Why were the "Puritans" known by that name?
a. They washed obsessively to purify themselves of sin.
b. They wanted to purify the Roman Catholic Church of its southern European tendencies.
c. They wished to purify the Church of England of all remnants of Roman Catholicism.
d. They sought to purify the English nation of its recent influx of Irish immigrants.
e. They viewed purification of sin as the paramount calling of all Christians.
c
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Dutch colonial efforts were
A. incredibly unsuccessful, as their huge expenditures did not produce a single profitable colony. B. ended by superior Portuguese power in North America before 1700. C. weakened by their principled refusal to take part in the slave trade. D. highly successful in Southeast Asia, and particularly on the island of Java. E. most economically profitable in New Amsterdam.
Which of the following was a thriving coastal African kingdom in the late 1200s?
a. Portugal b. Songhai c. Benin d. Timbuktu
__________ shared his imperial power with three other men.
A. Aurelian B. Constantine C. Constantius II D. Diocletian
By 1854, more than ___________________ people had made their way to California
A) ?fifty thousand B) ?one hundred thousand C) ?two hundred thousand D) ?three hundred thousand E) ?one million