Following the First Punic War, Sicily was settled as a province, meaning __________.
A. Sicilians paid tribute rather than served in the Roman army
B. Sicilians needed passports to visit the mainland
C. Romans retained the right to Sicilian marble
D. Sicilians could maintain self-governance
Answer: A
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The beginnings of civilization in China were
a. delayed by the marauding raids of the Xia. b. under the political organization of the Qin. c. the result of a concentrated development of Kunming bureaucratic arrangements. d. came from the Shang dynasty's exploitation of the nomads. e. possibly first experienced under the Xia dynasty.
In the preindustrial system, a boy who wanted to learn a trade __________
A) was trained in an industrial school B) became an apprentice to a master craftsman C) would learn from an older family member D) would have to teach himself
Which of the following is true of government military contracts during the Second World War?
A. They greatly enriched neighborhood enterprises. B. They were equally distributed among all businesses. C. They were awarded to companies with the lowest profit margin and the highest research and development expenditures. D. Most were awarded to the nation's top one hundred corporations.
What surprised Richard Arkwright about his Cromford Mill spinning works once it was up and running?
a) It was so efficient he would need only about 20 percent of the workers he had expected to employ. b) While the factory produced good cloth, it was much more expensive to make because of the machinery Arkwright used. Consider This: Arkwright commented that “One person will spin a Thousand Hanks a Day. . . .” See 7.1.2: The Industrial Countryside. c) The factory produced cheap cloth, but Arkwright found he was more heavily taxed for putting people out of work. Consider This: Arkwright commented that “One person will spin a Thousand Hanks a Day. . . .” See 7.1.2: The Industrial Countryside. d) Arkwright discovered how difficult it was to get workers to agree to the long hours required by the factory. Consider This: Arkwright commented that “One person will spin a Thousand Hanks a Day. . . .” See 7.1.2: The Industrial Countryside.