English Language · Jumbled Sentences

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph. A. Still, at the time, people took it very seriously, even going to considerable lengths to protect the king by appointing a substitute king who could sit on the throne during the eclipse. B. In the second case, there is a pair of connections that we no longer think of as scientifically plausible, if only because the 3000 years of subsequent history have failed to bear out this connection. C. These ranged from medical symptoms — 'if his temporal blood vessels have collapsed and his eyes are blurred, he will die' — to more esoteric connections — 'if there is an eclipse, the king will die'. D. Somewhere between three and four thousand years ago in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, people began recording connections they saw in the world that they thought would allow them to understand how things worked and what might be coming in the future.