Which of the following best describes the Upanishads?
A) poetic musings about the Aryan history
B) philosophical musings and speculations about life
C) historic chronicles of the development of Aryan civilization
D) a series of poems dealing with the three main Hindu gods
E) part of the Mahabharata, the world's longest poem
B
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Which of the following fits the description of a person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England?
a. a single young woman whose attractiveness meant that some saw her as a threat to Puritan values b. a married woman who normally was subservient to her husband and the community, which made her behavior seem all the more bizarre c. a widow who presumably was too lonely or too dependent on the community to be taken seriously, but who had to be tried and convicted to keep others from thinking similarly d. a married woman who had just lost a child e. a woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband
The first known goddess in history is Inanna, whom the Mesopotamians believed was the goddess of
a. destruction b. war c. love d. law e. the Tigris
Social Darwinism was an ideology that had its critics, but it did have a lot to do with the realities of the late nineteenth-century corporate economy.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Of the foreign merchant communities in Guangzhou (Canton) in 879 C.E., the largest was
a. Buddhist. b. Christian. c. Muslim. d. Jewish.