Nationwide standardization of time became a necessity for which of the following reasons?
a. In the event of a national emergency, the military needed to be assured of a regularity of time from place toplace
b. Railroad scheduling required that there be a regularity of time from place to place.
c. Monetary transactions undertaken by the nation's leading financial institutions required a regularity of timefrom place to place.
d. The transfer of raw materials to factories and finished products to consumers requires a regularity of timefrom place to place.
b
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A) science B) theology C) philosophy D) literature E) art
Isaac Newton was son of a
a. yeoman farmer. b. high-ranking noble. c. wealthy London merchant. d. village day-laborer. e. minister in the Anglican Church.
Under Stalin, peasants who refused to give up their land and work on collective farms were
a. Executed for treason b. Sent to Siberia c. Drafted into the army d. Ignored e. Forced to work in factories
Why did European states invent moral justifications for violently seizing other peoples' land?
A. their view of themselves as modern and civilized B. in recognition of one of the tenets of Social Superiority theory C. in attempting to apply the theory of ethnocentrism D. None of these answers is correct.