Arnold Toynbee believed that history's most important actors were
a. entrepreneurs.
b. the common people.
c. religious prophets.
d. monarchs.
e. philosophers.
c
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Although considered to be a strong point, why was Germany’s alliance system a problem?
A) Bismarck’s Reinsurance Treaty was renewed by Wilhelm II. B) Although an ally, Russia turned to Austria for an alliance. C) The pact with Austria broke down, as Hungary won its independence. D) It pushed England and France into an alliance. E) Germany’s Triple Alliance involved nations that wanted German colonies in Africa.
A major factor in the religious break between East and West revolved around:
A. the question of doctrinal authority and role of the Pope. B. the use of icons. C. the key clauses of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. D. the veneration of images of worship. E. all of these answers.
Historians who insist on a rigid separation between “prehistory” and “history” may be forgetting that: _____________.
a. The scientific instruments used by anthropologists have a high failure rate in the field. b. Archaeologists developed the parameters of field surveys long before “history” existed as a literary form. c. Written records can be highly unreliable documents, subject to manipulation before, during, and after their original production. d. Written records have survived from 2 million years ago, but the languages in which they were composed are, at least today, untranslatable.
According to advocates of the "divine right of kings," kings could be judged only by __________.
A. God B. the nobility C. the people D. fellow kings