Which of the following statements is true?
a. Today, all of Africa's 2,000 languages have a written form.
b. No language spoken south of the Sahara was written down before 1800.
c. Languages north of the Sahara were not written down until the spread of Islam.
d. Local languages predominate in Islamic regions.
e. Nubian accounts for the base of most languages spoken in Africa.
b
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Between 1890 and 1914, family patterns among the working class
A) emphasized child labor as an important necessity for family survival. B) required all women to work outside the home. C) allowed for dependence on the income of husbands and the wages of grown children. D) experienced almost no change from the earlier industrial period. E) were shaped by growing rates of infant mortality.
The first post-colonial state in Latin America was
a. Haiti b. Mexico c. Argentina d. Brazil e. Dominican Republic
Why was China victimized by European imperialists?
A) A weak emperor without an army allowed the influx of Europeans into China. B) The empire was too unwieldy to be well controlled with the influx of imperialists and resistance was not organized. C) She was cut apart due to lack of support for the governing empress Hsu. D) China was too small to fight the overwhelming imperialist forces. E) Internal dissent was taken advantage of and the country was split apart along those lines and region by region depending upon the resources available.