The 1890 book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, influenced the United States to invest in __________
A) transatlantic telegraph cables
B) merchant steamships
C) its naval power
D) industrial hydropower
C
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a) He would gladly eat "fried secessionists for breakfast." b) He was struck at times by the "common humanity" of Confederates and Yankees. c) It would do "a secessionist's ears a great deal of good" to hear "The Star Spangled Banner." d) Southerners "deserved to be pillaged" for enslaving the blacks and starting the war. e) He thought of being wounded and having the "prettiest girl I have seen in Virginia" take care of him.
Which vessel, developed in the late sixteenth century, represented a key advance in shipbuilding technology and was used for both war and commerce into the eighteenth century?
A. fluyt B. galleon C. carrack D. caravel
One of the main reasons for the decline of the kingdom of Axum was a. warfare with Berbers
b. assimilation by Romans. c. a shift in trade routes to the Arabian peninsula and Persian gulf. d. competing farming with yam-producing Madagascar. e. desiccation of the Sahara.
The result of the hard-line Communist coup against Gorbachev was that
a. Boris Yeltsin led popular resistance to the coup. b. communism remained the preference of the Russian people. c. the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) effectively took the place of the USSR. d. a and c above e. All of these