What was true about the economy of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth century?
a. Regional and interregional trade only began to expand with the arrival of the Europeans.
b. Although agriculture was the economic basis of society, commerce was beginning to affect daily life.
c. The region exported nothing but agricultural produce.
d. Agriculture was becoming less commercialized.
e. Local artisans were the main producers and consumers of luxury goods.
b
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A) Peter Salem. B) James Armistead. C) Salem Poor. D) Crispus Attucks.
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A) political stagnation contrasted with rapid social change. B) dynamic leadership by the export oligarchy. C) honest and efficient government. D) the founding of a new Social Democratic party.
How was Rousseau a rebel against the Enlightenment?
A) He was a man of no formal education but embraced the ideas of rationalism and internal knowledge gained independent of the senses. B) He supported the individual over the community and notion of equality for men. C) He was a believer in the theory of religion based upon faith and a strong understanding of science and how they were juxtaposed. D) He glorified both nature and society in his prose, while rejecting theology. E) He embodied the Romantic Movement and shunned the enlightened thinkers, attacking rationalism.
National Security Council Report 68 argued that
A) the Marshall Plan and similar approaches to foreign aid were the best means of minimizing Soviet influence. B) the United States should build up the strength of the free world in order to contain communism. C) the United Nations was the best vehicle for achieving a peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union. D) the military force behind Soviet expansionism was weak and inefficient. E) Communism would die out on its own.