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Why Were Assyrian Women Unlikely to Rise to Positions of Political

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Why were Assyrian women unlikely to rise to positions of political power?


A) The pursuits most admired by the Assyrian elite were warfare and hunting, which were exclusively male occupations.
B) The Assyrians believed that only women who were secluded from public life were capable of bearing strong children.
C) The Assyrians believed that Egypt had fallen because it had allowed women to hold positions of power, and they did not want to imitate such a flawed state.
D) The Assyrians' religion taught that if the natural purity of women were defiled by allowing them to hold public office, the gods would punish the people of Assyria.

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