Why did Europeans find non-overland routes to Asia?
A) Traveling by sea was easier.
B) The oceanic journey to Asia was quicker than going by land
C) Societies in the Middle East cut off the Silk Road.
D) Trading posts in Africa offered supplies for the journey.
C
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Which of the following was NOT an advantage for the South?
A) Southerners could be sustained by their sense of destiny in fighting for independence. B) The South would be fighting a defensive war. C) The South was a large area, as big as Western Europe. D) The South possessed a solid, sizable infrastructure. E) Southerners could hope that nations dependent on their cotton would join on their side.
What was true of William Shakespeare?
a. He was the son of a famous actor. b. He was an actor as well as a writer. c. He was hated by the Elizabethan nobility. d. He was seen as a failure in his own time. e. He was instrumental in creating the King James version of the Bible.
How did the Republication nomination process in the 1912 presidential election reflect the need for political reform?
A. Roosevelt's support came from outside the party bosses who had too little power in the nomination process. B. Taft's support came largely from urban areas which were underrepresented in the party's electoral system. C. Roosevelt was denied the nomination even though he had the support of most party voters. D. Taft won the nomination despite the presence of a significant recall movement against him.
Why did Aristotle feel that humans should not put much faith in natural philosophy?
A) Most of creation could not be studied and therefore lay beyond human understanding. B) It was sufficient to understand that gods and angels made the universe work. C) Investigating the physical laws that governed the sun and planets was blasphemous. D) Faith needed to be based on divine revelations in holy books, not study of physical nature. E) Aristotle lived long before any serious observations were made of the world of nature.