During the second century CE, Romans began to favor cremation over the traditional means of disposing the dead by inhumation

In the ninth and eighth centuries BCE, the Greeks developed independently governed ___________, autonomous regions with a city as its political, economic, and cultural center

A. colonies B. republics C. kingships D. city-states

A contrefact (or recomposition) refers to the process of

a. moldy figs coming to embrace the new music b. deterioration in the quality of jazz bands c. writing new melodies over old chord progressions d. improvising on the melody of an existing song