The power of opium to suppress pain and hunger made it particularly attractive to the ____________ inhabitants of south China.
a. Non-native and temporary.
b. Wealthy and socially aspiring.
c. Middle-class and medically-trained.
d. Poor and ordinary.
d. Poor and ordinary.
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How well did the Soviets cooperate with the Americans during the war?
A) They refused to sign the Declaration of the United Nations of 1942. B) They shared a common commitment to defeating Hitler and seemed willing to cooperate on postwar problems. C) They reinstated the Comintern to promulgate world revolution. D) They cooperated only reluctantly and with great hesitation.
"Western imperialism was an inevitable consequence of the West's Scientific and Industrial Revolutions." Discuss and evaluate the persuasiveness and weaknesses of this statement.
What will be an ideal response?
Imperialism in Latin America usually followed which of the following forms?
a. threats from foreign powers b. direct control by European states c. a mixture of annexation and threats d. heavy economic investment by Europeans and Americans e. the French invasion of Mexico in 1867
One avenue for gaining freedom, __________, was taken away in 1667 when the Virginia House of Burgesses ruled this no longer conferred freedom upon slaves
A) self-purchase B) military service C) banishment D) conversion to Christianity