The development of mining technology resulted in __________
A) less use of skilled labor
B) much higher wages for mine workers
C) economic depression in the West
D) fewer deaths on the job
Answer: A
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Perhaps no era has had a longer lasting legacy on the course of world history than the period from roughly 500 B.C.E. to 100 C.E
, with thinkers like Confucius, Aristotle, and Gautama Siddhartha and the empires of Alexander the Great, Asoka, and Augustus (Rome) reaching their peak. Surprisingly, there is little direct correlation between two phenomena. As a result, historians tend to divide this period thematically into two different ages: the axial age of great thinkers, religions, and philosophies and the age of powerful empires. Historians give the two processes different labels to accentuate the different styles of transformations taking place. Selecting several examples from each age (and diverse geographic centers), discuss what factors typified the rise of these two ages, and offer your own speculation on why they are not more closely interrelated.
____ became a vital axis of world trade, with Chinese merchants exchanging spices and luxury goods such as porcelain there for Spanish silver from the Americas.
a. Bombay. b. Guangzhou. c. Manila. d. Tokyo.
By 1890, the Sioux and other reservation Indians
a. were rapidly adapting to a capitalist, agrarian lifestyle. b. had achieved full U.S. citizenship and equal rights. c. were reduced to lives of poverty, depression, and alcoholism. d. were profiting from the discovery of oil on their ancestral lands. e. were working in large numbers for the mining industry.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. According to Risman, women and men are coerced into different social roles and gendered paths. 2. If men and women see themselves as similarly situated, the social structure is not experienced as oppressive. 3. Barbara Risman argues that theory should be used in the service of social change. 4. Human action can turn against social structure, and in doing so, can escape from structure altogether. 5. When women and men with feminist identities work in organizations with formally gender-neutral rules, gender inequality is reproduced during everyday interaction.