Examine the picture of the mining operations at Potosí on page 547. What does this picture tell us about the Spanish interest in the Americas? Was it different from that of the other Europeans? What was life like for the native miners? What result would a high death rate have on the search for a labor force?
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A. Women were more suitable to leading the affairs of the republic than men. B. Women should be allowed every opportunity and task that men pursued, including participating in soldiering. C. Women should throw off the shackles of organized religion. D. Poor education for women was designed by men to keep them childlike.
Which of the following is NOT true of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
A. Folk singers Bob Dylan and Joan Baez performed. B. King's speech was similar to one he had previously given in Detroit. C. The crowd was racially integrated. D. SNCC chairman John Lewis spoke on the theme "Justice Now!"
All of the following contributed to Mali's rise EXCEPT
A. a period of decreased rainfall in West Africa. B. the ability of Mali's emperors to successfully breed horses. C. the retreat of the tsetse fly into Africa's rainforests. D. higher demand for gold in the Muslim states of Southwest Asia and Europe.
Philip V of Spain was the grandson of __________
A) Philip of Bourbon B) Louis XIV of France C) Charles II of England D) James II of England