Which of the following is NOT true of industries in fifteenth-century Italy?
A) Italian cities expanded luxury industries involving precious stones and glassware.
B) New techniques for digging deeper mines helped spur the development of larger mining operations.
C) The Florentine woolen industry never recovered from the economic depression of the fourteenth century.
D) New skills in metalworking contributed to the development of more effective firearms.
E) Printing was among the new industries that grew dramatically in importance.
C
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A) anticolonialism. B) national self-determination. C) anticommunism. D) European imperialism.
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Lyotard's theory of Postmodernism stated what belief about knowledge?
A) People and groups acquire knowledge to satisfy desire, rather than produce knowledge by the use of reason B) People retrieve knowledge as a means of justifying representations in narratives they have constructed. C) People and groups produce knowledge to satisfy desire, rather than acquiring knowledge by the use of reason. D) People adhere to "produced" knowledge even in the face of reason as a means to prevent deviation from societal norms. E) Knowledge can be produced to upset traditional beliefs in a society, but will not be believed unless accepted by the less marginalized.