Modernization Theory Suggests That in the 1500s Societies of the Global

question 108

Multiple Choice

Modernization theory suggests that in the 1500s societies of the global south were undeveloped. Which of the following can be said about this belief?

• A) Much of the global south was developed but not nearly so much as the north.
• B) Many superior societies existed in the south but they had all disappeared by the 1500s.
• C) Areas from China, the Middle East, Africa, and South America were underdeveloped.
• D) The notion is a socially constructed fiction perpetrated in the developed world.

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