Which Middle Eastern leader believed that his people should dress like westerners, adopt the Latin alphabet, attend state-run schools, and use the Gregorian calendar

What is the role of institutions in society - do they perform positive functions, or simply work in the interests of the powerful and against the powerless? (a related question here is why do our life chances vary by class, gender and ethnicity)

Which best expresses the radical republican philosophy of reconstruction? a. the confederate states were conquered territories that should be ruled by military governors. b. the southern states actually never left the union. c. if ten percent of the voters of a state that had seceded took an oath of allegiance to the union, then it should be readmitted as a state.

The zealots and sages, like ben zaccai, opposed the romans in different ways. describe the differences.