What was the motivation to push for education in the later Roman Empire?
A. The desire to counteract Christianity's teachings
B. The thirst for Graeco-Roman cultural assimilation
C. The vastly cosmopolitan world with its many different intellectual possibilities
D. The need for educated civil servants
E. Augustus Caesar's mass demobilization of the army
Answer: D
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A) Zeno. B) Socrates. C) Aristotle. D) Plato. E) Pythagoras.
The Mongol conquests in China
a. led to the unification of a divided China, with the north and south of the kingdom once again coming under the rule of one dynasty. b. led to the fragmentation of China into a Mongol-dominated north and a native Song dynasty-dominated south. c. resulted in the return of North China to pasture land for Mongol herds in the 1230s through the mass deportation of settled peoples by the Great Khan Ogodei. d. brought an end to all Chinese administrative practices and their replacement with Persian models.
What method did the Han invent to staff the imperial bureaucracy?
a. nepotism b. a lottery c. a tithe of every tenth born child d. hiring foreign scholars e. civil service exams
Which transcontinental railroad operated without government subsidies and was the only one not forced into bankruptcy?
a. Central Pacific Railroad b. Great Northern Railroad c. Pennsylvania Railroad d. Union pacific Railroad