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Question 10 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2021 Medium MCQ +3.00 marks · -1.00 negative

For the Maya of the Classic period, who lived in Southern Mexico and Central America between 250 and 900 CE, the category of "persons" was not coincident with human beings, as it is for us. That is, human beings were persons - but other, nonhuman entities could be persons, too…

Which one of the following, if true about the Classic Maya, would invalidate the purpose of the iPhone example in the passage?

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