What custom was common for widows, especially in northern India?
a. remarriage
b. opening up their own businesses
c. entering Buddhist monasteries
d. sati, ritual suicide
e. fleeing their village and changing their names
d
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President Nixon's complex personality can best be described as:
a) usually outgoing and friendly, but also frank and forthright b) sometimes generous and kind, usually forgiving, but often stern c) nonpartisan and scrupulously fair, but often inappropriately generous d) sometimes self-pitying and vindictive, sometimes generous and idealistic
New England developed as a center of wealth because of its
a. rice growing areas. b. rich wheat fields. c. maritime trade. d. tobacco farms.
Before the sixth century C.E., the Chinese maintained imperial unity while the Europeans did not, for all of the following reasons except
a. Buddhism served as the ideological basis of the Chinese government. b. China had a more homogenous culture. c. the population density of China was considerably higher. d. military valor was more highly regarded in China.
For governments, war offered a way to __________
A) unite the country B) control commerce C) reduce expenses D) gain technology