Although they were commonly called "Social Darwinists," advocates of economic, national, or racial "survival of the fittest" ideas actually drew less on biologist Charles Darwin than on
a. English philosopher Herbert Spencer and Yale professor William Graham Sumner.
b. German philosophers like G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche.
c. American literary figures like Jack London and Theodore Dreiser.
d. European scientists like Gregor Mendel and Louis Pasteur.
e. racist theorists like Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
a
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The Hittites
A) were an Indo-European speaking people. B) a Semitic speaking people. C) defeated and destroyed the Egyptians. D) conquered Greece. E) are also known as "Sea Peoples."
Built in the early 1200s, the Laibela monoliths were probably a reaction to:
a. The rediscovery of African spiritualism by the Aksumite kings. b. The Muslims' recovery of Jerusalem in 1187. c. The need for an Islamic pilgrimage center that was closer than Mecca. d. A threatened Arab invasion and the need for a systematic defense.
Which of the following was not known as one of the Five Civilized Tribes?
a. Cherokees b. Seminoles c. Choctaws d. Shoshones
The 1858 treaty between the Tokugawa government and foreign nations
a. opened up unlimited trade with the West. b. created an exchange of official ambassadors. c. gave extraterritoriality rights to the West. d. resulted in the daimyo's overthrow of the Meiji dynasty. e. established foreign military bases in Japan.