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In the field of historiography—the writing of history based on a critical examination of authentic primary information sources—one area that has recently attracted attention focuses on the responses of explorers and settlers to new landscapes in order to provide insights into the transformations the landscape itself has undergone as a result of settlement. ██ ████ ████████ ████████████████ █████████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████ ████ █████████████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ██ ████████ ████████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███████ ████ ██ ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ███████████ ████ ██████████ ██ ██████ ██████████ █████ ████████ ██ ████████

Traditional sources · for studying land of Pacific Coast: written records from European American explorers

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New sources needed · Traditional sources omit response of Asian settlers to the land

Asian settlers didn't leave many written records.

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Example of Chinese settlers' impact · Irrigated much of the land

This helped the area become a top producer of many specialty crops. Historiographers can't fully undersatnd this without studying Chinese settlers.

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This Strengthen question asks us to support the author’s main claim in the last sentence of the passage. In this sentence, the author claims that the actions of nineteenth century Chinese settlers have a connection with the widespread irrigation and successful crop production in the region today.

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This does not impact the author’s argument that the actions of early Chinese settlers in the Pacific Coast are connected to the agricultural success of the region today.

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(B) strengthens the argument that the actions of early Chinese settlers in the Pacific Coast are connected to the agricultural success of the region today because it shows specifically how the actions of Chinese settlers facilitated agricultural success in the region. (B) shows that the successful farms are directly connected with the actions of Chinese settlers.

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(C) doesn’t connect the actions of the Chinese settlers with modern agricultural success in the Pacific Coast region, so it does not impact the author’s argument. (C) just says that irrigating soil helps the land that is cultivated by large agribusinesses; (C) doesn’t say who is irrigating the soil, and it doesn’t specifically refer to land on the Pacific Coast, so it’s way too general to strengthen the author’s claim.

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(D) doesn’t connect the actions of the Chinese settlers with modern agricultural success in the Pacific Coast region, so it does not impact the author’s argument. (D) just says that technology has gotten more efficient over time; (D) doesn’t indicate that it was the actions of the Chinese settlers specifically that benefitted agriculture in the region.

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(E) just says that the weather facilitates the growth of specialty crops; (E) doesn’t connect the actions of the Chinese settlers with modern agricultural success in the Pacific Coast region, so it does not impact the author’s argument.

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