Explore competition between Christian forces in Asia. Why were they ultimately rejected, compared to other parts of the world where Christianity came to dominate?
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Which of the following were the primary reasons that creating dynastic governments did not create strong government authority in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
a) A variety of local cultures and languages and a multitude of local lords meant that centralization moved slowly or not at all. b) The new dynastic governments were mainly concerned with controlling court life and bothered little with the countryside. Consider This: What do you know about how an individual viewed his or her own “country” in this period? See 1.8: Narrative: Breaking the Chain. c) Renaissance humanism inspired local lords to better educate themselves and enforce their rights against the monarchs in court. Consider This: What do you know about how an individual viewed his or her own “country” in this period? See 1.8: Narrative: Breaking the Chain. d) The new dynasties believed that by diffusing their authority they could keep locals from revolting. Consider This: What do you know about how an individual viewed his or her own “country” in this period? See 1.8: Narrative: Breaking the Chain.
What two changes seem to underlie the phenomenon of the rise of heretical movements during the Later Middle Ages?
a. a desire by the clergy to gain the wealth of lay people and of lay people to gain the wealth of the church b. the militarization of European society and its increasing wealth and prosperity c. the rise of many charismatic kooks and charlatans and a church that was intolerant of them d. imperfections in lay religion detected by a legalistic clergy and lay people's increased demands on the clergy
Along with preventing new colonies, the Monroe Doctrine was also intended to prevent
a. the new Latin American republics from expanding their borders. b. European nations from intervening in the affairs of Latin American countries. c. the United States from intervening in the affairs of Latin American countries. d. dictatorships in Latin American governments. e. Russian control of Alaska.
Children of the baby boom a. comprised a lucrative market for prepared baby food and other infant products. b. grew into teenagers who spend $20 billion a year on clothes and music. c. became the foundation of the youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s. d. did not have access to the disposable income to spend substantial money on consumer goods such as clothesand music
e. All of these choices are correct.