Why did the Portuguese want to find Prester John?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: They believed that he had a sizable army that could defeat the Muslims.

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The association of black labor, white leisure, and white ________________ was central to the planter regime and would come to define the South's identity

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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How did jazz influence the lives of the musicians who performed it?

What will be an ideal response?

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In response to increasing tensions between the colonists and the British, the colonists

a. began to pay British taxes. b. organized militias. c. burned Anglican churches. d. demanded the right to vote.

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The scope of the antislavery lecture circuit suggests what about the abolitionist cause?

a) Abolitionist speakers were able to reach a large and broad audience. b) Abolitionists were limited in their access to public forums. c) Abolitionists were only well regarded only in the South. d) Abolitionists primarily operated in local and state politics.

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