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Question 1

An important political development in Europe during the 15th-16th centuries that facilitated exploration throughout the world was?
 
  a. the bubonic plague
  b. the use of the horse as a means of power and transportation
  c. the Columbian Exchange
  d. the development of large, unified nation-states

Question 2

Why did the proportion of women working as sales clerks increase in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
 
  a. Sales jobs were attractive to women because that offered better working conditions than factory jobs.
  b. Managers in department stores considered female cashiers to be much more trustworthy that male cashiers.
  c. Sales jobs demanded many different skills that women usually possessed.
  d. Sales jobs usually led to the managerial positions that most working women desired.



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Reply 2 on: Sep 12, 2019
Wow, this really help


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