Why were many medieval Jews money lenders?
A) They were the wealthiest members of a society.
B) They were forbidden from owning land or slaves and were excluded from guilds. There was no other choice.
C) It was the profession of their heritage and they were honoring their ancestors.
D) Trade was necessary for any society to exist and this was a way to facilitate trade.
E) They were the most trusted members of society.
B
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When Queen Liliuokalani wanted "Hawaii for the Hawaiians," she meant
A) all Americans had to leave the islands. B) native culture must be preserved. C) the name Hawaii must never change. D) the majority of economic and political power should be held by Native Hawaiians and not Americans.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.More informationwill be exchanged and stored in a community of 100 people than in a community of 1 million people. 2.The power of Collective Learning should be expected to increase wherever there are direct incentives to innovate or seek out new information. 3.The shadowy beginnings of the millennium-long process of weaving new and larger exchange networks that would eventually reach across the entire worldis a process known as monopolization. 4.Even in a world whose energy came from recent photosynthesis, mobilizing resources was a significant matter of innovative technologies. 5.In the early global exchange networks, information often traveled less well thancommodities or people or diseases.
During the Later Han's decline in the second century C.E., many peasants turned to
a. Neo-Daoist religious movements. b. Confucianism. c. their landlords for support. d. None of these answers are correct.
In Spain's New World Empire,
A. Spanish colonials were much less harsh toward American natives than the law allowed. B. the encomienda policies insured only a 2 percent profit per year to each Spanish investor. C. the number of natives on the island of Hispaniola increased between 1493 and 1570. D. the king was determined to convert the indigenous peoples to Christianity. E. the native Americans eagerly and consistently embraced Spanish colonial policies.