What was the immediate cause of the First Punic War?
a. Carthaginian treachery in the Pyrrhic Wars
b. Roman colonization in North Africa
c. Carthaginian expansion along the Spanish and Italian coasts
d. Rome sending an army to Sicily
e. Cato's decision to destroy Carthage
d
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The treaties signed in September, 1951 restored Japanese independence, ended Japanese claims to its former colonies and territories, and
a. permitted the Soviet Union to control Hokkaido. b. created a defensive alliance between the Soviet Union and Japan. c. provided the United States with military bases in Japan. d. ended the entrenched social discrimination of Koreans resident in Japan. e. established Christianity along with Buddhism and Shintoism as Japan's official religions.
The astronomers of the Kerala school had calculated elliptical orbits for the visible planets a century in advance of __________.
a. Galileo Galilei. b. Johannes Kepler. c. Tycho Brahe. d. Ptolemy.
What was the purpose of the New Laws for the Indies?
a. To allocate land in the Americas to Spanish settlers. b. To celebrate the expansion of Catholicism. c. To declare that the territories of the Western Hemisphere belonged to Spain. d. To alleviate abuses of the indigenous population. e. To establish a Spanish system of government in the Empire.
Mesopotamian priests
a. inherited their positions from their fathers. b. bought their positions from the temples. c. were chosen by the kings. d. were chosen by the gods through oracles. e. were chosen by ritual combat.