Who did the English make a commercial alliance with in northwest India?
a. ?the Marathas
b. ?the Parsis
c. the Rajputs
d. ?the Mughals
e. ?the Dutch
b
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A) domestic labor B) industrial factory labor C) field labor D) housing construction labor
In the presence of the German emperor Ferdinand III in 1672, Otto von Guericke demonstrated that:
a. Blood circulates from the heart through pulmonary capillaries and back again. b. The heliocentric theory was valid beyond any reasonable doubt. c. The political theory of absolute rule would produce the best state. d. A vacuum could be created by pumping the air out of two sealed spheres.
Why did the United States choose the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the sites for the dropping of two atomic bombs?
A) Both cities were of significant military value to the Japanese. B) Both cities had been spared from earlier firebombing and presented virgin grounds that would show the full impact of each bomb. C) Both cities had resisted earlier attempts by American troops to seize them by land. D) Both cities were major cultural and political centers for the Japanese.
Blaise Pascal tried to reconcile religion and science by arguing that _____________.
A. innate ideas allowed humans to conceive of God B. the laws of motion implied that something or someone had to initiate motion to start with; hence, God existed C. the heart drew on intuition as the mind drew on logic, but the heart provided a deeper view D. deism would not explain miracles; hence, science and religion had to be compatible E. God gave humans the knowledge and reason to analyze the workings of the universe, but not the ability to create one