Unlike Herodotus, Thucydides was all of the following except
A) a contemporary of the events he described.
B) concerned with careful observation and historical accuracy.
C) a historian of many ancient civilizations.
D) interested in the effects of war on the human soul.
E) interested in emphasizing primary evidence.
Ans: C
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A. participation of women as laborers and volunteers on the home front during the First World War B. active picketing and marching of the National Woman's Party C. propaganda campaigns of the National American Women Suffrage Association D. commitment of the Democratic party leadership in the 1916 election to women's suffrage
The outstanding German philosopher whose Critique of Pure Reason ushered in a new age of philosophic idealism was
A) Kant. B) Spener. C) Zinzendorf. D) Swedenborg. E) Whitefield.
After the outbreak of war, Hollywood:
A) ignored the war and produced escapist fare. B) sought to build morale with patriotic movies. C) directly faced American racism in film. D) made films questioning whether the war was justified.
As depicted in this photograph, why did the group "Indians of All Tribes" decide to occupy the site of an abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay between 1969 and 1971?
A) Alcatraz prison had been the site where many Native Americans had been imprisoned during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. B) They felt the prison was the perfect site because, like an Indian reservation, it also lacked many basic facilities. C) The island had been part of an earlier reservation set aside for California Indians before it was taken away from them. D) The island was the site of an ancestral burial ground before it became the site of a federal prison.