Vasco Nuñez de Balboa was the first European to ________
A) reach the Indian Ocean
B) visit China
C) realize the Americas were continents
D) sail across the Atlantic
C
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After the __________were pushed back to Iraq and Iran and converted to Islam, the Mamluks were able to terminate the Crusader Kingdom in 1291 with the conquest of Acre.
a. Seljuks b. Marinids c. Mongols d. Fatimids
What Persian-speaking people dominated the trade along the Silk Road in Central Asia?
a. Persians b. Kushans c. Mamluks d. Huns e. Sogdians
Which of the following was not a social result of the Black Death epidemic?
a. A demand by laborers for higher pay b. A call for democracy c. Peasant revolutions d. An increase in per capita production e. An end of serfdom for all intents and purposes
What was the attitude of lords to peasants opening wastelands to cultivation?
a. They discouraged it for fear of a drain on labor available to them. b. They encouraged it by promising serfs freedom in exchange for moving to new lands. c. They confiscated newly opened land from peasants and enserfed them. d. They encouraged it by offering to buy the land from the peasants once it was improved. e. They threatened to increase the services of serfs who moved to the new lands.