Which statement best describes Imperial Rome's gladiatorial shows?
a. They were increasingly associated with religious practices.
b. They were government-backed spectacles used to content the masses.
c. They were limited to fights between slaves and criminals trained at gladiatorial schools.
d. They paled in popularity to the Circus Maximus.
e. They were outlawed by Augustus as being in violation of his policy of moral reform.
b
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a. increased. b. decreased. c. fluctuated. d. remained the same. e. was eliminated entirely.
American export and reexport trade between 1790 and 1815 would be best described as __________
A) stagnant B) steadily declining C) steadily increasing D) increasing and decreasing erratically
All of the following were symptoms of collapse within the absolute regimes of Europe EXCEPT
A) disloyalty of the nobles. B) lack of an ambitious middle class. C) peasant rebellions. D) rioting among urban workers. E) aristocratic opposition to the loss of their power.
What were the reasons, strategic and otherwise, for a lack of action by the Allies toward the Holocaust in Europe during World War II? Were these reasons justified by the need to win the war? What do you think the Allies could have done?
What will be an ideal response?