What was the Cheka?
A) the Russian secret police
B) a small elite group that controlled the Communist party
C) the largest tractor factory
D) state farms
E) the Russian intelligentsia
A
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What was one important difference between the Virginia and Maryland colonies?
a) Economic motives played a more important role in the founding of Virginia, while religious motives played a more important role in the founding of Maryland. b) Religious motives played a more important role in the founding of Virginia, while economic motives played a more important role in the founding of Maryland. c) Virginia’s economy depended on rice cultivation, while Maryland’s economy depended on sugar production. d) Maryland’s economy depended on rice cultivation, while Virginia’s economy depended on sugar production.
In the thirteenth century, who conquered China?
a. Manchuria b. Mongols c. Japan d. Islam e. Europeans
According to the introductory video in section 27.1, what was significant about the gas crisis in 1973–1974?
A) It was the first time that gas had been rationed in the United States. B) It was the first time that gas had been rationed during peacetime in the United States. C) It made Americans realize that they lived in the age of limitless possibilities. D) It led to the invention of air-conditioning and the rise of the Sunbelt.
Which philosopher in his Republic outlines a notion of the afterlife similar to reincarnation?
a. Aristotle b. Homer c. Plato d. Herodotus e. Rousseau