What aspect of Megasthenes' description of Indian society is puzzling to modern-day analysts?
a. Buddhists seem to be a small number in Indian society.
b. Farmer-merchants were the largest group in society.
c. The caste system seemed more open than typically described in other historical sources.
d. Farmers were exempt from military service.
e. The king's closest advisers included religious officials.
c
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A) women should be kept in the home to improve men's chances of finding work. B) men and women did not possess different natures. C) Parliament should admit women members immediately. D) female convicts should be shipped out to colonize Australia. E) God and nature had ordained the permanent inferiority of women.
What was the first nation to allow “abortion on request,” in 1973?
a. Great Britain b. Denmark c. Norway d. Canada e. The U.S.S.R.
The United States was forced to rely on the regular army and a military draft in fighting the Spanish-American War.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A large plantation that produced commercial crops for the international market was called a(n)
A) latifundia. B) pomerium. C) imperium. D) optimate. E) honorum.