Cervantes? masterpiece, Don Quixote de la Mancha, is a satire about
A) knighthood and chivalry.
B) the humanists? fascination with classical antiquity.
C) the middle class.
D) the Church and its ceremony.
E) all of the above.
A
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The first big business in the United States was the
A) cattle industry. B) textile industry. C) steel industry. D) coal industry. E) railroad industry.
To avoid eradication by Chiang's army, Mao led his PLA from South China to the North China town of Yan'an. This journey has come to be called the
a. Great Leap Forward. b. Long March. c. Northern March. d. Northern Expedition. e. Long Expedition.
In “Patterns Up Close,” the author believes all of the following to be true about ritual human sacrifice EXCEPT:
a. The survival of traditional blood rituals within polytheism was a pattern that distinguished the early American empires from their Eurasian counterparts. b. 126 skeletons of human sacrificial victims have been excavated at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlán. c. From first-hand reports and archeological evidence, we can ascertain the exact extent it was practiced by Aztec and Inca societies. d. It is possible that imperial propaganda machines worked in the Aztec and Inca empires to intimidate enemies.
As a response to the protests that culminated in hundreds of thousands protesting in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government
a. asked the United Nations to bring in peacekeepers. b. used force, killing hundreds and arresting thousands. c. accepted reforms. d. disbanded the Communist government and allowed free elections. e. attacked Japanese naval bases in Samoa.