Virgil's epic the Aeneid was written because
a. Virgil wanted to protest against the tyrannous rule of Augustus.
b. the Senate commissioned it when it gave Octavian the title Augustus.
c. Augustus commissioned it to glorify his role in founding the Empire.
d. he sought to compete with the popularity of Livy's History of Rome.
e. Aeneas was a popular hero who sacrificed his life in a rear guard action on a bridge over the Tiber River.
c
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The Virginia Company attracted new settlers to its colony after 1609 by
A) offering them a share of the company's profits. B) advertising the benefits of Virginia's healthy environment and comfortable living conditions. C) promising free land at the end of seven years' labor for the company. D) paying significantly higher wages than those prevailing throughout Europe.
During World War II, American shoppers
A. had less money to spend than they had had the decade before. B. did not buy as many magazines, as part of the war effort. C. had less money to spend than they had had the decade before, but did not buy as many magazines, as part of the war effort. D. faced shortages of some consumer goods. E. All these answers are correct.
The so-called "May Fourth Movement" was
a. a reaction by Chinese business leaders to the policies of Yuan Shikai. b. the effort on the part of Sun Yat-sen to gain control of the Peking government. c. demonstrations by Chinese students and others in opposition to the Japanese being awarded Germany's sphere of influence in Shandong province. d. an effort by peasants to show support for the radical reform program of Yuan Shikai. e. the first, unsuccessful attempt by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to stage a coup.
In the seventeenth century, most colonial families
A. were self-sufficient. B. used wagons to transfer goods to market. C. owned spinning wheels or looms. D. did not own a plow. E. grew and processed their own grain.