Why were Native Americans not widely used as slaves on sugar plantations?
a. The Church condemned slavery as immoral.
b. They couldn't learn European languages.
c. Their populations were too small due to European diseases.
d. They were viewed as lazy and shiftless and refused to work.
e. They fought back too well and too often to be profitable.
c
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a. Rome b. Persia c. Babylonia d. Mohenjo-Daro e. Greece
Adoption of farming might be considered an extension of __________.
A. more egalitarian societies B. Archaic forest efficiency C. environmental adaptation D. falling populations
Which of the following contributed to the rise of a new kind of politics in the 1820s and 1830s?
A) Economic booms and busts gave rise to the need for a more responsive government. B) The contraction of voting rights left only the elite to participate in politics. C) The nation was increasingly straying away from politics. D) The decline of politics meant that only two parties were competing against each other. E) The need for industrialization paved the way for reform.
What did the Medici family of the fifteenth century accomplish?
A) They established a new house of bankers, which restored financial power to the city of Florence, allowing them to dominate its political and cultural life as well. B) They ousted the Bardi family from power to secure control of all Italian banking. C) They financed Masaccio's trinity, which began the Humanist movement in Florence. D) They were the financiers to Kind Edward III of England in his campaign against the French in the Hundred Years' War. E) They ousted the Peruzzi family from power to secure control of all Italian banking.