What were the consequences to early settlers who chose herding as their way of life?
What will be an ideal response?
A. It imposes a mobile way of life
1) the population that follows the herd do not settle
2) herding does not favor the development of cities or the kind of culture that cities nourish
B. Herding peoples have to learn to tolerate and digest dairy products
1) most herding communities relied on cattle, sheep, horses, goats
2) most early people did not produce lactase, which enables the digestion of dairy products
C. Herders' diet lacks variety
1) relies mostly on meat, milk, and blood
2) still nutritionally sound and gives all the human body needs, including adequate vitamin C
3) herders highly prize cultivated plants and import them at great cost or take them as tribute or booty
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a) Henry Ford b) Mary Harris Jones c) Elizabeth Gurley Flynn d) William D. Haywood
Why did the United States and the Soviet Union both support the decolonization movement?
A) Newly independent states were weak and often became clients. B) Both nations sincerely supported national self-determination. C) As England and France became weaker, they became more dominant superpowers. D) Newly independent states quickly improved the quality of life for their citizens. E) Small independent states were too weak for the superpowers to care about them.
Physicians identified all of the following as reasons for the long hours that they work except:
a. intense career commitment as a result of their training. b. a sense of obligation to their patients. c. a sense of restlessness at home and like there was work waiting to be done. d. income to pay back student debt and to maintain a particular lifestyle.
Which of the following was true of American politics in the early twenty-first century?
A) About half of eligible citizens voted in presidential elections. B) The majority of Americans were registered Republicans. C) The majority of Americans were registered Democrats. D) The likelihood of voting closely correlated with what region a person lived in.