The earliest big cities in Mesopotamia arose about
a. 4000 B.C.E.
b. 3000 B.C.E.
c. 2500 B.C.E.
d. 2000 B.C.E.
b
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Columbus's log of his first encounter with the New World and its inhabitants reveals which of the following?
A. He wanted to profit from the land he had found by exploiting its natural resources, including its people. B. He wanted to exterminate all Native Americans and completely destroy the cultures they had built. C. He insisted that Europeans had come merely to observe, not to change, the cultures of the New World's native inhabitants. D. He believed that his primary goal should be to Christianize the native inhabitants of the land he had found.
One effect of socialist ideals being openly expressed was the
a. move of progressives toward moderate reforms. b. demise of the Socialist Party by 1910. c. nationalization of the nation's railroads. d. downfall of fundamentalism in the South.
The idea of an afterlife and the belief that salvation was achieved by good conduct in this life were ideas associated with the worship of
A) Seth. B) Akhenaton. C) Amon. D) Osiris. E) the Feather of Truth.
Comte's system of positivism embraced modernity by
a. arguing that humans were indeed the product of evolution, and by virtue of their success, Europeans were superior in the world. b. posing three phases of human development, with the last phase (modern) embracing science and quantitative methods for proving social theory. c. rejecting the artifice of Romanticism and returning instead to the values of the Enlightenment. d. cataloguing human accomplishments by degrees of technology. e. none of these methods.