What social, political and economic factors in Japanese society helped it to Westernize and modernize more rapidly and more successfully than China?

What will be an ideal response?


The role of merchants and the military, openness to assimilating new ideas, greater homogeneity and nationalistic sense all need to be covered here.

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Identify a true statement about body image.

A. Women are more strongly invested in their physical appearance than men are. B. Men are more dissatisfied with their bodies than women are. C. The levels of body dissatisfaction vary significantly for White, Asian American, and Hispanic women. D. The concerns associated with body image begin in adulthood for men.

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The Incas resembled the ____ because they treated many of their enemies gently if they surrendered

a. Mayas. b. Mongols. c. Ottomans. d. Ming dynasty. e. Jurchens.

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In the fourth century c.e., the head of the Ethiopian Christian church was appointed by

a. the pope. b. the patriarch of Alexandria. c. the Ethiopian prime minister. d. the Episcopal Council. e. the College of Cardinals.

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The Hyde Amendment did which of the following?

a. Prohibited Medicaid funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or if the life of the mother is endangered. b. Prohibited Medicaid funding for abortion under any circumstance. c. Prohibited abortion past the sixth week of pregnancy. d. Prohibited abortion for married women without their husbands’ consent.

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