What is the difference between Sunni and Shi’ite Islam?
What will be an ideal response?
Briefly describe some of the basic beliefs of the two Islamic sects. Are these differences more religious, intellectual, or political? How have they become so? What kinds of interactions do the two sects have with one another?
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The Gadsden Purchase was partly a result of:
a. both sections agreeing that the country needed the land to protect its borders b. the desire of manufacturers for development of the water power of the Colorado River c. northerners wanting to control the best passes through the Rocky Mountains d. southerners wanting more territory and the chance to build a Pacific railroad through the area
Between the mid-1840s and the mid-1850s, the American economy
A) experienced one of the most remarkable periods of growth in the history of the world. B) continued to stagnate as the result of the Panic of 1837. C) reflected the general mood of caution and pessimism. D) suffered a series of severe depressions which halted and reversed previous economic progress.
Who briefly succeeded the Portuguese as the major suppliers of African slaves to English plantations in the 1640s?
a. the Dutch b. Spain c. the French d. None of these answers are correct.
Cultures that foster virtues oriented toward future rewards, in particular, perseverance and thrift, reflect what Hofstede called a:
A) short-term orientation B) future bias C) long-term orientation D) future-orientation E) past progressive orientation