The preeminent European maritime power in the fifteenth century was
A. England.
B. Portugal.
C. France.
D. Spain.
E. the Netherlands.
Answer: B
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A) Blacks had no interest in land issues after receiving freedom. B) Blacks wanted to leave the South and secure land in the northern states after receiving freedom. C) Blacks wanted their own private lands after receiving freedom. D) Blacks wanted southern whites to retain cotton lands despite blacks being free.
Which country set the standard for seventeenth-century absolutism?
A) England B) France C) Austria D) Prussia
At the arrival of Perry's ships, his interpreter noted that the Japanese in Tokyo
a. had already begun to modernize. b. were a deeply tradition-bound society with little toleration for innovation. c. appeared to have no signs of the modern world as a result of their isolation. d. had a great aversion to trade and commerce and no middle class.
Enlightenment economic thought included
a. acceptance of self-interest as something good. b. praise for entrepreneurship and free markets unencumbered by governments. c. the inevitability of progress in capitalism. d. the belief that the laws of economics could be discovered. e. all of the above