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Tikal, the famed Maya city located in the lowlands of northern Guatemala, was likely __________ of achievements attained in the lesser-known polities of the Mirador Basin. As Morales-Aguilar et al. have shown, developments at those earlier Mirador sites (e.g., the ten astronomically aligned complexes at Nakbe) were a historical precondition for the sophistication exhibited by the architects of later cities.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A
a replica
B
a beneficiary
C
an archetype
D
an antithesis