Citizen Edmond Genêt was a French government official who commissioned American privateers to harass British shipping
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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Before the 1660s, Africans were brought to the Chesapeake as slaves, but their work and prospects were not that different from those of indentured servants. How and why did Chesapeake landowners shift away from indentured servitude toward race-based chattel slavery?
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Explain to what degree the United States underwent a technological "revolution" in comparison to what Great Britain experienced between 1790 and 1820.
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Why did Aristotle feel that humans should not put much faith in natural philosophy?
A) Most of creation could not be studied and therefore lay beyond human understanding. B) It was sufficient to understand that gods and angels made the universe work. C) Investigating the physical laws that governed the sun and planets was blasphemous. D) Faith needed to be based on divine revelations in holy books, not study of physical nature. E) Aristotle lived long before any serious observations were made of the world of nature.
Unlike the rest of Southeast Asia, which was influenced by India, Vietnam was influenced by its long occupation by
a. Korea b. Bactria c. China d. Tibet e. Japan