To free himself from the authority of Governor Velázquez, Cortés
A) promised great wealth to his men if they defied Velázquez.
B) scuttled all his ships to make return to Cuba impossible.
C) proclaimed that he owed obedience only to the emperor Charles V.
D) made shrewd use of Spanish medieval traditions of municipal autonomy.
D
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All of the following are true about the “Rites Controversy” EXCEPT:
a. High officials in the Church considered the Jesuit liturgical and doctrinal adaptations to be a problem. b. High officials in the Church disapproved of the Jesuits’ use of tea and rice instead of wine and bread in the Chinese Christian Eucharist. c. High officials in the Church disapproved of the Jesuits allowing Chinese Christians to continue their veneration of Confucius and maintenance of ancestral shrines. d. High officials in the Church disapproved of the decrees of Kangxi and his successor Yongzheng that Chinese Christians must follow the Jesuit orthodoxy.
How did the Dawes Severalty Act try to "civilize" the Indians?
A) by turning them into landowning ranchers and farmers B) by making public education compulsory on reservations C) by threatening to exterminate Indians if they refused to adopt white culture D) by sending Christian missionaries to convert Indians E) by arranging for their children to be fostered out to white families
All of the following are true of Copernicus except that
A) his findings helped with calendar reform. B) his work appealed to other astronomers in part because it was useful. C) he stated that heliocentrism was a fact rather than a mathematical construct. D) he did not resolve all the problems raised by his system. E) he never asserted that the earth moved around the sun.
Aztec legend stated that women who died in childbirth were reborn as __________
A) goddesses B) hummingbirds C) cobras D) white women