Outline the British practice of tax farming and its effect on India
What will be an ideal response?
Where was this practice most common, and how did it advance British economic interests while undermining traditional societies?
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A) 1200 Linear B clay tablets were preserved by the fire. B) it cleared the way for Knossos to become the dominant power in Greece. C) slaves freed from Pylos led Greece into a golden age. D) several intact royal tombs have been found there. E) it definitively ended the Minoan period in Greece.
Zheng He and the ship captains serving under him navigated using all of the following EXCEPT
A. coastline maps. B. a compass. C. star charts. D. a sextant.
The popular figure of the 1920s who was rabidly anti-Semitic, and believed there was an international conspiracy of powerful Jews bent on destroying Christian civilization, was
a. Warren Harding. b. Henry Ford. c. A. Mitchell Palmer. d. Al Capone. e. Herbert Hoover.
The greatest triumph of American technology in the mid-nineteenth century was in the area of __________
A) improvements in the transportation infrastructure B) new uses for vulcanized rubber C) improved farm implements D) sophisticated machine tools E) more efficient farming strategies