試題詳解

44. In the last paragraph, the author writes, 'In a European context, centralized states began to develop the bureaucratic mechanisms for identifying their populations, raising taxation, raising armies through conscription, and holding the monopoly of violence on their territories." Here, "holding the monopoly of violence on their territories" means the centralized states
(A) severely prohibit violence on their territories
(B) allow no one else to exercise violence on their territories besides themselves
(C) possess minimal control of violence on their territories
(D) exercise limited control of violence on their territories for economic profits
(E) completely put violence on hold on their territories