Which of the following would explain the artist's decision to depict an exemplar moral and political virtue in Yan Liben's The Thirteen Emperors?
A. The Daoist ideal of retreat from society to attain wisdom in nature
B. The system of laws and belief set forth by the Chinese first emperor
C. The ideal of good government as seen in Gandharan India
D. The Confucian ideal of learning from the past to create an ordered society
Answer: D
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A. discouraging domestic theaters from playing films deemed to be critical of government policies. B. providing loans to production firms that submitted film scripts with an apolitical slant. C. banning members of the Italian Communist Party from working in communications industries, including the cinema. D. forbidding filmmakers from producing films based on Italy's role in the recent world war.
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A. linear equations B. trigonometry C. calculus D. geometry
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a) the World Saxophone Quartet. b) the Mingus Big Band. c) the Art Ensemble of Chicago. d) the Sun Ra Arkestra.