In a ____ system, people inherit property from their mothers or from their mother's brothers

a. matrilineal descent
b. ambilineal descent
c. patrilineal descent
d. cognate


a

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The woman-woman marriage custom found in sub-Saharan Africa is associated with all of the following except:

a. enables a woman without sons to inherit a share of her husband's property. b. confers legitimacy on the children of a woman who had been unable to find a husband. c. enables the woman who adopts a male identity to raise her status. d. enables the woman who is the wife of the female husband to raise her status and live a more secure life. e. enables the women to engage in sexual activity with each other.

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You are handed another manuscript and told it comes from Rome. It doesn’t seem to be a play but rather a description of how a play ought to be written. You know at once that it is a work by:

a. Plautus b. Terence c. Seneca d. Horace e. Vitruvius

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Tetonius provides evidence that early primates relied on eyesight more than the sense of smell

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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A process of cultural change in which a population tends toward a nonreligious worldview is called:

a. desecration. b. reaction. c. syncretism. d. secularization. e. revitalization.

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