What disease decimated the Byzantine population in the 500s?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: the bubonic plague
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A) ?Robert Kennedy B) ?Robert McNamara C) ?Dean Rusk D) ?Sergeant Shriver
Matteo Ricci tried to introduce what into Qing China?
a. Catholicism b. Industrialization c. Latin d. Opium e. Tea
Southerners wanted a transcontinental railroad to travel a Southern route for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:
a. The railroad would channel the flow of gold from California through their region. b. The railroad would allow new settlement. c. The railroad would spread cotton agriculture. d. The railroad would bring badly needed industrial development to the South.
It can be argued that Islamic "fundamentalism" was in large part
1. the result of the economic decline caused by the exhaustion of Middle Eastern oil reserves. 2. inevitable after the creation of an independent Israel in 1948. 3. caused by the preaching rhetoric of Abdul Nasser. 4. a rational reaction to the threatened loss of cultural identity to the forces of materialism. 5. the consequence of the West's victory in the Gulf War.