In Catholic New Spain, Hispanic wives and daughters often lived in seclusion because
A) ?women were seen as more vulnerable to epidemics.
B) ?in this way women were protected from Indian attacks.
C) ?New World Spaniards wanted to emulate customs of European gentility.
D) ?Hispanic men believed that they could increase their honor by protecting the sexual purity of their female relatives.
E) ?None of these are correct.
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A) Florida. B) Texas. C) Georgia. D) Alabama.
The Hittites and Assyrians were most alike in that both
A) were warlike, militaristic societies. B) spoke Indo-European languages. C) spoke Semitic languages. D) were mainly urban cultures with large, complex cities. E) were seagoing peoples.
In the seventeenth century, English Quakers
A. disregarded gender distinctions. B. were pacifists. C. believed all could attain salvation. D. had no paid clergy. E. All these answers are correct.
In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
A. Japanese troops attacked the Philippines. B. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japan's diplomats to leave Washington. C. the Japanese developed a new, unbreakable communication code. D. President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States. E. Japan tried to repair relations with the United States in order to restore their flow of supplies.