The stage was set for a cataclysmic shift in the course of history when
a. Europeans increasingly demanded less expensive goods from Asia.
b. Africa was established as a source of slave labor.
c. the Portuguese demonstrated the feasibility of long-range ocean navigation.
d. the Renaissance nurtured a spirit of optimism and adventure.
e. All of these
e
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A) Sojourner Truth B) Susan B. Anthony C) Frederick Douglass D) William Lloyd Garrison
Ancient Chinese literature served the purposes of
a. fostering universal oral communication, cohesion, and literacy. b. inculcating morality and political instruction. c. moralizing and deification. d. increasing the power of the merchant class and aiding the peasants. e. entertainment and escape.
The New Order referred to
A) Stalin's economic plans to create a strong industrial society in Russia. B) Hitler's policy of racial imperialism. C) Mussolini's Italian empire. D) Roosevelt's plans to pull the United States out of the Great Depression. E) Imperial Japan's empire, newly freed from European colonial rule.
Beginning in the 1990s and on the basis of the study of terra preta, scholars proposed that indigenous peoples in the Amazonian rainforests:
a. Had employed slash and burn techniques, reducing trees to nutrient-poor ash. b. Had experienced a devastating drought that caused them to relocate en masse. c. Had employed slash and char techniques, reducing trees to nutrient-rich charcoal. d. Had experienced a devastating flood that caused them to relocate en masse.