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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brie f passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - I

Harvesters are the only kind of ants to go in for accumulating property, as well as the chief kind to practice war. This association of property with war is interesting, as various anthropologists believe that in the human species war, or at any rate habitual and organised war, did not arise in human evolution until man had reached the stage of settled civilization, when he began to accumulate stores of grain and other forms of wealth.

Men did not fight frequently and in an organized way until they

A) started leading a settled life

B) discovered deadly weapons  

C) became very powerful      

D) developed the art of war