Which of these legal concepts were developed by the Romans?
a. Dependent rights
b. Equal rights
c. Natural rights
d. Royal rights
e. Fiscal rights
c
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Which states banned any form of black enlistment?
A) South Carolina and Georgia B) South Carolina and Florida C) Georgia and Alabama D) Maryland and Virginia
How did the Roman elite handle the problem of poverty?
a. Having learned from the Gracchi incidents, Rome periodically redistributed land to the landless. b. The Roman elite totally ignored the poor. c. Roman authorities encouraged the excess rural population to move to the cities in order to be retrained. d. The Roman elite bought off the urban poor by providing free bread and entertainment. e. Poverty was not a problem because the poor were regularly absorbed into the expanding armed forces.
Philip II Augustus of France accomplished all of the following except
A. he waged war successfully against the kings of England. B. he became the Holy Roman Emperor. C. he regained the provinces of Anjou, Normandy, and Aquitaine from the Plantagenets. D. he established a royal bureaucracy. E. he enlarged the power of the French monarchy.
Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South?
A. Most slaves who ran away did so to avoid punishment. B. A child of a slave could not be sold after he or she had reached three years of age. C. Blacks typically had weaker family ties than did whites, due to the uncertainties of their lives. D. Newly arrived slaves to a plantation were often shunned by the black community. E. Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.