Why was China considered the standard in measuring growth in the eighteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
A. China considered standard for growth
1. fastest growing empire in the world
2. the homeland of a more modern society
3. better- educated society
a. over a million graduates from a highly demanding educational
system
4. more entrepreneurial society
a. bigger businesses and bigger clusters of mercantile and industrial
capita
5. more industrialized society
a. higher levels of production in more specialized concentrations
6. more urbanized society
a. denser distributions of population in most areas
7. more egalitarian society
a. hereditary landed gentry had social privileges similar to those of
their Western counterparts but had to defer to scholar-bureaucrats
from every level of rank and wealth in society
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What will be an ideal response?
With regard to women, the Communist Party under Lenin
a. successfully combatted traditional values for women. b. sought to free women from the burdens of their traditional domestic roles. c. established equality between the sexes throughout the Soviet Union. d. was able to incorporate female leadership into the party. e. none of the above
Justice and governance at the local level was usually provided by whom?
a. the king. b. the reeves of a shire. c. the lord of the manor. d. the archbishop of the diocese. e. local custom.
Ngo Dinh Diem was a Buddhist who had turned against his fellow Buddhists in order to fight the communists in Vietnam.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)