Which reform by Yoshimune was NOT successful?
a. Controls on interest rates
b. Cultivation of sugar and ginseng
c. Increased attention to products from the sea that provided food and fertilizer
d. Involvement of the government in commerce
e. Finding plants that would grow in marginal areas to increase food supplies
d
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a) William Lloyd Garrison b) Lewis Tappan c) Thomas Herttell d) Peter Cartwright
Which of the following is TRUE about the Hellenistic Age?
A) Hellenistic literature was more narrow and scholarly than literature from the classical period. B) Hellenistic sculpture became more realistic. C) Many new cities were established. D) Scholarship flourished. E) all of the above.
The Mongols were able to maintain control in China for an extended period because they
a. rapidly assimilated into Chinese society. b. maintained a system of harsh reprisals for Chinese noncompliance. c. created a totally new political system that the Chinese found refreshingly appealing. d. maintained commercial policies that were conducive to Chinese prosperity. e. outlawed the subversive ideas of Confucius.
Cycles of time marking eternity in some philosophical schools were measured in intervals; for one example, the shorter kalpa was reckoned at about __________.
a. Six thousand years. b. Twenty thousand years. c. Seven million years. d. Four billion years.