A decisive event in the history of Brazilian slavery was
A) the Anglo-Brazilian Treaty of 1830.
B) the Queiroz anti-slave-trade law of 1850.
C) the decline of the sugar-growing Northeast after 1850.
D) the growing prosperity of the coffee-growing zone after 1850.
B
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Before Napoleon produced the Napoleonic Code, French law __________.
A. was based on church law B. varied from region to region C. resembled English common law D. lacked rules governing women and the family
The 1783 Treaty of Paris included all of the following provisions EXCEPT
a. British recognition of American independence. b. establishment of the boundaries of the new United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River between the Great Lakes and Spanish Florida. c. British collection of prewar American debts. d. guaranteed freedom for slaves who served the British cause. e. restoration of confiscated property to Loyalists.
According to Inca tradition, King Pachakuti redesigned Cuzco, a project that took twenty years and thirty thousand labor conscripts known as
A. wak'a. B. ayllu. C. quipu. D. mit'a.
The term Sinification refers to which of the following?
A. the process by which Chinese rulers adopted Roman customs to emulate Roman imperial success B. the process by which Confucianism came to replace Daoism C. the process by which Chinese culture and customs spread as the Han expanded their empire D. the process by which Chinese merchants joined the ranks of the aristocracy