Discuss how China’s geography fostered regionalism
What will be an ideal response?
First briefly describe the general features of Chinese geography, including size, mountain ranges, and kinds of water systems available? To what extent did these features either encourage or prohibit contact with other cultures, or even interaction within China itself? How did these interactions and limitations affect the development of Chinese culture? Is there a unified Chinese culture?
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A) received fewer chances to marry if divorced or widowed. B) pursued a daily routine less likely to overlap that of her husband's. C) enjoyed broader legal and property rights. D) married at an older age and bore fewer children.
President McKinley justified American acquisition of the Philippines primarily by emphasizing that
a. the need to take care of and Christianize the dispossessed, poor, and non-Christian Filipinos. b. the electoral success of the Republican party depended on their acquisition. c. the United States would gain key naval bases there. d. the Philippines were spoils of war and America's by right of conquest. e. there was no acceptable alternative to their acquisition.
The Vietnam War was a military, political, and social disaster, and the only war the United States has ever lost.
a. true b. false
Who was the second-century Greek-speaking scholar who proposed a geocentric, or earth-centered, model of the universe?
A. Brahe B. Copernicus C. Galileo D. Ptolemy