According to the Textbook, What Was the Underlying Causal Factor

question 68

Multiple Choice

According to the textbook, what was the underlying causal factor in the emergence of requirements that people refrain from belching, scratching their private body areas, and passing gas at the dinner table?

• A) a decline in standards of decency
• B) the rise of capitalism
• C) the rise of the modern political state
• D) the decline in family-held power

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