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The Silk Road was used by several groups and nations to take advantage of the constant and varied commercial exchange that used the route since the Antique Era. Such different nations like Romans, Hungarians, Armenians, Seleucids, and, Chinese used the Road to exchange the silk cloth produced in China for the Roman gold. Nations like the Medes used their strategic position in the middle of the Silk Road to intermediate and offer different services like guides, translators, and slaves. Source: "Strabo's Geography Book II Chapter 5 "
. Taxila people in present Pakistan also took advantage of their strategic location to acquire resources by trading and exchanging. When the Islamic monopoly fell, its place was replaced by the Mongol Empire. Source: The Pax Mongolica, de Daniel C. Waugh, University of Washington, Seattle.
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<span>DuBois insisted on full equality under the law; Washington felt equality would come after blacks had good jobs.</span><span>
The whites and the blacks loved Washington. Only blacks loved Dubois. They made speaches and washington was the founder of the scocety for blacks.</span>
9. The correct answer is B. According to the text The Rise and Fall of the Incas "<em>the name "Inca" was originally that of the tribe's ruling group of families</em>".
10. The correct answer is A. Both articles refer to how the European culture was introduced by force, and how Incas customs and traditions were not considered.
11. The Spanish were suprised that the Incas had no alphabet or set of numbers, considering how advanced their civilization was. The Empire had a network of paved roads, canals, and activities regulated by an efficient administrative system, all of which is not possible without the use of language and numbers, needed to keep documentation and to give instructions to those involved in construction, and regulation of social activities.
12. The correct answer is A. The use of the word "subjugated" suggests that even if the Spanish invaders were only about 170 men, they managed to subdue the Incas.
13. The effects of the Spanish conquest on the Inca Empire were dramatic. The conquerors introduced reading, writing and their laws and religions to the Incas, making them adopt these to the detriment of their own. Also, the fact that the Incas were not immune to the illnesses the Europeans carried with them, meant that a lot of Incas suffered and died.
14. The correct answer is B. Both articles mention the year of the Spanish conquest, 1532.
Germany: Along with the feeling of social and economic discontent of the German middle class, strong anti-Semitism grew, motivated by the idea that the Jewish people had crucified Jesus, and because the Jews had greater economic gains than many Germans. Likewise, the Nazi party led by Adolf Hitler managed to gain much support from the Germans by being against the Jews, beginning by denying basic civil rights to the Jews, such as banning marriages between Jews and Germans. Also, in the United States, before it entered the war, the Ku Klux Klan was in favor of Hitler and the Nazis; and marches were made against the Jews. Hitler's totalitarianism would not have been so accepted had it not included hatred towards the Jews, and millions of deaths would have been avoided.
