Which of the following statements about shifting cultivation is true?
A. It is typically associated with the use of draft animals.
B. It cannot support permanent villages.
C. It requires irrigation.
D. It requires cultivators to change plots of land, with the fallowing durations varying in different societies.
E. It relies extensively on chemical fertilizers.
Answer: D
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Capitalism as an ideology-based economic system arose __________, based on the principles of private property, individual rights, free trade, profit, and the amassing of wealth
a. in China in the eighteenth century b. in the Spanish Americas in the sixteenth century c. in Europe in the sixteenth century d. in the Middle East in the eighteenth century
Religious syncretism refers to the merging of a religious belief or practice from one religion with another
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
In colonial Kenya, a hut tax __________
a. forced women to find wage labor b. resulted in most of the food that was grown by the Luo going to the British c. could not be paid only by labor d. forced heads of households to seek wage labor in order to earn cash
While forms of religion may vary, they all are founded upon a belief:
a. in one major deity. b. that there is life after death. c. in the supernatural. d. in reincarnation. e. that there is good and evil in the world.