What led to the decline of cities in the seventh and eighth centuries?
A. Fear of attack
B. Less trade being conducted
C. No centralized government
D. Lack of strong public authority
E. All of these.
Answer: E
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Indian removal bill? a) Indians "are men, endowed with kindred faculties and power with ourselves" and therefore entitled to their share of the worldly blessings. b) Indians were "noble savages, superior in virtue to the whites." c) The white effort to take over Indian lands showed that whites were insatiably greedy, "like the horse-leech." d) The Indians were seeking the same rights that the Founding Fathers sought in the American Revolution. e) Taking Indian lands was incompatible with the principles of liberty.
Hatshepsut was a strong-willed woman who became “king” (the title of “queen” did not exist) over __________ in ca. 1479 BCE.
a. Babylon. b. Phoenicia. c. Crete. d. Egypt.
What did the National Convention do with regard to religion?
a. It took measures to strengthen the Roman Catholic Church. b. It issued an edict allowing for total religious freedom. c. It took measures to de-Christianize the republic. d. It made the republic completely atheistic. e. It expelled the Jews from France.
As actors, Paul Robeson and Lena Horne both
a. found that, despite their acclaimed performances on stage, they would only be cast in the roles of servants in films. b. tried to accept only roles which portrayed blacks positively and resisted playing demeaning or stereotypical roles. c. refused to combine their politics with their film careers, a stance which made them more palatable to white audiences than other black actors of the day. d. cultivated screen personae based on mumbling, shuffling buffoonery which film scholars now recognize as sly digs against racial stereotypes.