Geoffrey Chaucer is famous for his fourteenth-century creation Canterbury Tales. What was so groundbreaking about this particular work at this time?
A) These were some of the bawdiest tales seen at this time in history.
B) This collection of stories included all classes of society and a wide array of topics that possessed unique insight, humor, and scholarship.
C) These tales departed from standard fabliaux and took well crafted slices of a previously untouchable segment of society.
D) His Inferno created mockery of the papal office.
E) None of these
B
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A. AIDS. B. a declining population. C. a too-rapid population growth. D. the vast differences between rural and urban Africans. E. ethnic rivalries.
The Almoravids were a warrior culture.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Nat Turner claimed to have been inspired to lead his rebellion by
A. a vision in the skies. B. abolition publications from the North. C. the beating he had received the day before. D. the murder of his wife and children.
How did irrigation create a rural class system in the West?
A) Native Americans owned water rights, so they became a wealthy, powerful class divided from white farmers. B) Rich Europeans invested in companies that sold diverted water and owned land, while westerners became poor tenant farmers. C) Irrigation created fertile land, which was sold to immigrants from southern and eastern Europe for small farms. D) Irrigation made once undesirable Indian reservations desirable, so Native Americans were displaced and made to live as nomads. E) Only the wealthy could afford to irrigate, creating a divide between landowners and workers.