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AP World History Modern

AP World History Modern Question of the Day

Practice AP World History Modern with the production-style question-of-the-day selection for this public URL.

Question 1

The seminal capitalist text, The Wealth of Nations, was written by  .

  1. Adam Smith
  2. John Locke
  3. Thomas More
  4. Thomas Hobbes
  5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Explanation: The Wealth of Nations was published by the enlightenment thinker Adam Smith in 1776. The Wealth of Nations outlines how nations can and do acquire wealth. It was widely influential and contributed to the break from mercantilism and the embracing of free market capitalism that marked Europe in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.