What were the primary duties of the Igbo omu?

What will be an ideal response?


The primary duties were to establish rules and regulations for the community market and hear cases involving women brought to them from throughout the area.

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The first writing presumably developed to handle recordkeeping for a centralized economy. Where did this first happen?

A. southern Mesopotamia B. northern Mesopotamia C. the Levant D. C?atalho?yu?k E. central Iran

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________ refers to the process by which humans innovate to creatively find solutions to problems.

A. Globalization B. Enculturation C. Independent invention D. Acculturation E. Diffusion

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The Hijra of Hindu India exemplify

a. a gender role that tolerates a wider definition of gender than is found in our own society. b. a gender role which defines masculinity more rigidly than our own society. c. a gender role which defines masculinity and femininity almost identically. d. social deviants who are discouraged in their own society. e. a type of individual who has no actual biological sexual definition.

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Biology produces culture, but culture does not influence biology

a. True b. False

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