Which of the following statements best explains why direct democracy worked in ancient athens? a. the council controlled the work of the assembly. b. people were paid to take part in government. c. the city-state's population of citizens was small. d. free people could vote and hold office.

What impact did company towns have on working conditions? company towns were ideal places to live because of the cheap prices of company stores. entertainment value in company towns made them attractions for those in rural areas. education provided by company towns workers to progress in the company. conditions in some towns indebted workers to trap them in the labor system.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. obierika was a man who thought about things. when the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? (p. 125) based on the context clues, the best definition for the word “calamity” in the excerpt above is disaster sadness luck indifference

Experimented with communism before taking part in a number of civil rights and antiwar protest