Explain why in the invasion of America, European "micro-organisms were the true victors."
What will be an ideal response?
More than any other single factor, infection by European-carried diseases (smallpox, measles, etc.) decimated and demoralized New World peoples. This increased the ability of Europeans to conquer and dominate the native peoples and transplant their own culture to the New World.
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A) potato B) mold C) rat D) grain
What was inflammatory about the Zimmerman telegram?
a. It attempted to bring Mexico into the war on the side of the Central Powers. b. It asked Mexico to engage in war with the United States to draw it out of the European arena. c. It promised Mexico the return of land lost to the United States in the nineteenth century if it would side with Germany. d. It offered Mexico control of Spain at the end of the war for engaging the United States. e. None of these.
Pursuing pleasure rationally, and not only in a physical or hedonistic sense, as the only true good, was a precept of
A. Epicureanism. B. Stoicism. C. Hellenism. D. Euphemism. E. Zoroastrianism.
How did trade shape the Roman world? How did trade work to bring the Roman world together?
What will be an ideal response?