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mpobi80 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Some in the British Parliament blamed the massive famine of 1769, which killed one third of Bengal's population, on

a. the East India Company.
b. British military actions against the Mughal armies.
c. the Indians being forced to plant cotton, resulting in insufficient food production.
d. internal wars between competing maharajahs.
e. decrease in the number of farmers, as a result of diseases imported by the Europeans.

Question 2

All of the following are associated with Descartes EXCEPT the notion that

a. inherited thought is superior to rational thought.
b. rationality is associated with mathematics, producing a unified system of truth.
c. systematic doubt is a key of knowledge.
d. the ability to perceive the rational order of creation should be grounded in reasoning.
e. one should use the deductive approach to truth and reasoning.