In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ________ emerged as the fundamental language for describing phenomena and for communicating and testing scientific hypotheses among educated scholars.

A. logic
B. the Socratic method
C. mathematics
D. rhetoric


Answer: C

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A) Governmental Reorganization Act of 1799 B) Judiciary Act of 1801 C) Judicial Review Act of 1805 D) Federal Judiciary Act of 1789

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He was also sympathetic in his observations concerning the value placed on women's appearance and the prejudice women met as they aged: A. Smith B. Rousseau C. Descartes D. Montesquieu E. Voltaire

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What was the name of the Venetian merchant who claimed to have visited the Mongol court and whose writings are a disputed source of information on thirteenth-century China?

A) Marco Polo B) John of Piancarpino C) Alexius Comnenus D) Marsiglio of Padua E) Christine de Pizan

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W. E. B. Du Bois interpreted the term Pan-Africanism to mean that __________

A) all peoples of African descent should return to Africa B) the world’s people of color should unite to challenge white supremacy C) integration had failed and that all people of color should embrace racial separatism D) all people of color should ignite a violent global insurrection

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