Which of the following correctly matches the individual to his accomplishment?
A) Heraclides—wrote a book on geometry
B) Theophrastus—calculated the earth's circumference
C) Euclid—wrote a book on human anatomy
D) Archimedes—calculated the value of pi
D
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A member of a Committee of Observation and Safety in 1775 had responsibility for:
A) informing British officials of colonial smuggling. B) promoting British imports in the colonies. C) enforcing economic sanctions against Great Britain. D) reporting on the activities of radical colonial leaders.
After Egypt's Abdul Gamal Nasser seized power in his own right in 1954 he
a. followed a foreign policy sympathetic to the Soviet Union. b. nationalized the Suez Canal. c. restored King Farouk as a powerless symbol of the state. d. ended Farouk's land reform program as being too costly. e. sided with Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war.
Which of the following was the root cause of the Great Depression?
a) overproduction b) federal deficit c) trade wars d) factionalism
A Native American reported an appearance of Our Lady of _________ in 1531, in a place where the native goddess Tonantzin used to be venerated.
a. Tlaxcala. b. Acapulco. c. Lourdes. d. Guadalupe.