In a little over a generation, Japan become one of the top ten industrial nations by
a. visiting Western factories and hiring Western experts.
b. massive private rather than government investment in transportation, communications, and heavy industry.
c. encouraging a value system that emphasized individualism rather than cooperation and paternalism.
d. exploiting the antagonistic relationship between the government and powerful families.
e. adopting samurai values of honor and extreme competition.
a
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The term latifundia refers to
a. Large estates employing slaves and owned by large landowners. b. Land given to soldiers after having served in combat in the Roman army. c. The economic conditions of soldiers, who lost their land while they were away fighting. d. The agricultural transition to money crops by the common soldier-farmer. e. Colonies developed by Romans from land taken in military campaigns.
Regarding immigration, which of these statements is FALSE?
a. Many immigrants leave to make higher wages with the intention of eventually returning home. b. Religious and ethnic issues often affect the welcome immigrants receive. c. Today's easy access to travel complicates the past slow assimilation of new immigrants entering a nation. d. Immigration is not related to poverty. e. International labor movements are affected by the global economy.
By the end of the nineteenth century, southern agriculture
A. had regained the profitability it had had prior to the Civil War. B. had the majority of farmers living under the tenant system. C. had seen a significant diversification of its crops. D. had seen a sharp decline in absentee ownership of farmland. E. had experienced a deceleration of the processes begun in the postwar years.