By the end of the nineteenth century, German industry
A) was prospering, having avoided costly early experimentation.
B) was growing faster than France's.
C) had pioneered in electrical engineering and chemicals.
D) had entered into industrial fields neglected by the British.
E) All of the above.
Ans: E
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A) attracted new investors to the business. B) attracted new young single women from New England farms to work in the mill factories and live in the mill towns. C) exaggerated the benevolence of the mill owners and the healthy and virtuous working conditions and good life of the young single women who labored in these factories and lived in these factory towns. D) recurited child laborers as young as 10-years old to replace the single young women who proved to be recalcitrant and incompetent workers.
Members of the Sandé cult a. frequently engaged in wars with neighboring tribes to obtain prisoners for human sacrifice to the gods. b. established diplomatic relations between Benin and Portugal and acted as middlemen in the trade betweenthe two societies
c. were led by female religious leaders and were not allowed to reveal the secrets of their cult to men. d. were the only known West Africans to have monotheistic religious beliefs.
The principal reason Stalin wanted control of the countries of Eastern Europe was
A. to antagonize the United States and lure them into war. B. to seize their valuable natural resources, which the Soviet Union lacked. C. to protect the Soviet Union from once again falling into hostile hands. D. his desire for global communist domination.
What best characterizes the nature of Indian society today?
a. India, unlike China, has rejected its cultural traditions and adopted those of the West. b. The majority of India's population is part of a large and growing middle class. c. India's economy is a perfect model of the modern, successful socialist state. d. India today is a nation of contrasts, with a majority of its population living in poverty. e. Rural and urban poverty in India is rapidly becoming the norm for the first time in Indian history.