Confucius believed that
a. government should be run by men of superior learning and culture.
b. the welfare of the common people mattered little in politics.
c. "might made right" so morality was whatever the strong said.
d. politics was unimportant and people should focus on personal salvation.
a
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Which is not considered a factor of decline under the emperors Diocletian and Constantine?
A. Reunification of the Eastern and Western halves of the empire. B. Making certain professions hereditary. C. Increasing the military and civil service. D. Enlargement of private estates at the loss of small farmers. E. Constantine's adoption of religious toleration.
The colonization of New Zealand, Australia, and Hawaii during the nineteenth century was most similar to the colonization of
a) the Philippine Islands in the sixteenth century b) North America in the seventeenth century c) India in the eighteenth century d) China in the nineteenth century
Before writing The Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie had made his fortune in __________
A) electric power generation B) railroads C) steel production D) banking
During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to
A. free black Southerners. B. Southerners who moved north. C. white Southerners who still embraced their former affiliation with the Confederacy. D. Southern white Republicans. E. Northerners who moved south.