According to Orson S. Fowler, what was the advantage of an octagon-shaped house?
A) It encouraged children and parents to spend more time together.
B) It was more efficient in material costs and therefore more thrifty.
C) It encouraged harmony by approximating the shape of a circle.
D) It was a metaphor for the cycle of birth to death.
E) It was focused toward heaven and so would encourage religious worship.
C
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a. a steep economic decline in the Mediterranean region as silver imports from Spanish colonies declined. b. a "little ice age" in the latter half of the 1200s, cutting food production and leading to famine. c. a sharp European population increase after 1635 cut per capita food availability by one-half. d. the increased gold imports from Africa, which led to serious economic inflation. e. the onset of the White Death, a variant of the bubonic plague.
Rome exemplified a Greco-Roman civilization in what way?
A) Rome had adopted many features of the Greek World upon conquest; their influence can be seen in literature. B) Rome had adopted many features of the Greek World upon conquest; their influence can be seen in art. C) Rome chose a method of persecuting those with Greek ideas and or attributes and instead only adopted the elements they could improve upon. D) Rome had adopted many features of the Greek World upon conquest; their influence can be seen in literature, art, language, and philosophy. The Romans, however, also saw the Greeks as rivaled and chose to either change what was once Greek in origin, or improve upon it (like architecture). Thus, Rome embraced the very best of both civilizations. E) Rome did not have her own identity separate from the Greeks, therefore, she did not exemplify the ideal.
Discuss some of the theories that archaeologists have about when and from where the Americas were first settled?
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Discuss the lives of women in India and Southeast Asia. Where did women have the greatest opportunities? Where were conditions more difficult? How did class/caste play a role in women’s experiences?
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