Define the term commercial diaspora. What role did commercial diasporas play in Afroeurasian society? Provide examples of diasporic communities that provided important commercial services. What was the position of these groups within the larger framework of Afroeurasian society? What were some of the significant changes in trading practices that enabled commercial diasporas to arise?
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A) race-based affirmative action programs in colleges and universities were constitutional. B) the federal government has no jurisdiction over private matters like racial discrimination. C) separation of the races is legal as long as each race has equal accommodations and facilities. D) separate facilities are inherently unequal.
In Mexico
a. the fascistic PRI seized power in 1926. b. a thirty-year search for commercially successful oil fields ended in failure in 1935. c. the Cárdenas government nationalized the foreign oil companies' holdings and provided millions of acres of land to landless peasants. d. Diego Rivera invented the transistor in 1936. e. a devastating famine killed one-quarter of the population between 1933 and 1936.
The Erie Canal linked the Great Lakes with
a. Buffalo. b. the St. Lawrence River. c. New York City. d. The Cumberland Road.
Discuss the system of international relations that sprang up from the Eastern Mediterranean to Mesopotamia. Which issues and concerns predominated as these states interacted with one another, and how did they resolve or attempt to prevent conflict in the region?
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