What crop, which was introduced from the New World, allowed a more certain food supply in Europe and enabled more children to survive to adulthood and rear children of their own?

A. wheat
B. squash
C. potato
D. corn


Answer: C

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As a result of Pinckney's Treaty, the Spanish:

A) granted Florida to the United States. B) barred Americans from navigating or settling on the Mississippi. C) forfeited their claim to Florida. D) accepted the Mississippi and 31st parallel as borders.

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Although individual rulers converted to Islam at different times, Islam became the official religion of the Il-khanate under the reign of

a. Möngke.
b. Hülegü.
c. Ghazan.
d. Arigh Boke.
e. Muhammad Özbeg.

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The stream of consciousness is best described as

a. structured, composed memory. b. a stream of thoughts without clear differentiation between the conscious and unconscious. c. a psychiatrist's determination of a patient's major self-insights. d. modern mysticism in which the divine flows directly into a person's consciousness. e. the growing interconnectedness of people in modern society.

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