A less brutal approach to justice and punishment in the eighteenth century is associated with
A) Voltaire.
B) Diderot.
C) Montesquieu.
D) Hume.
E) Beccaria.
E
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a. had difficulty finding the capital to expand b. suffered from competition and overexpansion c. had consolidated into four major lines d. had eliminated competition e. were at the peak of their bargaining power
In order to prevent any serious challenges to the samurai class’s military role, the Tokugawa:
granting them free access to peasants. b. Prohibited samurai from depending too much on swordsmanship by requiring that they also practice with pistols and rifles. c. Gave up firearms, ordering that they be seized and destroyed except for a few museum relics. d. Prohibited the samurai from attacking merchants or peasant farmers in order to keep the tax base high.
Which of the following statements concerning peasant revolts is accurate?
a. Peasants objected to new obligations. b. Nobles believed that the revolts were against the social order created by God. c. Many peasants argued that since everyone is descendent from Adam and Eve, distinctions among people should be leveled. d. Nobles suppressed revolts savagely. e. all of the above
Following Descartes' lead using deductive reasoning, which of the following is associated with Isaac Newton?
a. His work in optics led to more powerful telescopes. b. He became associated with the development of differential calculus. c. He described a predictable world based on gravity. d. He proposed the law of acceleration and deceleration of bodies in motion. e. All of these