Why are the ways a civilization thought, felt, and behaved not adequately conveyed by labels such as "Bronze Age"?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: "Civilization" is now a discredited word. People have abused it as a name for societies they approve of, which usually means societies that resemble their own. They have also denied the term to cultures they deem alien or lacking in material culture or institutions similar to their own. Or they have misapplied it as the name of a supposedly universal stage of social development, even though we have no evidence that societies follow any universal course of development.
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A) Herbert Hoover B) Grover Cleveland C) Rutherford B. Hayes D) William McKinley E) Theodore Roosevelt
What was the relationship between industrialization and urbanization in the early 1800s?
A) Urbanization was often the product of industrialization. B) Industrialization caused major urban areas to shrink. C) Both were the product of population expansion. D) Urbanization and industrialization both experienced a decline in the 1820s. E) Urbanization was initially hampered by industrialization.
The Olmec common people
A. lived a much more privileged life than their European counterparts did. B. enjoyed a basic democracy. C. were exclusively the subject of human sacrifice. D. lived alongside the elite in the major ceremonial centers. E. labored regularly on behalf of the Olmec elite.
The theology embraced by the philosophes was ________, a rational religion without fanaticism and intolerance
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).