Why did Confucian officials want to stop voyages and foreign trade during the Ming dynasty? Choose two correct answers. They opposed having wealth. They felt it weakened Chinese government. They disliked the fighting with other peoples. They wanted to weaken the Ming emperor. They believed it could hurt Chinese culture.

What is the first half of church mass called?

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.

Match the word to an antonym. 1. hate evil 2. good knowledge 3. sad short 4. sunset love 5. courteous gigantic 6. minuscule dawn 7. long wise 8. imprudent happy 9. cowardice rude