What was the concern of King Afonso when he wrote to the King of Portugal?
a. The Kongo kingdom was not getting a fair share in the slave trade.
b. Portugal was taxing the Kongo unfairly.
c. European Christians had lost interest in spreading the faith.
d. His son had not been received in the Lisbon court.
e. He had not received a Portuguese emissary.
c
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Why did so many slaveholders in the Upper South sell their slaves into the internal slave trade in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. They had lost faith in slavery as an institution. b. Such sales were enormously profitable. c. High taxes forced them to do so. d. They had grown increasingly fearful of slave uprisings.
Henry II of England reformed the judicial system by making his royal courts the _____________.
a. Only ones that could call on the services of jurors. b. Subordinates of courts convened by bishops. c. Final courts of appeal. d. Elected representatives of the three social ‘estates.'
What do these photographs of the 1960 presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy pictured with their families reveal about the American public in the postwar era?
A) its tendency to pry into the lives of others B) its distrust of politicians C) its emphasis on idealized family life D) its obsession with celebrity life
In 1945, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met to discuss the progress of the war and the postwar world. Where did this historic meeting take place?
A) ?Potsdam B) ?Paris C) ?Moscow D) ?Yalta