The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a literary work focusing upon
A) a group of English pilgrims who exchange stories on their way to visiting a cathedral.
B) the journey of Chaucer through paradise, purgatory, and hell.
C) the defense of the intellectual capacities of women.
D) a congeries of stories told by a cabal of upper class people who had fled their bubonic plague-infested town for the more healthful countryside.
E) the biographies of notable men whose lives are inspirational and worthy of emulation.
A
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A) textiles B) automobiles C) electrical manufacturing D) plastics
Intangible factors contributing to America's antebellum economic growth included the
A) steady issue of government patents for new tools and machines. B) rapid expansion of and improvement in transportation networks. C) entrepreneurial mentality and mechanical nature of most Americans. D) need to compensate for the continual shortage of labor and goods.
Irrigation in Iran was different than other areas because of the large desert plain. How did they compensate for this?
a. digging long canals to the few interior lakes for transportation of water to crops. b. vertical shafts provided access to underground irrigation. c. construction of the earliest known water wheels moved irrigation across long distances. d. they had no agriculture but relied solely on mineral resources. e. they built dams and reservoirs to capture the mid-summer monsoonal rains.
Early factory workers
A. were recruited from among the urban poor. B. came from rural areas. C. were almost all convicted criminals. D. were all adult men. E. found their work extremely rewarding.