7. All the following are settlement patterns except A. nodal.
B. ribbon.
C. rural.
D. terminus.

D. terminus.

Explanation:

Nodal, ribbon and rural are types of settlement pattern, which are geographic settlement formats that refer to the way a geographic space is organized either in a natural way or with human intervention. There are several different types of settlement pattern, however, terminus is not one of them, as it does not represent any type of geographic organization.

answer; ancient times;

the writings of john locke primarily led the founding fathers to believe that the colonists had a right to overthrow the current british government, since locke held that if a government becomes tyrannical it is the peoples' right to replace it.