The Byzantine Emperor Basil II was infamous for blinding over 14,000 Turkish troops before allowing them to return home
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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The late-1800s mass migration across the Mississippi and into the West was sparked by the
A) Homesteading Act. B) discovery of gold in California. C) Lewis and Clark expedition. D) passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.
In the period known as ____, colonial governments saw their efforts in moral terms and put greater emphasis on improving social services and education
a. new colonialism b. high colonialism c. associationalism d. new nationalism e. moral colonialism
Which of the following statements best conveys the text's view of the end of the Middle Ages?
a. "A dark age comparable to the three centuries following Rome's fall descended on Europe." b. "Medieval society's economic and political institutions and technological skills underwent a prolonged period of decay." c. "Medieval civilization began its decline in the thirteenth century; however, no dark age followed." d. "The waning of the Middle Ages opened up possibilities for another stage in Western civilization: the modern age." e. "The waning of the Middle Ages was curiously similar to the waning of the Greek Dark Age."
In the late nineteenth century, the majority of big-city machines were
a. Republican. b. Democratic. c. Greenback Labor. d. bipartisan. e. Socialist-Labor.