SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these best accounts for the observations made by these travelers about the status of women in China and West Africa in this era?
A
As strangers in these lands, both observers held no biases of their own, so their descriptions can be fully trusted
B
Both observers assumed most of the readers of their accounts would be women, so their observations complimented women
C
In both places, women generally followed long-held cultural norms regarding their behavior
D
Ibn Battuta was writing as a Muslim in a Muslim land, while Polo was a Christian in a Confucian land, so only Ibn Batutta’s observations are accurate
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A subculture is just what it sounds like-a smaller cultural group within a larger culture; people of a subculture are part of the larger culture but also share a specific identity within a smaller group.

Detailed explanation-2: -Clothing, food, tools, and architecture are examples of material culture that most people would think of.

Detailed explanation-3: -Countercultures reject mainstream values and create their own cultural rules and norms. Through invention or discovery, cultures evolve via new ideas and new ways of thinking.

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