Adam Smith's four-stage theory
a. gave philosophical justification to a European sense of superiority.
b. implied that the highest historical stage of society was an age of mass consumption.
c. favored the role of farmers and agriculture in economic life.
d. suggested that all societies follow different paths of social and economic development.
a
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a. They were able to find refuge in nunneries. b. They were immune because of herbs taken in conjunction with pregnancy. c. They were restricted to homes as defined by social custom. d. They gained new employment opportunities. e. They were able to inherit large fortunes.
Which of the following statements is true in regard to the history of the Mexica?
a. The sun needed regular offerings of "precious water." b. Top Aztec officials came from a royal family. c. The Aztec wrote on bark or deerskin covered with a limestone plaster. d. The Nahua writing system served as a trigger to memory. e. All of these choices.
Israel defeated the Arab states in 1948 because
a. Israel had a larger population from which to raise an army. b. the Arabs suffered from internal divisions. c. the Arabs could not agree about the necessity to defend the Palestinians. d. United States troops fought side by side with the Israelis. e. Israel successfully occupied the Sinai Desert at the beginning of the conflict.
Immediately following World War I, the American economy
A. boomed for many months. B. fell into a deflationary spiral. C. fell into a protracted recession. D. was marked by a continuing labor shortage. E. saw prices plunge.