Why did pharaohs often marry their closest relatives?

a. To guarantee the dynasty would remain in the same family line
b. To avoid upsetting the gods
c. To heighten their status with the people
d. To unite with those sharing their divine status
e. To follow the rules of the high priests


d

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What happened in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War?

A) Filipino resistance fighters fought a protracted and bloody guerrilla war against United States rule. B) American agricultural producers, hoping to establish a tariff against Filipino products, engineered quick independence for the former Spanish colony. C) Filipino patriots petitioned the United States Congress for annexation and statehood. D) The United States imposed military rule and announced that self-government could not be granted until the Philippines had achieved economic self-sufficiency. E) Civil war erupted between nationalist paramilitary groups and Spanish landowners.

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Which piece of New Deal legislation established the principle of federal responsibility for social welfare and created the basic framework for the welfare system?

A) Wagner Act B) Revenue Act of 1935 C) Social Security Act D) Hatch Act E) Federal Securities Act

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The deducing of religious conclusions from nature is __________.

A. empiricism B. transubstantiation C. physico-theology D. geocentrism

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