Who allegedly contended that “Christians and spices” were the primary motives of the explorations of the fifteenth century?
A. Christopher Columbus
B. Vasco da Gama
C. Leo Africanus
D. Sonni Ali
E. Marco Polo
Answer: B
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a. recovering economically in the North b. slowing foreign immigration c. building commercial ties with the South d. settling western lands
Why was the ratification of the Constitution by New York so important?
A) Without New York ratifying the Constitution, there would be an insufficient number of ratifying states for the Constitution to be enacted. B) New York was emerging as the financial center of the country and no new national government could thrive without New York. C) It would be politically damaging for the Constitution to be defeated in a state where the Anti-Federalists were relatively weak. D) New York was seriously being considered as the new political capital of the United States.
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act was passed in
A) ?1941. B) ?1942. C) ?1943. D) ?1944. E) ?1945.
The normalization of relations between which two countries symbolically tore down the Iron Curtain?
A) Poland and Yugoslavia B) Britain and France C) Austria and Hungary D) Turkey and Greece