The poet Hesiod and the dramatist Aeschylus both wrote about the
a. genealogy of the gods.
b. folly of the Persian Emperor Xerxes.
c. perils of hubris.
d. daily ordeal of common people trying to survive.
e. all of the above
c
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When in 1619, John Rolfe, a Jamestown tobacco farmer, made a purchase of 20 African slaves in exchange for food supplies to the Dutch it marked
A) the actual introduction of slavery in what is now the United States. B) the beginning of a period until 1680 when slavery, though still difficult, was less harsh and hopeless than it became after 1680. C) the cessation of Virginia land owners using captured Indians as slaves. D) an anomaly of Dutch involvement in the slave trade.
The new Italian kingdom established in 1861
A. was created as a result of the Italo-Prussian Treaty of Halberstam in 1853. B. was, to a significant degree, the result of the diplomatic and political work of Cavour and the military actions of Garibaldi. C. was created as a result of the mass uprising of 1860 and 1861, when Russian and French troops were driven out. D. seized Greece as soon as the Ottoman Empire withdrew from it. E. owed its final success to the diplomatic and military success of Alexander II.
When did France first intervene in the American Revolution?
A) After Lexington and Concord B) After the Declaration of Independence C) After Yorktown D) After the victory at Saratoga E) After Bunker Hill
Aurangzeb’s long rule renewed the Mughal trend of expanding into the Northeastern areas controlled by the Ahoms, whom he ultimately succeeded in converting into _________after a military standstill.
a. Mughal chiefs b. Mughal clients c. Mughal representatives d. Mughals citizens