During the period of the Han dynasty, the population of China probably
a. doubled in size, but continued to be concentrated along the banks of the Yellow River.
b. remained relatively constant and gradually expanded to different regions of the growing empire.
c. decreased in size because of famine, warfare, and disease.
d. tripled in size and was often forced to migrate to different places in an expanding empire.
d
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a. Ilya Ehrenburg's The Thaw. b. Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago. c. Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don. d. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. e. Vyacheslav Molotov's My Wife's Imprisonment.
All of the following characterized the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlàn EXCEPT
A) it used Toltec architectural designs in designing a new and grander capital. B) it contained huge markets to exchange gold and jewelry, pottery and baskets, meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables. C) it was built on an island. D) it was not easy to defend from other belligerent American Indian tribes.
Most Americans in the 1880s __________
a. no longer held religious beliefs b. believed the school was the center of life c. were church-attending Protestants d. had few private moral standards e. were Roman Catholic parishioners
As understood in the late 1700s, a republic was a system in which ultimate political authority is vested in __________
a. a constitutional monarchy b. the people c. the chosen few d. the rich and powerful e. evangelical Protestants