While China boasted some of the world’s largest cities, more than 85 percent of the country remained rural from the period from the Song to the Ming, with the __________________at the top of the local structure of power and influence, a hierarchy reinforced by an array of sumptuary laws.
a. scholar-gentry
b. military leaders
c. religious leaders
d. wealthy merchant class
a. scholar-gentry
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The agency created to oversee relations between former slaves and their former masters during Reconstruction was the ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
By 2013, well over ________ computers were in use around the world.
A. 2 billion B. 500 million C. 1 billion D. 700 million E. 250 million
The classic period of Mesoamerican civilization was an era of advances in all regions that occurred
A) at the very beginning of the habitation of the Americas about 20,000 years ago. B) between the 5th and 2nd centuries B.C.E. C) between the 2nd and 10th centuries C.E. D) in the last two centuries. E) none of the above.
The Chapelier Law ________
A. forbade workers' associations B. put a protective tariff on wine imports C. granted female suffrage D. expunged residual feudal dues