In the past decade, Vladimir Putin has done all of the following except:
a. Encouraged a resurgent nationalism, a desire to restore the country to its former imperial greatness.
b. De-nationalized state enterprises and created a comprehensive market economy.
c. Sharply curtailed basic civil rights and restricted press freedoms.
d. Provoked former Soviet republics into conflicts with Russia.
b. De-nationalized state enterprises and created a comprehensive market economy.
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Although petitions were often for individual, practical needs,
A) later petitions sought to overthrow the government. B) later petitions sought legislative change. C) later petitioners seceded from the Union. D) some women sought to reinstate slavery in the North.
Characteristics of Bedouin society include which of the following?
a. Patriarchal tribes. b. Men had the right to divorce a wife by a simple declaration of separation. c. Women could only divorce an impotent husband. d. Men were charged with the honor of their daughters. e. All of these choices.
Which statement best describes how immigrants responded to the pressure to become "Americanized"?
a. They continued to read foreign-language newspapers, but over the course of a lifetime adjusted to American customs. b. They wanted as little change as possible and refused to make any adjustments to American life. c. They were willing to learn English, but they did not want their children to learn it. d. They quickly shed their immigrant past and blended neatly into mainstream American culture.
Which of these characteristics distinguished civilizations of the Americas from those of Europe and Asia?
A) greater isolation B) lack of towns C) failure to develop complex societies D) lack of trade