Publication of Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie was difficult because:
a. It was banned as subversive by the Catholic Church and the French monarchy.
b. Most of the articles had to be translated into English in order to widen its market.
c. All of its four volumes appeared in one set in 1772, forcing printers to work overtime.
d. His collaborator, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, died in the midst of the project.
a. It was banned as subversive by the Catholic Church and the French monarchy.
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A. The federal government can no longer investigate charges of voter intimidation. B. States can no longer require voter identification laws even if the purpose of the law is to reduce voter fraud and not to reduce voter turnout. C. States no longer allow voter registration drives. D. States that were previously subject to preclearance no longer have to get changes in voting procedures preapproved by the Department of Justice.
The Sunni position advocates all of the following except:
a. the umma is a theocratic entity. b. the caliph is the absolute temporal and spiritual leader. c. a person who professes to be a Muslim by supporting Muslim tenets cannot be excluded from the umma automatically by even a mortal sin. d. the umma is a state under the authority first of the precedent of the Prophet and Qu'ran and second by the consensus of Muslims.
The Battle of Lepanto was in what year?
A. 1280 B. 1326 C. 1402 D. 1516 E. 1571
The Neo-Assyrians were the first major state to adopt which of the following innovations?
A. war chariots B. infantry C. horse-mounted soldiers D. iron weaponry