Who established sugar plantations in northeastern Brazil in the seventeenth century?
a. Spain
b. England
c. Portugal
d. the Dutch
e. France
d
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A) Denis Diderot B) Baron Montesquieu C) Thomas Hobbes D) Isaac Newton
The "golden age" historian Livy is well known for his
A) rejection of Latin prose in favor of Greek poetic forms. B) perceiving history in terms of sharp moral lessons. C) factual accuracy and critical judgment toward his sources and Rome's past. D) Epistles, which portrayed Rome as a degenerate society in a state of collapse. E) history of the Trojan Wars, which was the subject of the Aeneid.
The decline of Mycenaean Greece, and the start of the Dark Ages, was caused by
a. volcanic eruption b. invasion of Greek speakers from the north c. destruction of trade by Phoenician raiders d. inability to sustain a population with sufficient agriculture e. we don't know.
By articulating the need for a Jewish state in 1895 in Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), he became the father of political Zionism and the first head of the Zionist Organization (which later became the World Zionist Organization).
a. David Ben-Gurion b. Chaim Weizmann c. Simon Greenburg d. Theodor Herz e. Menachim Begin