues to ancient climates.
Sent 12: They can tell us if it was warm or cold.
Sent 13: Maybe it was cold or hot?
Sent 14: Some places that are now cold were once warm.
Sent 15: Some places that are now hot and dry were once wet and cool.
Sent 16: Fossils provide a window into the past.
Question: Are most of the plants and animals that have lived on Earth still alive?.

Answer:
No.