In Roman families, the authority of the father over members of his household extended to the power of life and death. The Latin term for this legal authority was ____________________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word


patria potestas

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Map 15.1 shows that the country most likely to be torn apart by religious differences would be __________

A) Norway B) Sweden C) France D) Spain

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Considered a reactionary, de Maistre

a. denounced the Enlightenment of the philosophes as an "insurrection against God." b. condemned any kind of religious or political liberalism. c. regarded the Revolution as satanic evil. d. claimed that everything connected with the Revolution, including its roots, must be expunged from the soil of Christian Europe. e. all of the above

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Deists shared the ideas of eighteenth-century European Enlightenment thinkers, namely that:

a. science could uncover God's laws that governed the natural order. b. Christ's divinity was beyond question. c. the universe was unknowable. d. God did not exist.

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The Mesolithic period began when

a. early humans first settled in Eurasia b. the final Ice Age began, the large numbers of animals appeared c. when early humans first began to domesticate plants d. glaciers from the last Ice Age receded and food animals thinned out e. early humans first began to use stone tools

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