According to the Yajnavalkya Smitri, which offense would cause severe punishment?
A) ?beating a boy for talking back to his father
B) ?locking a daughter in her room for bad behavior
C) ?giving away a girl without mentioning her defects
D) ?sending a boy to military school for poor grades
E) ?adopting a child born of incest
C
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A) a social experiment to create model citizens B) an oligarchy headed by a tyrant C) social engineering to create a military state D) a bureaucratic form of aristocracy E) a failed experiment in social engineering
Evaluate both the benefits and drawbacks of the rule of the tyrants in ancient Greece.
What will be an ideal response?
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The first person to publish the idea that Columbus had discovered a new continent was
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