Which of the following was NOT a method used by missionaries to gain control over the indigenous population?
a. Making conversion an economic and political advantage by giving money to converts at trading posts.
b. Settling previously nomadic communities at permanent settlements near ports and trading posts.
c. Favoring converted Indians through trade and military alliances.
d. Absolving all converts of sin and teaching them to be proud of their culture and heritage.
a
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What was the impact of intensive agriculture on the peasants whose farming fed the populations of the emerging state societies?
a. New materials made tools that enabled them to earn more money for themselves. b. Specialization led to more sophisticated engineering and better homes for them. c. The invention of writing permitted more accurate accounts of their work and taxes paid. d. Peasants were the group who received the greatest benefits from intensive agriculture.
Which of the following statements about chimpanzee call systems is NOT true?
A. They consist of a limited number of sounds. B. Like language, they include displacement and cultural transmission. C. They consist of sounds that vary in intensity and duration. D. Calls cannot be combined when multiple stimuli are present. E. They are stimuli dependent.
The stone tools found in Neanderthal cave sites date from 130,000 to 35,000 years ago and are referred to as Mousterian, after Le Mousteier, the person who discovered them
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Who focused on religion's explanatory role and argued that religion would eventually disappear as science provided better explanations?
A. Claude Lévi-Strauss B. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor C. Margaret Mead D. Sir E. E. Evans-Pritchard E. Bronislaw Malinowski