Most of our information about the lives of Chinese peasants comes from all of the following sources EXCEPT:
a. Diaries and family histories kept by peasant leaders.
b. Literary sources compiled by the scholar-gentry.
c. Chronicles produced by Westerners traveling in China.
d. Local histories and gazetteers.
a. Diaries and family histories kept by peasant leaders.
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All of the following problems plagued the effort to establish a permanent colony of Roanoke in the late 1580s by Walter Raleigh and his English colonists EXCEPT
A) colonists settled on land in and near areas that were claimed and populated by hostile Algonquian Indians. B) the failure of resupply ships to return to Roanoke in 1588 because of an impending threatened naval attack of Spain against England. C) a catastrophic drought between 1587 and 1589 creating food shortages and increased tensions with local Indians. D) despite ample land incentives for families to settle in Roanoke, it became nearly exclusively a colony of men.
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff ___________________.
A. weakened the economy because other nations raised their tariff rates in response B. strengthened the economy by keeping foreign goods out of the country C. strengthened the economy by stimulating competition that brought prices down D. weakened the economy by making foreign products cheaper than American products
Why did John Locke, along with most scholars of medicine, hold the practice of dissection in disdain?
A) Working with one's hands received less academic prestige than did intellectual work. B) Cutting into a human cadaver was a desecration of the immortal soul's earthly temple. C) Philosophers required no knowledge of the natural world in order to find truth. D) The exercise only confirmed what Galen had already discovered in ancient times. E) Andreas Vesalius had already made anatomical drawings available for medical students.
The great mosque constructed in Jerusalem at the site of the old temple is the
a. Dome of the Rock. b. Alhambra. c. Hegira Sophia. d. Cordoba Mosque. e. the Blue Mosque.