In the early 1700s, the Ottomans instituted the following reforms, EXCEPT:

a. Went on a “gold standard” to stimulate trust in their paper money.
b. Cut the janissary rolls by half.
c. Enlisted Anatolian farmers into the military.
d. Sold lifelong tax farms (life leases) to wealthy courtiers, officers, and administrators.


a. Went on a “gold standard” to stimulate trust in their paper money.

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Greek control in northern Africa was supplanted by the ________ around 150 BCE

A) Aztecs B) Vikings C) British D) Romans

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One reason that The Cosby Show was culturally important is that

a. it portrayed a successful, upper-middle-class black family. b. it offered a bluntly honest depiction of inner-city black life. c. it brought militant black-power politics to prime time television for the first time. d. it established the template for 1980s sitcoms starring black actors in predominantly white casts.

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All of the following factors led to the unprecedented explosion of slavery in the United States after 1812 EXCEPT

A) growing world prices for cotton. B) technological advances. C) improvements in transportation. D) European crop failures.

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The Free Speech Movement organized by Mario Savio in 1964 had its start at __________ after this school's administration shut down an off-campus area where students could hand out political pamphlets or give speeches

A) Kent State University B) the University of California, Berkeley C) the University of Michigan D) the University of Mississippi

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