What did mining, cattle ranching, and wheat farming have in common?
A) Most people who tried their hand at them made money.
B) Slow economic growth made them safe investments.
C) Boom and bust economic cycles affected them.
D) The work itself was not hard.
E) They depended on massive government subsidies.
C
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A) The strong Muslim group that founded the empire. B) Mali's great wealth that was based on gold. C) Its adoption of a very strict form of Islam. D) Mali's takeover of Ghana's vast gold holdings. E) Its strong reliance on taxes imposed on traders traveling through the kingdom.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The government of Syngman Rhee in Korea after World War II
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