According to Mencius, a ruler who abused or neglected his subjects upset the social order and ______________.
a. The natural tendency of people toward revolt.
b. The natural tendency of people toward self-enlightenment.
c. The natural tendency of people toward good.
d. The natural tendency of people toward social advancement.
c. The natural tendency of people toward good.
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South America
A. was the original home of the Maya. B. contained societies practicing irrigated farming approximately eleven thousand years ago. C. has had human inhabitants for more than twelve thousand years. D. was populated only as recently as 500 C.E. E. was colonized from Africa rather than Asia.
The French Revolution
a. was precipitated by a noble-bourgeois dispute over the best way to deal with the large budgetary surpluses of 1788 and 1789. b. actually had no real impact on either the economic or political status of peasants. c. created no major gains, even temporarily, for women in such areas as divorce and inheritance. d. created a "nation in arms" and an army of 650,000. e. failed in its attempt to restore divine right monarchy to France.
Who among the following did NOT have a territorial claim on the territory of Oregon?
A) The British B) The Americans C) The Spanish D) The Dutch E) The Russians
In the years since the nations of Africa attained independence
A. economic wealth, but not social equality, has been achieved in all of Africa except the Republic of South Africa. B. most of the early pluralistic governments have been replaced by military regimes and one-party states. C. the goal of economic prosperity has been broadly achieved. D. social equality has become the norm. E. communism has taken permanent root in a majority of the nations south of the Sahara.