The Texas prison system became a major public issue in the early 1970s because __________
A. a federal judge ordered the state to greatly improve the deplorable and substandard conditions that existed in its prisons
B. there were lots of empty beds in most of the state’s prisons, keeping costs unnecessarily high
C. newspaper exposes of the abusive chain gang system had embarrassed state officials
D. capital punishment by firing squad seemed outdated and inhuman
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The Roman republic developed as an alternative to ________
A) monarchy B) dictators C) economic decline D) civil war
Isma'il declared his devotion to ________, the wing of Islamic belief and practice that was taking militant forms in Southwest Asia in the fifteenth century.
A. Sunni Islam B. Shi'ism C. Safavidism D. the Muslim Sufi association
The Hittites belong to what language family?
a. Semitic b. Indo-European c. Bantu d. Asiatic e. Sumerian
What conclusion could be drawn from the content of the state constitutions written in the 1770s?
What will be an ideal response?