Which of the following was LEAST characteristic of the Persian Empire and civilization?
A) efficiency in governmental administration
B) efficient postal system
C) a uniform coinage and promotion of trade
D) persecution of racial minorities
E) the practice of an ethical religion
D
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With 5 million members at its peak in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was known for all of the following except
a. secret rituals. b. lack of support in the Midwest and the Bible Belt. c. flag-waving parades. d. the blazing cross. e. the bloodied lash.
Jiang Jieshi, president of China, protested the Japanese invasion of Manchuria to the League of Nations, but the League did not take any military action. Why?
A. The League was founded on pacifist principles. B. The League did not have a mechanism for military action. C. The League believed Japan had the right to annex Manchuria. D. The member council voted against military intervention.
The English political philosopher most often cited by American rebels was __________
a. Thomas Paine b. Edmund Burke c. William Pitt d. John Locke e. David Hume
The questioning of rationality in so many fields at the turn of the twentieth century undermined liberalism by
a. showing that inalienable human rights are simply a historically based creation of the human mind. b. concluding that a society cannot function as liberals assumed because people are not rational. c. arguing that the most basic ideas of human rights and popular sovereignty are simply tools cynically used by elites. d. offering people more emotion, irrational ideologies. e. all of the above