Which of the following is a valid observation about the social practices in the societies of traditional Southeast Asia?
a. Female rulers dominated life in almost all villages.
b. Southeast Asian women had more rights than Indian and Chinese women.
c. In the Indianized states, Hinduism produced the rigid adoption of the caste system.
d. Malay societies employed the democratic practice of electing their kings.
e. Southeast Asian women had fewer rights than the women of India.
b
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