According to the passage, the option that might be true is D) “Much of India's present-day society was based on the Aryan civilization.” Evidence from the passage supports that much of today’s India is based on the Aryan civilization. For example, it mentions that the language “Sanskrit” is the basis of South Asian languages. It also mentions that the Vedas (sacred writings of Aryans) were very important for the development of Hinduism. Therefore, the Aryan civilization had an important impact on the language and religion of India and South Asian countries.
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1. First president to visit Communist China = Richard Nixon
- <em>This was a lasting foreign policy initiative, starting friendly relations between the US and The People's Republic of China</em>
2. Egyptian leader = Anwar el-Sadat
3. Israeli leader = Menachem Begin
- <em>Sadat and Begin signed a peace treaty between their countries.</em>
4. deposed Shah of Iran = Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
5. Soviet leader visited by Nixon in 1972 = Leonid Brezhnev
6. Nixon's Vice President = Spiro Agnew
- <em>Agnew was the Vice-President until he resigned for tax evasion. He was replaced by Gerald Ford</em>
7. leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran = Ayatollah Khomeini
8. fired by President Nixon Archibald Cox
- <em>Cox was Special Prosecutor in the Watergate investigation. Firing Cox did not solve that crisis for Nixon. Leon Jaworski was appointed to replace Cox, and the investigation continued.</em>
The Gilded Age in U.S. history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to 1900. The term for this period was framed by Mark Twain in his novel 'The Gilded Age', which satirized an era of serious social problems, Ulysses Grant was the president during this period. The scandals of Grant administration included bribes and corrupt dealings.
The constitutional amendment is amendment 15