Why was the Ruhr area significant to the Germans?
A) The area was unjustly ceded to France in the Versailles Treaty.
B) The area was the symbolic heart of the German nation.
C) The area was the main agricultural sector of Germany.
D) The area was a buffer zone between Germany and Switzerland.
E) The area was Germany's heartland that produced coal and iron.
E
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The Shang elite were what part of society?
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A) was unwritten, like the English Constitution on which it was based. B) was King William's finest writing on the importance of liberty. C) divided power in England between the king and Parliament. D) was copied word for word into the U.S. Constitution a century later. E) listed parliamentary powers and individual rights such as trial by jury.
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