What custom was common for widows, especially in northern India?
a. remarriage
b. opening up their own businesses
c. entering Buddhist monasteries
d. sati, ritual suicide
e. fleeing their village and changing their names
d
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A) scurvy B) storms C) drowning D) hostile natives E) smallpox
Which of the following was not a characteristic of Shang civilization?
a. inscriptions on oracle bones b. use of iron weapons c. a rigidly stratified society d. a mastery of bronze technology
The term Reconstruction referred to
A) the work to incorporate Western states into the Union. B) the work to reform Confederate leadership. C) the work to find new employment for former slaves. D) the work to remake both the South and the Union. E) the work to negotiate a treaty between the North and South.
Looking at the figure "World population totals and distribution," which of these fluctuated most dramatically from 1000 to 2000 as a proportion of world population?
A) Asia B) Africa C) the Americas D) Oceania