According to the Chachnama, Ibn Qasim died after:
a. He challenged the leader of a Hindu kingdom in the Sind to single combat and lost.
b. He blasphemed the Muslim God and converted to Christianity.
c. He was sewn up into a stifling raw leather sheath by his cousin's order.
d. He set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca and disappeared in a sandstorm.
c. He was sewn up into a stifling raw leather sheath by his cousin's order.
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A. The influence-peddling scheme of the "Keating five" which led to a housing "bubble." B. The deregulation of financial institutions, which allowed them to engage in risky practices such as "subprime" mortgages. C. The collapse of hundreds of savings and loan institutions, which had a ripple effect throughout the American economic system. D. The overregulation of Wall Street, which began in the Clinton administration, eventually paralyzed credit markets.
Why did the Black Panthers alarm white Americans?
A) They advocated self-defense and frequently patrolled black neighborhoods with guns. B) They were stressing a return to segregation, which had become unpopular. C) They advocated violence against all whites, regardless of political views. D) They hoped to move all African Americans to Africa, thereby removing an important part of the labor force.
President Johnson's administration changed its objective in Vietnam from victory to withdrawal in response to the
A) Battle of Khe Sanh. B) Tet Offensive. C) Vietcong attack on Pleiku. D) My Lai massacre.
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A) communism B) the Communist party C) democracy D) Russia's position in the former Soviet Union