What best describes Russian society in the seventeenth century?
a. It witnessed the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
b. It witnessed profound religious reforms in the Russian Orthodox church.
c. It was highly stratified, with the tsar and landed aristocrats at the top and peasants bound to the land at the bottom.
d. It saw the rise of the merchant class to power.
e. It saw the end of serfdom and the emergence of a prosperous free peasantry.
c
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A. Ai Wei-wei B. Mo Yan C. Yu Hua D. Ding Ling E. Zhang Xinxin
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A) impose a national hierarchy on women's clubs. B) get the most out of local clubs. C) run the clubs formed at the local level. D) bring local women to national prominence.
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A) W. E. B. Du Bois. B) George White. C) Theodore Roosevelt. D) Mary Church Terrell.