Maintaining the growing armies required in the Middle Ages was made possible by:
A. allowing them to live in the lord's own household.
B. the support of special monetary payments.
C. loyalty to their lord.
D. granting vassals land as a "tenement."
E. an increase in food supply.
D
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a. They moved along lines of latitude to the West. b. They moved mainly from the Northeast to the Southwest. c. They moved mainly from the Southeast to the West. d. They angled northward.
What were the reasons for China's expansion and then decline as an economic power during the eighteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
Dadaism embraced the observation that a. Dadaism is "calculated irrationality."
b. "beauty is dead.". c. "like everything in life, Dada is useless.". d. "through reason, man becomes a tragic and ugly figure.". e. all of the above
Brutal insensitivity to the needs of indigenous peoples was a hallmark of expansionism; which of the following is not true?
A) The letter from Chief Montwhiwa to Queen Victoria was ignored. B) Large tracts of land in the French Congo was seized and administrated by private rubber companies. C) Leopold II mercilessly exploited the Congo, systematically torturing and killing its people. D) British-led forces slaughtered 20,000 Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman. E) An uprising in southwest Africa against German rule led to the killing of approximately 60,000 Herero people.