How did territorial expansion take form in the four great river valleys?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Harappan
1. expansion through force of arms
2. frontier was violent and expanding
B. Egypt
1. Nile supported travel and trade and was politically unifying
2. culture and trade flowed freely all the way to the Mediterranean
C. Mesopotamia
1. not as easy to unify but competition and victory over rivals helped
2. territorial claims could not be sustained with warring city-states
3. leadership in the region shifted among rival centers
D. China
1. Shang civilization was expanding south from its heartlands on the middle Yellow River, growing into a regionally dominant superstate
2. Chinese came to see imperial rule over the world as divinely ordained, and emperors treated the whole world as rightfully or potentially subject to them--called the "Mandate of Heaven"
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What did the results of the Confederate convention demonstrate?
a. The leaders of the Confederacy wanted to re-create the Union as it had been before the rise of the Republican Party. b. The leaders of the Confederacy believed that one day they would rule over all of North America. c. The leaders of the Confederacy wanted to re-create the United States as it had been under the Articles of Confederation. d. The leaders of the Confederacy hoped to establish a slaveholder’s utopia.
Perhaps the most immediately effective protest against the Stamp Act was the
A) organization of mob riots by the Sons of Liberty. B) passage of formal resolutions by the Virginia House of Burgesses. C) boycott of British goods by American merchants. D) formation of an intercolonial Stamp Act Congress.
Which of the following statements best applies to Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory?
A) His ideas were readily accepted by religious fundamentalists and cultural conservatives. B) His works were truly revolutionary in that they were the first to propose a theory of evolution. C) His theory emphasized the idea of the "survival of the fit" in which advantageous natural variants and environmental adaptations in organisms determine their survival. D) His On the Origin of Species described man's evolution from animal origins through natural selection. E) He envisioned utopian evolution, unlike Marx who predicted materialistic revolution.
Thermopylae
What will be an ideal response?