Unlike earlier empires in the region, the Persian Empire ________
A) was centered in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys
B) forged direct contact between south Asia and Africa
C) included diverse peoples
D) included both Egypt and Mesopotamia
B
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How did transportation affect industry and agriculture in the early nineteenth century?
a. Improved land and water transportation changed the United States from an agricultural to an industrial society. b. Improved land and water transportation allowed the United States to develop more industry and create a cash crop agricultural system. c. Developments in land and water transportation were slow, so the United States remained an agricultural society with virtually no industry. d. Because land transportation was so poor, water transportation caused industry and agriculture to be confined to the East coast. e. Because water transportation was cheaper than land transportation, industry soon replaced agriculture in the United States.
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil of Ohio became the dominant oil refining corporation in America because of all of the following except which of these?
a. Rockefeller employed managers and executives with good technical skills. b. Standard Oil squeezed rebates from railroads in return for large shipments of crude and refined oil. c. Rockefeller devised several illegal methods for manipulating the price of refined oil. d. Standard Oil's growth fueled further growth, until it was a virtual monopoly.
The purpose of Stalin's Cominform group was to:
A. improve communications among communist nation-states. B. increase communications with noncommunist governments. C. devise a master plan for generation of Soviet propaganda. D. spread communism throughout the world. E. develop better control over the dissemination of information in the Communist world.
What group emerged as the most important radical element in French politics at the beginning of the French Revolution?
a. Bonapartists b. Papists c. Communards d. Loyalists e. Jacobins