Europeans turned to alternative routes to Asia when __________
A) religious fighting in Europe blocked traditional overland routes
B) renewed Islamic power in the Middle East cut off the Silk Road to Cathay
C) an outbreak of plague blocked trade routes through Central Asia
D) Columbus discovered the Americas
Answer: B
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A) and peaked in the late 1800s. B) and was borne out by an increase in the 1800s of premarital pregnancies. C) but gave way to images of women as asexual. D) but was replaced in the 1800s by ideas of innocence and chastity.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918
A) signified Germany?s victory over Romania. B) acknowledged Germany?s defeat in 1918. C) annexed Serbia to Austria. D) annexed vast Russian territories and population to Germany. E) signaled France?s exhaustion and possible defeat.
John Scopes was tried for __________
A) sending package bombs through the mail during the Red Scare B) evading the draft during World War I C) shouting "fire" in a crowded theater D) teaching the theory of evolution in a Tennessee high school E) abducting and murdering the infant son of Charles Lindbergh
Advocating romantic and aggressive nationalism and trying to ignore slavery, which group claimed Franklin Pierce as their most prominent member?
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