Let me say that our system of government does not copy the institutions of our neighbors. it is more the case of our being a model to others than of our imitating anyone else. our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands, not of a minority, but of the whole people. —pericles's funeral oration which early society is described in this excerpt?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Why was the agricultural revolution more successful in england than in the rest of europe?

What do most climatologists see as a major cause of rising global temperatures? a. earth's closer proximity to the sun due to its gravitational pull b. greenhouse gases produced by burning fossil fuels c. rising ocean levels caused by melting polar ice sheets d. water pollution cause by industrial waste