Look at the selection drawn from Tacitus (see Textbook: Sources from the Past: Tacitus on Corruption in the Early Roman Empire). According to Tacitus, what were the problems facing Rome during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius?
What will be an ideal response?
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
a) had never met before serving together on the expedition. b) had met while serving on Jefferson's staff. c) had met during the Indian wars of the 1790s. d) had served on two previous expeditions together, one to Florida and one to Minnesota. e) were boyhood friends who had known each other virtually all their lives.
Italy attacked Ethiopia in 1935 for all of the following reasons except
a. to divert Italian attention from Fascist corruption. b. to avenge an earlier Italian defeat. c. to have access to the oil fields in North Africa. d. to restore Roman imperial glory.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil might not have become such a big, important industry without the invention of the
a. Bessemer process. b. automobile. c. electric lightbulb. d. kerosene lamps. e. railroads.
Why did England pass the Coercive Acts?
What will be an ideal response?