From the 1430s onward, the Medici family held political and cultural dominance in what Italian city?
A) Florence
B) Milan
C) Rome
D) Mantua
E) Venice
Answer: A
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A) development of urban centers. B) a belief in monarchy. C) human sacrifices. D) the horse. E) theocratic systems.
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A) free public education for black children and voting rights for freedmen B) Republican-controlled state legislatures and ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment C) state constitutions with universal male suffrage and ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment D) abolishment of the Black Codes and suppression of white terror groups
The diplomatic efforts of President Woodrow Wilson toward Latin America
A. were the product of considerable interest and experience in international affairs. B. were similar to those of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. C. curtailed the use of the military as a tool of diplomacy. D. were decidedly non-expansionist. E. became known as the "good neighbor" policy.
After the death of Theodoric, the Ostrogothic kingdom
A) prospered under very able rulers. B) was defeated by the Byzantines, reducing Rome as a center of Mediterranean culture. C) allied itself with the Vandals against the Visigoths. D) dominated Mediterranean trade for the next fifty years. E) converted the Germans to orthodox Christianity.