The Ottomans defeated the ____________ and took control of western Arabia, including the pilgrimage city of Mecca, in 1517.
a. Latin Crusaders.
b. Assassins who had followed Saladin.
c. Mamluks.
d. Seljuks.
c. Mamluks.
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The underlying motive that led Great Britain to declare war on Germany was
A) the German invasion of Belgium. B) a desire to plunder on the continent. C) the desire to maintain world power. D) fear of German intentions in France. E) anxiety concerning a possible German invasion of Britain.
Years after the war in Iraq, an official U.S. government report concluded that, in 2003, Iraq
a. did have biological weapons though it was unclear what happened to them. b. destroyed its biological weapons once the U.S. invaded. c. did not have either biological or nuclear weapons when the U.S. invaded. d. had no desire to possess weapons of mass destruction. e. had ended all purchases of military weapons of any kind.
As a result of the Union defeat in the Peninsula Campaign,
a. Lincoln named George McClellan commander of the Union forces. b. the North decided to fight a war of containment. c. Lincoln began to draft the Emancipation Proclamation. d. Lincoln decided that they key to the war was controlling the Mississippi River. e. the Union commanders were left without an overall military strategy.
This town became the site of protests that brought together earlier civil rights leaders with Black Lives Matter activists following the shooting of a black man by police
A) Watts, California B) Memphis, Tennessee C) Orlando, Florida D) Ferguson, Missouri