What is some of the archaeological evidence for the decline of the Harappan society between 1900-1750 B.C.E.?
What will be an ideal response?
In your answer, briefly describe some of the physical signs of urban decay and decreased civic wealth that appear in the archaeological record. What is the most surprising find from this period?
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The ideology of revolutionary republicanism
A) originated in the struggle of American colonists against imperial despotism. B) borrowed ideas from English political thought and Enlightenment theories. C) reflected common colonial interests and experiences. D) provided a coherent doctrine to which all colonists could subscribe.
Which of the following is NOT an effect that Confucianism had on Chinese culture?
a. Thanks to Confucianism, elite Chinese culture was essentially nonreligious in character. b. The Confucian-based examination system allowed some social mobility for talented young men who were able to afford an education. c. Confucianism stressed that emperors should rule justly and provide for the material needs of their people. d. Confucianism encouraged individualistic and natural behavior among the elite.
Which of the following was the most mobile in the 1920s?
A) the professional classes B) the middle classes C) the wealthy D) the poor
Martin Luther King Jr. rose to leadership in the civil rights movement during the 1950s. His strategies, different from those of the recent past, would become the primary techniques of the civil rights movement into the 1960s. What is the most accurate summary of this transition in the movement?
A. King's rhetorical skills on TV, rather than organized action, caught the nation's attention. B. Direct and often violent confrontation replaced nonviolent passive resistance. C. King proposed nonviolent confrontation instead of solely relying on the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts. D. King appealed directly to President Eisenhower to lend his support to efforts to speed up desegregation.