One method used by Queen Isabella to curb the power of the aristocracy was
A) abolition of the right of primogeniture.
B) destruction of all baronial castles.
C) heavy taxation of noble estates.
D) appointment of officials from the lower nobility and the middle class.
D
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Which of the following arguments was most likely to have been used by southerners in the 1830s and 1840s to defend the institution of slavery?
A. It is true that slavery is an evil within human society, but for economic reasons it is presently a necessary evil. B. Society is ordered in a particular way by the dictates of nature, and nature has ordained that blacks are born to be slaves. C. All whites are born to be free and equal, but all non-whites are frowned on by God and were born to be slaves. D. Human beings are equal in the sight of God only if they have accepted the tenets of Christianity; therefore, non-Christians may be enslaved.
As China struggled with modernization, for what "crime" was Qin Jin executed?
a. Espousing populism b. Calling for open elections c. Pushing for an anti-corruption agency d. Advocating feminsim e. Arguing for extreme passivism
What effect did European colonization of the Americas have on the environment and peoples of the Americas?
What will be an ideal response?
All of the following were outcomes of Justinian's wars of reconquest EXCEPT
a) The permanent addition of Rome to the Byzantine Empire b) increased tax pressures on the government c) short-lived military successes in north Africa and Italy d) weakening of the empire's defenses on its eastern frontiers