How did West African conceptions of land ownership differ from European ones?
a. West Africans did not believe that individual farmers could own or sell the products of the land they farmed.
b. West Africans believed that land was the collective possession of a state or kinship group.
c. West Africans believed that land must be continuously redistributed to ensure that each adult man had his own plot.
d. West Africans believed that individual ownership of land was an inviolable right.
b. West Africans believed that land was the collective possession of a state or kinship group.
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a. occupation of the Rhineland in 1935. b. German seizure of Libya in 1935. c. two-stage takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939. d. union with Austria. e. formation of the Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact.
The nascent Irish revolution led by the Volunteer Movement ended quickly because
A) of the swift and overwhelming military response by the British. B) traditional Celtic pacifism prevailed. C) of the granting of greater parliamentary autonomy by the British and the Irish elite's own fear of the Catholic population. D) French intervention provoked a backlash. E) the Volunteer Movement took over the government.
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