Which of the following statements concerning Desiderius Erasmus is NOT true?
A) He de-emphasized external forms of religion such as pilgrimages and fasts.
B) He believed the Vulgate contained errors and published a new translation of the New Testament.
C) Contemporaries claimed "Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched."
D) He actively sought to destroy the unity of the medieval Christian church.
E) His The Praise of Folly was a scathing indictment of the abuses of the church.
D
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Jefferson's home in the mountains of central Virginia was called ________
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According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon:
a. skull sizes were the same for all races, but intelligence differed. b. there were no separate species of races. c. there were not yet enough scientific data to prove either the southern or the abolitionist points of view. d. blacks and chimpanzees were the same. e. there was a hierarchy of races, with blacks forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees.
Boston merchants:
A) challenged the subordination of economic activity to Puritan control. B) refused to trade with anyone outside of the Puritan faith. C) paid for Anne Hutchinson's prosecution. D) had enjoyed widespread freedom to trade since the establishment of the colony. E) controlled John Winthrop.