Portugal and __________ dominated the Atlantic slave trade during the sixteenth century
A) the Netherlands
B) England
C) France
D) Spain
Answer: D
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a. They threatened to raise taxes if poor whites voted against them. b. They made free land, or homesteads, available to poor whites in most states. c. They attempted to create solidarity among whites by emphasizing racial divisions between blacks and whites. d. They supported public education in the belief that an educated electorate would keep the "better sort" inpower.
Which of the following was true of the slave populations of southern cities?
A) Slaves were never more than 10 percent of the population of a given city. B) Urban slave populations grew steadily between 1800 and 1860. C) Baltimore and New Orleans had large slave populations. D) Urban slavery was much harsher than rural slavery was.
Historians now believe that the centrality of religious life in Sumer
A) may be illusory because most surviving documents come from temple archives. B) is proven by the centrality of religion and faith in the Epic of Gilgamesh. C) is supported by the extensive archives of royal documents. D) was much greater than they had originally suspected. E) was based primarily on the king's claims to be a god on earth..
In the context of politics, France and England represent ________
A) a novel idea and its fulfillment B) similar developments C) two distinct strands of development D) the origins of capitalism