The special legal privileges of the European nobility included all of the following EXCEPT:
A) judgment by peers.
B) immunity from severe punishment.
C) exemptions from most forms of taxation.
D) guarantees against becoming poor.
E) access to military and civil offices.
D
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President Roosevelt described which of the following as "a date which will live in infamy?"
A. The date on which the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor B. The date on which the British and the French allowed Hitler to take the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia C. The date on which the Japanese army seized Manchuria D. The date on which Italy attacked Ethiopia
In his Two Treatises of Government Locke argued that
A. the monarch was placed on the throne by God and was, therefore, responsible only to God for his decisions and actions. B. human beings were innately bad. C. monarchs should be eliminated so that political power could rest directly in the hands of the people. D. the people could oust a ruler from power if he failed to protect their rights.
Unlike the pure serfdom of the servile manors, whose tenants had no original claim to be part of the land, the tenancy obligations on free manors tended to be _________, and the tenants' rights more carefully defined
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The beginnings of civilization in China were
a. delayed by the marauding raids of the Xia. b. begun under the political organization of the Qin. c. the result of a concentrated development of Kunming bureaucratic arrangements. d. came from the Shang dynasty's exploitation of the nomads. e. possibly first experienced under the Xia dynasty.