The significance of Octavian's willingness to give up his powers in 27 B.C. rests in
a. the magnitude of his military failure.
b. his belief that it created legitimacy and removed his reign from the taint of despotism.
c. his hope that the Senate would proclaim him a god.
d. the fact that the Senate accepted the offer.
e. the fact that it never happened; his admirers later created this myth.
b
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a. eastern coal miners b. construction workers c. clerical workers d. government workers
What caused President Ford's inability to distance himself from the Republican Party's scandals of the early 1970s?
A. his maintaining of Henry Kissinger B. his pardoning of Richard Nixon C. his failed economic policies D. his support for Vietnam draft dodgers
The "demographic transition" identifies the
A) growth of a large ethnic minority population in late eighteenth-century America. B) famine, disease, and war that accompany world population growth. C) decline of the birth rate in early nineteenth-century America. D) late eighteenth century debate on whether humans were capable of improving society.
How did the Qur'an attempt to protect women from male abuse?
A) Houses and marriage goods were the sole property of women. B) Young children and women of childbearing age were confined to the harem. C) A woman's status was restricted to protect her from non-family males. D) A man could marry up to four wives but only if he could properly provide for them. E) Women were to be veiled to protect the family honor.