How did its supporters justify "manifest destiny"?
A) by advocating free trade
B) by conjuring up the golden age of farming
C) by arguing white Americans were superior and exceptional
D) by warning against the dangers of European imperialism
C
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What was the Bastille?
a) a fortified Parisian prison overrun by revolutionaries on July 14, 1789 b) the name of the Versailles tennis court where the National Assembly was formed in June 1789 Consider This: The governor of the Bastille had his head cut off. See 6.5: Narrative: Poets and Peasants. c) the special military bat with which the royal army beat people, causing the revolutionaries to mock the soldiers as “bastilles” Consider This: The governor of the Bastille had his head cut off. See 6.5: Narrative: Poets and Peasants. d) a former monastery that was home to the Jacobins in Paris Consider This: The governor of the Bastille had his head cut off. See 6.5: Narrative: Poets and Peasants.
Biblical scholars typically claim that most of the early books of the Hebrew Bible accurately reflect the historical events of the Israelites
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
How did the Orthodox Christian and Roman Catholic religions differ in 1000?
a. Orthodox priests could marry. b. Orthodox priests were required to be literate. c. Roman Catholics recognized the patriarch in Constantinople as the head of the church. d. Roman Catholics put yeast in communion bread. e. Orthodox priests were required to wear beards.
Eighteenth-century creole nationalists spent much time refuting the claims of European writers like Comte Georges de Buffon who proclaimed
A) the inferiority of the New World. B) the inferiority of the New World and its inhabitants C) the New World's dependency on Europe. D) the New World's superiority.