The Muslim calendar begins in the year 622 C.E. when the Prophet Muhammad and his followers fled Medina and were welcomed into the city of Mecca.
a. true
b. false
Answer: b. false
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A. Ships from European nations other than England were again allowed to trade in the colonies. B. Sugar and tobacco were added to the list of goods that could be sold only in England or in the English colonies. C. Foreign goods classified as "necessities" could once again be sold directly to the English colonies. D. American merchants charged with violations of the Navigation Acts would be tried in vice-admiralty courts.
Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians had been active in the __________ that swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
a. abolitionist movement b. independence fervor c. Salem Witchcraft hysteria d. first Great Awakening
In the Roman Empire, the legacy of Hellenism was ________
A) first evident B) suppressed by Roman traditions C) preserved and spread farther D) ended
As one measure of the French crown's terrible financial predicament, by 1788 the interest payments on the state debt alone amounted to
A) one-fifth of total government spending. B) one-quarter of total government spending. C) one-third of total government spending. D) one-half of all government spending. E) two-thirds of all government spending.