China's Population Had Soared by the End of the 1700s

question 24

Multiple Choice

China's population had soared by the end of the 1700s because for all of the following reasons except

• A)relative peace and stability had prevailed during the early years of Qing rule.
• B)new crops had been introduced from the New World.
• C)introduction of the development of faster growing Southeast Asian rice into China.
• D)the political stability of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
• E)the central government's termination of legal abortions.

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Definitions:

Nucleophilic Addition

A fundamental type of reaction in organic chemistry where a nucleophile forms a bond with an electrophile, typically resulting in the addition of the nucleophile to a carbon atom.

Carbonyl Group

A functional group composed of a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom (C=O), central to many organic reactions.

Nucleophilic Addition

A chemical reaction in which a nucleophile forms a bond with a carbon atom of an unsaturated compound.

Carbonyl Compounds

Organic compounds that contain a carbonyl group (C=O) as part of their structure, including ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids, and amides.