What was true about the Silk Road?
a. It was built for military defense against would-be Asian invaders.
b. It stimulated diplomacy between Rome and China.
c. It helped make silk widely popular among wealthy Roman women.
d. It led to an increase in banditry and crime for merchants.
e. It had the unintended consequences of sparking the collapse of the Roman Empire.
c
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What were the primary concerns of the sans-culottes?
A. food and price controls B. rights to political representation C. security and free trade D. the abolition of serfdom
Which of the following statements was NOT true of women according to Hammurabi and his code of law?
A) Women could initiate divorce. B) Women could enter into a contract. C) A woman could gain custody of her children. D) Men had power over women. E) Women could purchase and own property.
Guilds declined for all of the following reasons except that
A) they were abolished in revolutionary France and restricted in Britain. B) guild training was not needed for factory work. C) they sponsored a number of unsuccessful and politically damaging revolts. D) their efforts to protect their members from exploitation were seen as hindering technological and economic development. E) they were seen as a threat to free trade and free flow of labor.
English model of conquest and slaughter did not begin in the Americas. The precedent was set in
A. Iceland and Greenland. B. the Cape region at the southern tip of Africa. C. islands off the West African coast. D. Ireland.