The hypothesis that the Protestant ethic helped explain
why Europe developed economically is incompatible with the notion that capitalist development is:
a. driven by greed or a desire for comfort and pleasure
b. driven by corruption of government by business
c. driven by accident of geography
d. not possible in countries outside Europe
Question 2
German scholar Max Weber argued that _________
________________ helped explain why European countries were the first to develop economically.
a. geographic advantages, such as access to the sea and the development of agriculture
b. strong democratic institutions
c. inclusive economic institutions
d. the Protestant ethic's emphasis on steady, disciplined hard work, thrift, honesty, and effective use of time
The intermediate-disturbance hypothesis of community organization.
Distribution of Neandertal sites in Europe and western Asia.
Flynn Effect IQ scores have risen across developed countries in recent decades. Source: Flynn (199
In 1839 Mary Cragin, at the age of twenty-nine, became a convert to John Humphrey Noyes’s “communism
Line analysis of Gustave Caillebotte, Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day.
Landscapes of Urban Europe