In the fourteenth century, people who began to question the authority of the international church and its clergy used all the following arguments except that the
a. pope had no authority over kings.
b. state needed no guidance from the papacy.
c. clergy was not above secular law.
d. pope was indeed the Antichrist.
e. church was only a spiritual body whose power does not extend to the political realm.
d
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A) Mohandas Gandhi. B) Jiang Jieshi. C) Puyi. D) Sun Yatsen. E) Mao Zedong.
One of the most significant consequences of the writings of Bartolomé Las Casas was
A) they prompted Spanish authorities to make radical reforms in improving the Spanish relations and policies concerning the Indians of North and South America. B) they were used by Protestant enemies of Catholic Spain to create a long-lasting story of Spanish cruelty in the Americas. C) they prompted many Spanish priests working in North and South America to resign from the Catholic priesthood. D) they caused other European colonizers such as the English to use different techniques and adopt different attitudes in their relations with the Indians of the Americas.
One of the central debates during the Clinton presidency was over the role and scope of the federal government. What major policy initiatives during his first term illustrate this debate and what groups supported which initiative?
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Which of the following statements best describes the Scientific Revolution?
a. The new science grew gradually from the challenge posed by Copernicus. b. Copernicus largely completed the Scientific Revolution himself. c. Copernicus's ideas were ignored for about a century, after which the Scientific Revolution took off. d. The Scientific Revolution became a battle between those who had a new, perfectly accurate, view of the universe and those who refused to entertain change. e. The Scientific Revolution spread slowly and only in Protestant countries.