Students of the 21st Century Would Probably Be Most Surprised

question 29

Multiple Choice

Students of the 21st century would probably be most surprised to learn that during Greece's "Dark Age,"

• A) vandals destroyed many important records.
• B) many bishops did not know how to write their sermons.
• C) some village priests could not read well.
• D) few governmental records were kept at all.
• E) time has eroded a large percentage of the documents that have been found.

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Definitions:

Systematic Risk Factors

Factors that affect the overall financial market and cannot be mitigated through diversification. These include interest rates, inflation, and economic recessions.

Economic Events

Economic events are occurrences with economic impact that affect an entity's financial position and performance, including transactions and market fluctuations.

Market Risk

The likelihood that investors might face losses because of issues impacting the general functioning of the financial markets.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in relation to their mean, used to gauge volatility.