The correct answer is <span>Nobles resisted change.
The country was exporting a lot of grain and this money was not invested into developing new technologies but rather aristocrats took it for themselves. This is when Peter the Great came and introduced the new nobility and started developing the country and modernizing it in order to make new things possible.</span>
<span>Slaves were not allowed to own a property, participate in social activities such as elections and were not given a humane treatment. Due to discrimination black skinned individuals who were deemed as free men were given the same restrictions. 2. How did free blacks respond to the slave codes? Slavery in the Americas introduced the troubling element of race into the master/slave relationship. For the first time in history, dark skin became the social marker of chattel slavery. And, as a means of justifying this new face which is a black face given to an ancient practice, the slavers and their supporters created a race-specific ideology of condemnation. Two and one-quarter centuries of human debasement and degradation denied slaves, not only their basic humanity, but also the opportunity to develop resources that could be used for their own empowerment and later bequeathed to future generations of blacks. Slavery harmed the slaves by creating capital deficiencies or developmental.</span>
Answer: The Tang and Song Dynasties of China provide a glimpse into ancient Chinese splendor and reveal Chinese advances in all aspects of human life. The Ming Empire undertook colossal building projects, such as the Great Wall, was top in technology, and made epic explorations. The Mongols were so successful because of their excellent horsemanship, lack of supply trains, superior battle tactics, use of fear, and Genghis Khan's intellect.
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The correct passage which best reflects common features of realistic fiction is:
From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a moment and regarded the fight. The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a railing and watched. Over on the Island, a worm of yellow convicts came from the shadow of a building and crawled slowly along the river's bank.
(<em>Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets)</em>