John Harrison and Joseph Banks contributed to the use of practical science by the late eighteenth century in all of these ways EXCEPT
a. translating the scientific outlook into real-world applications.
b. making Greenwich, and thus Britain, the center of the world.
c. developing Kew Gardens as the world center of botany.
d. supporting Britain's increased power of Britain.
e. solving the problem of longitude.
e
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a. piecework b. division of labor c. sweatshop labor d. a member of a labor union
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A) the invasion of France B) the seizure of Czechoslovakia C) the annexation of Austria D) the invasion of Poland
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A) deal only with German war crimes B) do not consider the faults of the victors C) are strongly biased D) focus on Jewish suffering