8.  In a straight piece-rate system, wages are determined by _____.  

3. The _____ occurs when a low rating on one characteristic leads to an overall low rating.

10. . Medicare is the health insurance program that was implemented by the government in 1965 to provide medical care primarily for _____.  

 Answer the question below with a paragraph of at least eight complete sentences. Explain the meaning of the film title Harvest of Empire. 

“The _________________ [the second institution] loaned funds to developing countries at low interest rates.”

 Answer the question below with a paragraph of at least eight complete sentences. How did Las Casas describe the encounters between the Spanish and the native populations of the Americas? Please give specific examples.

“The [third and] final institution […] was the ________________, which began life as a trade agreement between twenty-three nations.”

“In 1648 the ________________________ ended the Thirty Years War in the region that would become Germany. The key idea [of the treaty] was that each ‘prince’ had the right to decide the public religion of his own people, while people who practiced other Christian beliefs could still practice their religion in private.”

“[The term ‘______________________’] is […] strange for several reasons, one of which is that it implies that these regions have tried in the past to become nation-states and were not able to do so because of some internal problem. In reality, many of these regions never had a coherent identity and were forged by European powers on grounds that had no basis in social reality.”

“In 1944 the United States convened a meeting in ___________________, which created three key institutions. ”