The defenders of globalization argued that
A) the loss of industrial jobs was due to automation, rather than free trade.
B) cheap imports from overseas raised the standard of living of consumers.
C) Asian workers who found jobs in sweatshops were better off because there were worse alternatives, such as starvation and prostitution.
D) in tropical lands, peasants in need of farms to feed their families destroyed just as much rain forest as multinational corporations eager to sell timber or soybeans on the global market.
E) All of these
E
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How do archaeological finds in Cactus Hill, Meadowcroft, and Buttermilk Creek complicate our understanding of the origins of human habitation of the Americas?
A) They suggest that the first humans may have arrived in the Americas 50,000 years ago. B) They suggest that the first humans to arrive in the Americas may have been European. C) They suggest that the earliest arrivals in the Americas arrived by boat. D) They suggest the existence of immediate predecessors to the Clovis people.
The Maori were the indigenous inhabitants of ________
A) Australia B) New Zealand C) Borneo D) Sri Lanka
The threat of ripping an enemy's heart out on top of the Tenochtitlán pyramid was:
a. A myth created by the Spanish to justify their conquest. b. A humane alternative to a slow and agonizing death on the battlefield. c. A custom the Aztecs had adopted from their Wari neighbors. d. A fear-inducing tactic that was an innovation in Aztec imperialism.
Greek colonization began as a way to,
a. convert to barbaroi to Greek customs b. relive population pressures on the Greek world c. prevent persians from gaining control of te Meditteranean Sea d. control the growth of rome