Čech cohomology of a contractible space with integer coefficients

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I am unable to see why the following statement is trivial:

Since $\mathbb{C}^n$ is contractible, we see that $\check{H}^k(\mathbb{C}^n,\mathbb{Z}) = 0$ for $k>0$.

Source: p. 46, "Principles of algebraic geometry" - Griffiths and Harris.

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