EducationAisle wrote:
flowerchild wrote:
I understand that E is the correct answer but I don't get the meaning of the following part.
"(complex societies) arose simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia".
Isn't an idiom "simultaneously with" supposed to be followed by a noun, is it? Would anybody help explain the structure of the sentence?
"(complex societies) arose simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia".
Isn't an idiom "simultaneously with" supposed to be followed by a noun, is it? Would anybody help explain the structure of the sentence?
Hi flowerchild, indeed it is followed by a noun (noun-phrase here):
..centrally administered complex societies in
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