Military success in the sixteenth century for the rulers of Europe depended primarily on their use of
a. mercenary armies.
b. conscripted soldiers from their vassal subjects.
c. galleons to form an armada in the navy.
d. New World silver to purchase new weapons.
e. gunpowder from the Turkish Empire.
a
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a) The "double standard" in morality should be abandoned. b) Women should be allowed to participate in trade and professions. c) Women should be allowed to vote. d) Women should be admitted into the armed forces. e) Women should be allowed to own property after marriage.
All of the following is true of Karl Marx EXCEPT:
a. He was the son of a prosperous attorney. b. He was exiled from Germany and France. c. He believed that the working class, or proletariat, would gradually attain power and slowly replace the upper classes through more of an economic evolution than revolution. d. He was strongly influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
Serbia became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1805
a. because the Ottoman Empire was busy suppressing the Greek uprising. b. but it was reabsorbed two decades later. c. after Russian threats prevented the Ottomans from disarming Serbians following a Janissary revolt. d. because Mohammad Ali recalled the Janissaries to Egypt. e. by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
U.S. investment in Latin America after World War II was mostly concentrated in
A) mining and oil. B) tourist industries. C) railroads and airlines. D) manufacturing.