The first blacks imported to Virginia in 1619
A. may have been considered indentured servants by the colonists.
B. sparked an immediate rapid stream of African slaves to the British colonies.
C. followed Indians into slavery.
D. were preferred to European indentured servants.
E. arrived as independent landowners.
A
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A) superfluous. B) financing, organizing, and managing industrial plants. C) limited to negotiating between workers and bosses. D) providing new inventions to stimulate production. E) as innovators.
China's population had soared by the end of the 1700s for all of the following reasons except
A. relative peace and stability had prevailed during the early years of Qing rule. B. new crops had been introduced from the New World. C. introduction of the development of faster growing Southeast Asian rice into China. D. the political stability of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. E. the central government's termination of legal abortions.
Carpets decorated the floors of mosques, shrines and homes, but they could also be hung on walls of houses to preserve warmth in the winter. Those from Iran were highly prized.
a. true b. false
The policy of enriching a nation's wealth through direct management of people and resources was known as _____________.
A. mercantilism B. capitalism C. enlightened despotism D. cameralism E. chartism