The city of Mecca was controlled by the ________ tribe
A) Quraysh
B) al-Gebra
C) al-Mahdi
D) al-Saud
E) none of the above
A
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Which of the following statements concerning the wartime economy is true?
A. The national debt skyrocketed during the war years. B. Roosevelt secured passage of a steeply graduated corporate and private income tax to finance the war. C. Net corporate profits fell dramatically during the war years. D. From 1939 to 1945, employees' wages and salaries declined.
The world came closest to a full-fledged nuclear exchange as it ever has in October 1962 during the
A) Arab-Israeli War. B) Berlin Blockade. C) Indian-Chinese War. D) Cuban Missile Crisis. E) Bay of Pigs.
In the United States, which of the following was not a reason for opposition to the Mexican-American War?
A) ?? Mexico's army was four times the size of American forces and would therefore be unbeatable. B) ?? The war was being fought over territory that the United States had never claimed. C) ?? The president had undercut congressional authority by announcing that the war already existed. D) ?? A mere border incident was being used as an excuse to provoke a war to acquire more slave territory. E) ?? The president was precipitating the nation into a fathomless abyss of crime and calamity.
What was Diocletian's rationale for the persecution of Christians?
a. As they were political enemies of the Emperor, he was entitled to impose penalties. b. To enforce his authority as dominus, or living god. c. Refusal to participate in the imperial cult weakened the unity of the Empire. d. It would require more administration to enforce his decrees, making more people dependent on him. e. It provided a cultural rallying point among non-Christians in the empire.