Among the major elements underlying the social crisis of the 1600s was
a. a steep economic decline in the Mediterranean region as silver imports from Spanish colonies declined.
b. a "little ice age" in the latter half of the 1200s, cutting food production and leading to famine.
c. a sharp European population increase after 1635 cut per capita food availability by one-half.
d. the increased gold imports from Africa, which led to serious economic inflation.
e. the onset of the White Death, a variant of the bubonic plague.
a
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How did big band swing music originate?
A) Using black gospel music as a base, whites then added complicated, individualized rhythms and more instruments to create big band swing. B) White bandleaders orchestrated innovative black music in creating the big band sound. C) Big band was actually a white innovation and blacks fed off its popularity to develop jazz and the blues. D) The government had underwritten music programs for blacks to develop new music.
Joint stock companies were an example of ________
A) capitalism B) laissez-faire C) mercantilism D) a moral economy
The English parliamentary reports on the cities
a. painted a better picture than that which existed. b. only began in the late nineteenth century. c. often read like novels describing the grinding poverty, filth, and stench. d. were dominated by the leaders of business. e. had little impact.