Which of the following would ease the strain on Social Security and Medicare as the population ages in the early twenty-first century?
a) increasing taxes
b) expanding benefits
c) lowering the retirement age
d) raising pensions
a) increasing taxes
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In the section on Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt, it is suggested that Egypt is connected with what region in addition to North and East Africa?
a) the trade and cultural networks of the Mediterranean Sea b) the Indian Ocean trade routes to the Indus River valley civilizations c) the Atlantic Ocean routes to the Americas d) a complex series of roadways connecting Africa with ancient China
The chapter introduction relates the story of the "World's Columbian Exposition" to make the point that
A. the 1890s marked a return to a more stable political and social order after the upheavals of the previous two decades. B. American society and the world had been transformed by the industrial revolution. C. by the 1890s, politicians from the South and the West were winning national office more regularly than easterners. D. a political revolution in the 1890s undermined the longstanding power of the Republican party.
Regular police forces and prison reform were geared toward
A) the creation of more disciplined and law-abiding societies. B) appeasing the public outcry against the barbarism of the ordeal and the rack. C) protecting the poor from exploitation by rich businessmen. D) adding an element of fear to society for psychological manipulation of mass populations. E) ensuring the continuance of oligarchic government.
Which of these statements about humans and hominids is correct?
A) All hominids are humans. B) Most hominids are humans. C) All humans are hominids. D) Hominids are similar to humans.