The Ottoman Turks achieved all the following EXCEPT
a. the conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
b. the conquest of Syria, North Africa, and the Arabian coast.
c. effective administration of an empire.
d. renewed cultural brilliance within the Muslim world.
e. the conquest of Hungary up to the gates of Vienna.
d
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Irrigation in Iran was different than other areas because of the large desert plain. How did they compensate for this?
a. digging long canals to the few interior lakes for transportation of water to crops. b. vertical shafts provided access to underground irrigation. c. construction of the earliest known water wheels moved irrigation across long distances. d. they had no agriculture but relied solely on mineral resources. e. they built dams and reservoirs to capture the mid-summer monsoonal rains.
All of the following are examples of technological changes that helped to make the Civil War a modern war EXCEPT for the:
a. rifle. b. ironclad ship. c. observation balloon. d. primitive hand grenade. e. field telephone.
The most famous of the Underground Railroad conductors was
A) ?Harriet Tubman. B) ?Stephen Douglass. C) ?Dred Scott. D) ?William Lloyd Garrison. E) ?Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the approach to history of ancient peoples?
a. Like the Mesopotamians and Egyptians, the Greeks rejected critical analysis and interpretation in the writing of history. b. All ancient societies, including the Greeks, considered history the record of divine wrath or benevolence. c. The Greeks based their histories of human actions on available evidence. d. Both the Hebrews and Greeks removed historical events from the realm of religious-mythical thought. e. The Greek achievement in history represented the synthesis of the innovations of earlier societies.