What was the significance of the Battle of Tours in 732?
A) The Muslim advance into Europe was halted.
B) Francia was unified under the Merovingians.
C) Italy was temporarily brought under Byzantine rule.
D) Charlemagne absorbed Saxony into his kingdom.
E) The Anglo-Saxons established a foothold in Britain.
Answer: A
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A) by formulating a hypothesis and conducting experiments to test the hypothesis B) by building a telescope and recording observations of planetary movements C) by proving that texts that placed the Earth at the center had been falsified D) by citing ancient writers who postulated that the sun was at the center
In the Supreme Court cause of Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that
a. federal officials had a responsibility to return fugitive slaves but local state officials did not. b. both federal and local state officials had an equal responsibility to return fugitive slaves. c. although the Constitution allowed slaveholders to reclaim fugitive slaves, it did not require local state or federal officials to assist them in the process. d. fugitive slaves could not be reclaimed from states which refused to recognize the legality of slavery.
In an evolutionary context, why were Native Americans at a disadvantage compared to Europeans?
What will be an ideal response?
Shifts in Roman __________ helped tie young Roman elites to the Hellenistic world.
A. education B. traditional ideals of the family C. religion D. slavery practices