Why did Chinese ships stay close to the coastline prior to the ninth century?
a. They did not have compasses.
b. They were not really sea worthy.
c. Their crews feared sea monsters.
d. The Chinese had no interest in deep-water navigation.
e. Chinese ships were mostly used to ferry people from one place to another.
a
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a. make Persian the official language of the Qu'ran. b. fuse Shi'ite and Sunni beliefs into an all-encompassing form of Islam known as Druze. c. defeat the Mongols and prevent them from invading the Muslim Near East. d. introduce Islam into northern India through conquest.
The Eisenhower administration used the CIA to topple the leftist government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Pope Gregory the Great was responsible for all of the following EXCEPT
A) creating the Papal States. B) recognizing the Byzantine emperor as the rightful ruler of Italy. C) supporting the work of Christian missionaries in England. D) writing The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. E) becoming Bishop of Rome.
What would Enlightenment thinkers such as Cesare Beccaria have recommended when Marie-Jeanne Bartonnet's case appeared before the Parlement of Paris?
A) imprisonment B) execution C) rehabilitation D) commutation