All of these statements about the Rig-Veda are true EXCEPT:
a. It appears to be the oldest of the Vedas, dating to an oral tradition passed down from priest to priest until after 1400 CE.
b. It contains more than a thousand verses.
c. It maintains that the Aryans descended from a matriarchal society somewhere near the Black Sea.
d. It depicts a society broken down into four social divisions or varnas: priests, warriors, merchants, and commoners.
c. It maintains that the Aryans descended from a matriarchal society somewhere near the Black Sea.
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Advocates of the "New South"
A. discouraged white women from working outside of the home. B. promoted southern industry and railroad development. C. opposed using northern capital. D. challenged the assumptions of white supremacy. E. in fact advocated a return to the plantation system of the antebellum South.
The Jefferson administration bought Louisiana from the government headed by ________, whose efforts to dominate the European continent would later infringe on U.S. neutral rights.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Female activists used which of the following expectations of gender to justify social activism?
a. Women were expected to produce wages for the purpose of family stability, and slavery drove wages down b. Women were some of the most vocal supporters of manifest destiny and many feared that slave holders were consuming too much land in the West c. Women were expected to be the moral caretakers of the home and therefore it was their duty to speak out on moral issues d. Most teachers were women; therefore women were understood to be more educated than men. Because of this education, women spoke with authority on social issues
In the so-called "Compromise of 1877," Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to all of the following EXCEPT
A) withdrawal of federal enforcement of black voting rights in southern states. B) removal of remaining federal troops from the South. C) federal aid for a transcontinental railroad that would serve the South. D) appointment of a southern Democrat to his cabinet.