Happyy Saturday.. Trivia question- Who invented the basketball

James Naismith

Explanation:

Basketball/Inventor

25. twelve tables

26. having important positions chosen by lot

no options provided, here,but the answer to this question is often: a historian cites a japanese newspaper article published a year after the end of world war ii in order to draw conclusions about the effect of the war on the japanese economy.

clearly from the answer, the historian alludes to historical sources,and records to aid in analyzing and drawing conclusion on the effect of the war on the economy of japan.