Descartes’ “corpuscles” were
A) a forerunner of modern atomic and quantum theories.
B) part of his radical dualism between body and soul.
C) central to a new theory of blood circulation.
D) his terms for the discredited theory of heavenly beings.
E) his mechanistic explanation of the universe.
Ans: A
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A) to quell an uprising led by Martí B) to protect American missionaries C) to protect American sugar planters D) because it was a vulnerable Spanish colony
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a. making a big show of expanding the American arsenal of nuclear weapons. b. increasing America's military presence in Turkey and Iran. c. halting exports of American wheat to Russia and China. d. improving relations with both the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China at a time when tensionswere increasing between those two communist nations.
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a. Holland. b. Denmark. c. northeast England. d. Holland, Denmark, and northeast England.