____ reaped the greatest benefit from the land policies of the headright system
a. Indentured servants
b. African slaves
c. Merchant planters
d. New England colonists
e. Slave owners
c
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Serbian leader __________ was finally removed from power in 2000.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What was the Comintern?
A. the nickname for Communist International B. the world's first telecom system C. the term for cooperation between political interns D. the twentieth-century version of a colonial power
Most Chinese men who came to California paid for their travel by
a. using their life savings and contributions from family and friends in return for a promise to return to pay back the money they owed. b. working as cooks, laundrymen and in other menial labor on the ships. c. indenturing themselves to Chinese companies who sold their labor to Chinese mining operations. d. indenturing themselves to work in the port towns, mainly San Francisco and Stockton, before they could head for the gold fields.
Which of the following is not one of the purposes of the fourfold compilation of the Corpus Juris Civilis, "body of civil law"?
A. the Code, which revised imperial edicts issues since the reign of Hadrian B. the Pope was consulted before laws were made governing religion, dating back to 313 C. the Novellae or "new things," which presented the decrees issued by Justinian and his immediate predecessors since 534 D. the Digest, which gathered the major opinions of the old legal experts E. to put into the hands of young scholars a practical textbook