What factors help explain the surge in anti-Jewish persecution in Europe in the period between the late twelfth and fourteenth centuries?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Jews forced into commercial professions in towns
2. The separateness of Jews, living in their own communities
3. Confiscation of money and property by monarchs
4. Well-articulated Jewish cultural tradition with a long history
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What was the relative effect of trade versus religion in the development of North Africa and East Africa? How did trade and the growth of Islam in North Africa and East Africa serve to elevate the regional, Middle Eastern, and European awareness of African kingdoms?
What will be an ideal response?
The 1920 census revealed that _____
A) slightly more than half of the population lived in cities B) most people still resided in rural areas C) southern cities were experiencing a population boom D) a third of the population had migrated to the South E) African Americans were migrating from the North
How did John Winthrop help start the Pequot War?
A) He killed an important Pequot leader. B) He formed an alliance with the Iroquois. C) He inadvertently settled on Pequot land. D) He spread rumors of plans for a massive Indian attack.
a stock market characterized by optimism and rising prices
What will be an ideal response?