In the following question, two columns are given, containing three phrases each. A phrase from the first column may or may not connect with a phrase from the second column to make a grammatically and contextually correct sentence. There are five options, four of which display the sequence(s) in which the phrases can be joined to form a correct sentence. If none of the phrases make a correct sentence, mark ‘None of these’ as your answer.

Column (1)	Column (2)
(A) In the centuries after 1000, through their eager engagement in the Mediterranean, Europeans would adopt	(D) with peoples moving up from Africa and southern Europe and west from eastern Europe and central Asia
(B) American and European culture exists as it does today thanks to the influence of outside peoples, fellow inhabitants of	(E) continued to do so even after they had been conquered by European princes.
(C) The northern European culture so cherished by ethnic-nationalists, has never been completely isolated, and it was contact	(F) at least from the Indus to the Atlantic and from near the Arctic circle to below the Sahara.