The Chinese word guanhua means
a. "official speech".
b. "chaos".
c. "harmony".
d. "Middle Kingdom".
A
You might also like to view...
The power of the House of Commons lay in its ability to
A) tax the nobles. B) control royal spending. C) remove the king. D) appeal directly to the people of England. E) all of the above.
Under Ronald Reagan, the United States was able to help sustain a Vietnam-like war that long embroiled Soviet forces in
a. Angola. b. Uzbekistan. c. Turkmenistan. d. Kazakhstan. e. Afghanistan.
By the end of the seventeenth century,
A) international trade was much greater than intra-European trade. B) wealth was being transferred back to the New World from Europe in the form of raw materials. C) local, regional, and intra-European trade was considerably greater than international trade. D) slavery was in decline in both Africa and the New World. E) European imperialism had come to an end.
The consolidation and coherence of Austria was accomplished by all of the following except
A) the Thirty Years’ War had strengthened the Habsburgs in their own land. B) political and institutional changes had been made to accommodate the diverse cultures inside the empire. C) Bohemian lands achieved during the Thirty Years’ War were distributed among loyal Austrian families. D) a strong political, military, and economic system still thrived in Vienna. E) support from the papacy.