What were the chief characteristics of the rule of Leonid Brezhnev and his immediate successors from 1964 to 1985? Was there any forewarning in the early 1980s of the advent of perestroika? What were the key components of perestroika, which Mikhail Gorbachev espoused during the 1980s? Why did it fail?
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Instead of escaping from slavery, women were more likely to be
A) compliant. B) truant. C) violent. D) submissive.
What role did Japan play in the development of the Dutch empires in Asia? What events enabled the Dutch to have a relative monopoly on access to Japan?
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For a late-nineteenth-century unmarried working-class woman, why did amusement parks exert a powerful lure?
A) They offered opportunities to supplement meager wages through evening or weekend employment.
B) They provided opportunities for the entire family to have a wholesome outing.
C) They were places to meet friends, get away from parental supervision, and try out the latest dance steps.
D) They had employment bureaus where factory owners recruited for high-paying jobs.
E) They were places to buy bagels, baked potatoes, soda, and other foods and drinks not otherwise available.
The group which dominated banking and the textile industry, and the group which dominated trade and manufacturing, respectively, were the
A. Parsis and Jains. B. Jains and Sikhs. C. Muslims and Christians. D. Kutch and Mahayana Buddhists. E. Rajputs and Sunnites.