What Persian-speaking people dominated the trade along the Silk Road in Central Asia?
a. Persians
b. Kushans
c. Mamluks
d. Huns
e. Sogdians
Ans: e
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A) the United States. B) Italy. C) France. D) Russia. E) Germany.
Which of the following does NOT describe those who attended the Constitutional Convention?
a) Most were better educated than the average American of the time. b) Most were prosperous by the standards of the day. c) Most had earned their wealth after rising from humble origins. d) A significant percentage had served in the army during the Revolutionary War.
Even before there was agriculture, early Neolithic peoples were settling in areas that were
a. far from rivers, the flooding of which was a constant danger b. in or near deserts, which provided natural defenses against dangerous wild animals c. habitable, but without material for building permanent settlements, such as clay d. habitable only by small groups of about 20 people e. rich in grains that were easy to collect and hunting
All of the following statements about sharecropping are true EXCEPT that
A) many freedmen continued to live on their former masters' land. B) sharecroppers gave up about one-third to one-half of their harvest to landlords. C) the practice fostered the economic dependence of Southern blacks. D) the system allowed the tenants to work at their own pace. E) tenant farmers independently selected the crops that they wanted to cultivate.