Provisions related to business transactions in the Code of Hammurabi indicate that in ancient Mesopotamia
a. the king depended on merchants for his power.
b. capitalism already existed.
c. merchants were generally from ostracized ethnic groups.
d. trade was important to Mesopotamian life.
e. the economy depended heavily on agriculture.
d
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What will be an ideal response?
From the American Revolution to the Civil War, the proportion of wealth controlled by the richest 10 percent of Americans in the northern states
A) was about the same as it is today. B) decreased. C) remained about the same. D) increased.
The text states that early modern Europe was comparable to an underdeveloped country today in that
a. elites were reluctant to invest abroad. b. the church still controlled about one-third of the land. c. there was a wide gap between a small, wealthy elite, and the general population, which was quite poor. d. nationalism had not yet developed. e. it was tied to tradition and lacked dynamism.
What was black journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett referring to when she declared that "A Winchester rifle should have a place of honour in every black home, and it should be used for the protection which the law refuses to give"?
A) resistance to lynch mobs B) boycotts of white-owned railroads C) desegregation of public facilities D) overturning of Jim Crow laws that denied voting rights to blacks