The reduced military presence by both Habsburgs and Ottomans to safeguard their spice trade routes across East Africa, India and Southeast Asia paved the way for the________ to ultimately overtake both Portugal and the Ottoman Turks as leaders in this trade.

a. Italians
b. French
c. Dutch
d. English


c. Dutch

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Which of the following leaders rose through the ranks of the army and plunged Uganda into chaos using terror as a method of government by torturing and murdering thousands of opponents and victimizing minorities?

a. Idi Amin b. Jomo Kenyatta c. Kwame Nkrumah d. Robert Mugabe

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What was the chief tactic of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) when it first formed in 1960?

What will be an ideal response?

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The authors argue that women preachers might have been more common at camp meetings

because A) no one came to camp meetings. B) the latter were marginalized. C) women found it easier to travel to them. D) social norms were in abeyance at camp meetings.

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Female authors in the Heian period in Japan are notable both for their popularity and their use of

a. Japanese. b. Chinese c. the haiku form. d. the tanka form.

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