For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance.
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Rommel's defeat in Africa was largely due to ________ .
a. Hitler sending reinforcements requested by Rommel b. superior British and American resources c. lack of military planning d. incompetent strategy
Which of the following played a central role in the collection of oral histories of Indian accounts of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century?
A) missionaries B) conquistadors C) mercantilists D) Huguenots
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires all originally came from
A. direct descendants of the powerful Indian conqueror Chandragupta Maurya. B. offshoots of the older Mongol empires. C. descendants of the prophet Muhammad. D. nomadic, Turkish-speaking tribes. E. renegade Byzantine generals.
Grant gained control of the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers with the capture of:
A) Forts Henry and Donelson. B) Pea Ridge and Glorieta Pass. C) Memphis and Vicksburg. D) Cairo and Shiloh.