Niccolò Machiavelli
What will be an ideal response?
Diplomat and political writer most famous for The Prince, a work instructing rulers on how to govern
You might also like to view...
The creator of Guernica was ________
A) T.S. Eliot B) Peter Eisenman C) Georges Braque D) Pablo Picasso
Who was the Habsburg empress whose country was attacked in the War of the Austrian Succession?
a. Eleanor b. Elizabeth c. Marie Antoinette d. Maria Theresa e. Catherine
A disastrous move ordered by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War was:
A) his advance toward Washington, D.C. during the Seven Days' Battles. B) his decision to move into Pennsylvania to relieve the Virginians who had been in the midst of so much of the fighting. C) the Battle of Antietam, where Lee had overextended his forces into Maryland and was forced into a retreat. D) his order to break the Union line at Gettysburg with a charge involving 12,500 men-two-thirds of whom were killed, wounded, or captured. E) leading Grant on a military chase that lasted for weeks and eventually put Lee's men in trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, for nine long, miserable months.
Which of the following enabled fifteenth-century C.E. mariners to routinely navigate roundtrip voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
A. European mariners figured out the wind patterns that govern the Atlantic and Pacific. B. Climatic changes made it safer to travel the Atlantic and Pacific in the fifteenth century C.E. C. Ship builders in the Americas designed and constructed ships capable of making the difficult journey. D. European rulers amassed enough wealth to finance the risky and expensive voyage.