For which of the following reasons is the Safavid Empire considered important?
A. The Safavid Empire prevented the Persians from adopting Islam.
B. The Safavid rulers gave Sunni religious authorities a role in governing their empire.
C. The Safavids consolidated the Persian identity and Arab identity as one and the
same.
D. The Safavid Empire did not allow Persian art and culture to develop.
E. The Safavids shaped and centralized Shi'i Islam as a state religion.
E
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As the courts and legislatures cleared the books of laws that legalized racial discrimination, affirmative action developed in the 1970s as a new tactic. What was its purpose?
a. It required that the employment process be color-blind and that race not be mentioned. b. It required that the federal government’s agencies approve all employment decisions to ensure compliance. c. It intentionally encouraged lawsuits against private companies as a way of bringing them into compliance. d. It created a remedy for discriminatory hiring practices of the past and present whereby preference, in certain circumstances, could be given to minorities. e. It created policies that made it more difficult to hire or promote a white employee.