Which of the following describes the relationship between kings and priests in the Sumerian city-states?
A) Kings and priests competed with one another for scarce resources.
B) Kings and priests collaborated with one another to control the population.
C) Kings controlled priests.
D) Priests controlled kings.
B
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Why was Josef Stalin so concerned about the Marshall Plan?
a) He worried that small countries he coveted, like Czechoslovakia, might join the Marshall Plan’s Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC). b) He was angry that the Soviet Union was too impoverished by the war to make a similar gesture. Consider This: Stalin’s last major expansion in 1948 marked the final rupture between communist and capitalist Europe. See 14.2.2: Completing the Split. c) He was already planning to begin the Third World War. Consider This: Stalin’s last major expansion in 1948 marked the final rupture between communist and capitalist Europe. See 14.2.2: Completing the Split. d) He was deeply insulted by Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech. Consider This: Stalin’s last major expansion in 1948 marked the final rupture between communist and capitalist Europe. See 14.2.2: Completing the Split.
Which of the following statements is not correct about the role of women in India today?
A. Female children are less likely to be educated than are their male counterparts. B. There is a more positive attitude toward female education and employment. C. Gender relationships in urban India have been affected by the consequences of independence. D. Traditional domestic behavior is still an accepted part of Indian female deportment. E. Rural Indian women often have greater advantages than urban women.
Which accomplishment did the Portuguese achieve before other European nations?
A) rounding the Cape of Good Hope
B) sailing around Alaska
C) the discovery of the New World
D) reaching Antarctica
Among the accomplishments of Radical Reconstruction were all the following except:
A. setting up the beginnings of state school systems.
B. repairing some of the physical damage of the Civil War.
C. relieving the freedmen from continued economic dependence on whites.
D. rewriting state constitutions, introducing universal male suffrage, and instituting a more equitable apportionment of the legislatures.