East Africa went from indigenous to Portuguese to Omani Arab control over the space of several centuries. Explain
What will be an ideal response?
Examine how the Portuguese seized much of East Africa as part of their desire to dominate Indian Ocean trade, and how and why the Omanis displaced them and created the Zanzibari Sultante.
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The Arab invasions and their presence in the Mediterranean area during the early Middle Ages:
A. created the essential conditions, directly and indirectly, for the birth of Western Europe as a distinctive cultural entity. B. retarded the emergency of a distinctive western European cultural entity. C. made trade with East Asia completely impossible. D. provided a protective barrier between Western Europe and hostile Persia. E. all of these answers.
Under the spoils system
A) collaboration between parties was encouraged. B) ?governmental jobs were granted on the basis of merit. C) governmental workers remained during several presidential administrations. D) government jobs were given as rewards to party loyalists. E) ?None of these are correct.
The father of history in the Western tradition is
a. Pericles. b. Herodotus. c. Theseus. d. Prometheus. e. Darius.
Martin Luther's work had enthusiastic popular support because
A) he attacked the sale of indulgences that the poor could not afford. B) many Christians shared his concern about the corruption of the church. C) many German princes saw this as a way to break away from the church. D) he supported the translation of the Bible from Latin into the vernacular languages. E) All these answers are correct.