What was the Code of Manu?
a. a legal document advising kings and formalizing caste rules
b. a religious document, one of the Upanishads
c. a statement of Buddhist principles by Ashoka
d. one of the schools of classical Indian thought
e. a declaration of war by Chandragupta Maurya
a
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What was one of the weaknesses of the consumer goods economy?
a. Mass production resulted in the depletion of crucial natural resources. b. Labor disputes disrupted the production process and damaged economic growth. c. The quality of the goods that were produced was substandard. d. It led to the spread of national supermarket and department store chains. e. The production of so-called durable goods eventually decreased demand.
Which of the following influenced many of the thinkers in the Scientific Revolution?
A) Aristotelian science B) Ptolemaic model C) Christian theology D) Neoplatonic ideas
The First International
A) failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital. B) became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century. C) was rejected by Marx as a "bourgeois-dominated institution." D) served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests. E) led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848.
Which reform by Yoshimune was NOT successful?
a. Controls on interest rates b. Cultivation of sugar and ginseng c. Increased attention to products from the sea that provided food and fertilizer d. Involvement of the government in commerce e. Finding plants that would grow in marginal areas to increase food supplies