Which is an accomplishment of Askia Muhammad?
A) creating a centralized bureaucracy
B) causing Timbuktu, Jenne-jenno, and Walata to become centers of Islamic scholarship
C) building a professional army
D) patrolling the Niger River.
E) all of the above
E
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A) using serfs to provide cheap labor in factories. B) paying workers extremely high wages, as Henry Ford would later do. C) protecting infant industries with high tariffs. D) freeing private enterprise from government interference. E) conquering neighboring countries to provide captive markets.
In 1993, the poverty rate among African Americans was __________
A) 50 percent B) 10 percent C) 33 percent D) 21 percent
Which statement about the Great Depression is FALSE?
A. The stock market crash in the United States led to the withdrawal of American investments in Europe thus weakening the European banking system. B. Economic depressions were a new phenomenon in the European experience. C. During the depression women were often able to secure low-paying jobs and servants and housekeepers while many men remained unemployed. D. The classical liberal remedies for depressions were balanced budgets, cutting costs, and raising tariffs, all of which only worsened the crisis. E. Fascism and communism appealed to many because of the perceived failure of capitalism.
Evidence of global warming first surfaced in the 1990s when scientists studying layers of ice in Greenland concluded that Earth's temperature had risen significantly during the past century.
a. true b. false