Who was responsible for reconstructing Homer's mental map of the world and prompted questions about finding previously unknown continents in the ocean?
a. Ptolemy
b. Strabo
c. Botticelli
d. Prince Henry
Ans: b. Strabo
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a) tobacco b) cotton c) rice d) indigo
England's radical Whig pamphleteers
A) were notable models of "differential" thinking. B) condemned the Enlightenment for questioning the power of God. C) condemned the policy of "salutary neglect" as dangerous to imperial stability. D) saw a fundamental threat to liberty from corrupt governmental tyrants.
Nationalism to unify Italy was initially promoted most strongly by
a. Giuseppe Mazzini. b. Leonardo de Cavour. c. the Papal States. d. the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. e. Giuseppe Garabaldi.
The monasteries of the Merovingian era were modeled on a monastery founded in 529 near Rome by Benedict of Nursia (ca.480–545) and
a. Spread throughout Europe from the Mediterranean. b. Were not important in spreading Christianity among the Germanic tribes. c. Were usually destroyed by war-bands who mistrusted Christianity and the monks. d. Were primarily interested in acquiring land. e. Consisted of poorly trained and illiterate Merovingian monks.