Which of the following was an architectural innovation attributed to the Romans?
A) concrete vaults
B) Doric capitals
C) flying buttresses
D) marble spires
A) concrete vaults
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Popular and government support for the abolition of the slave trade was highest in the __________
A) 1500s B) 1600s C) 1700s D) 1800s
In her path-breaking text The Second Sex, the influential French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argued that
A) women should renounce all contact with men and set up their own self-governing communes. B) women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings. C) the Second World War had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males. D) a "sexual revolution" was impossible and discouraged women outside of France from taking up her ideas. E) there was absolutely no hope in improving the status of women in the near future.
All territories within France controlled directly by the king, as in the case of the lands controlled by Hugh Capet between 987 and 996 were called his ___________.
a. Seigneurie. b. Demesne. c. Province. d. Duchy.
What was the punishment imposed on China by foreigners for the Boxer Rebellion?
A. Manchu leader, Sun Yat-sen, was forced to abdicate. B. Foreign governments insisted that the Manchus institute repression throughout China. C. Foreign governments took control of much of China, claiming its territories as their own. D. The Chinese government was forced to pay heavy fines and watch as foreign troops destroyed temples. E. Government buildings were burned to the ground.