Which statement best describes the economic life of the Hellenistic world?
a. There was tremendous innovation in labor-saving machinery, as with the "Archimedean screw."
b. There was a significant shift in industry and manufacturing from Greece to the east.
c. There was little variety in products used for trading.
d. The use of slavery in manufacturing virtual disappeared.
e. Athenians controlled all economic activities.
b
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A) ?? Wartime pressures brought about a record number of strikes. B) ?? Unions died out as workers embraced a new spirit of cooperation, communalism, and patriotism. C) ?? In an effort to ensure ideological conformity and to prevent dissent, the War Labor Board generally pursued anti-labor policies. D) ?? Union membership nearly doubled during the war. E) ?? Because of the booming wartime economy and a shortage of male workers, most workers were required to work twelve-hour days.
In what way was Taft more of a conservationist than Roosevelt?
A) He opposed Ballinger's sale of millions of acres of public land. B) He opposed Ballinger's sale of Alaskan land to coal companies. C) He instituted the nation's first recycling program. D) He was a vegetarian and opposed to hunting animals. E) He conserved more public land than his predecessor.
Examine Map 6.3, Early societies of Oceania, 1500 B.C.E.-700 C.E. How were the inspirations for exploration and colonization linked to the geography of the area? Discuss the role played by the Austronesians in this process.
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Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election, in part because
A. he both failed to carry the South and maintained close connections to the oil industry. B. of his close connections to the oil industry. C. he failed to carry the South. D. All these answers are correct. E. of a financial scandal within his campaign.