Author Question: What is the rationale for bridewealth in a patrilineal society? a. The wife is expensive to ... (Read 193 times)

ETearle · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

What is the rationale for bridewealth in a patrilineal society?

a. The wife is expensive to maintain and the groom must be compensated.
b. The wife's family will lose her labor and reproductive capacity.
c. The wife's family negotiates a better marriage with a high bridewealth.
d. The wife's children will drain resources from her husband's family over time.

Question 2

Several events combined to alter Western Europeans' ideas about the earth by the 18th century. These did not include:

a. the circumnavigation of the globe.
b. the discovery of the New World.
c. the invention of the microscope.
d. a less than rigid feudal class system.
e. the notion of a sun-centered universe.