The majority of the Persian army were made from
a. Eunuchs who guarded the palace.
b. the Immortals who were the king's personal body guard.
c. captured prisoners of war who were forced to convert to Zoroastrianism.
d. remnants of the overthrown Assyrian military.
e. recruits specialized from diverse geographic regions in the empire.
e
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The Supreme Court's ruling in the Dartmouth v. Woodward case in 1819
A) expanded federal control over interstate commerce. B) legitimized the doctrine of implied powers. C) established the principle of sanctity of contract. D) established the principle of judicial review.
One of the primary characteristics of Greek philosophy was its
a. emphasis on tradition as a guide to action. b. belief in the need for strong, authoritarian government. c. concern with personal salvation through mystical union with God. d. emphasis on reason as the means of discovering truth.
The Greek polis was thought of as a community of __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
In the long term, the crusading movement by Western Europeans
a. disrupted channels of trade because animosity between Christians and Muslims effectively ended trade between these two cultures for centuries to come. b. brought the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christian churches closer together as they united in their struggle against the Islamic world. c. was used by Europeans to rationalize later empire building. d. all of the above