Which of the following statements concerning the Chinese kingdom of Xia is correct?
A) Xia had a highly centralized political system centered in a single capital in the western portion of the Ordos bend.
B) Like Aryan society, the kingdom of Xia consisted of loosely organized military tribes.
C) There are no archaeological remains associated with Xia, and the kingdom may be mythical.
D) The kingdom of Xia emerged from the vassal states of the Shang.
C
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a. was based more on practical measures to strengthen the power of the state than to "reform" and free their populations. b. was best illustrated by the activity of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. c. was truly applied only briefly, in the ten months before the death of Emelyan Pugachev. d. was limited by the desires of the middle classes to retain their special advantages. e. best describes the British government in the eighteenth century.
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