When Missionaries Introduced Steel Axes to the Aborigines of Australia

question 35

Multiple Choice

When missionaries introduced steel axes to the Aborigines of Australia, they changed power relations between men and women. This is an example of__________ .

• A) diffusion
• B) cultural lag
• C) an invention
• D) innovation
• E) a discovery

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