Around 500 BCE, the Persian empire had become integrated enough that the kings could _______.
a. Eliminate tributes and taxes for most of its conquered peoples.
b. Send delegations of athletes to the Greek Olympic Games.
c. Replace indigenous rulers with their own governors from the Persian aristocracy.
d. Begin pulling back from an expansionist foreign policy.
c. Replace indigenous rulers with their own governors from the Persian aristocracy.
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A) deeply Islamic B) city-states based on a commercial economy C) commercial ties to North Africa D) farming and herding with many stateless societies
Under congressional Reconstruction, southern states were required to
a. elect officials from the Republican party. b. ratify the Fifteenth Amendment. c. give freed slaves the right to vote. d. provide land and an education for former slaves. e. protect black religious freedom.
Li Bo
a. was the founder of the Ming Dynasty. b. was a historian during the Song Dynasty. c. was a sober Confucian civil servant. d. wrote a poem entitled "Drinking Alone in Moonlight." e. defeated the Mongols at Wuhan.
The text suggests that the primary explanation for the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union was
a. exclusively because of failures within the Soviet Union, especially in its command economy. b. entirely the result of the arms race initiated by President Ronald Reagan which bankrupted the Soviet Union. c. mainly the result of failures within Soviet society but it was also influenced by Reagan's arms race policy. d. environmental disasters in Central Asia and Siberia. e. the weak leadership of President Boris Yeltsin.