__________ was an astronomer and mathematician.

a. Benjamin Banneker
b. Richard Allen
c. John Woolman
d. Phillis Wheatley


a. Benjamin Banneker

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a. French b. Irish c. Polish d. Russian

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When the United States declared war during World War I, the Allies were perilously close to defeat

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Beginning in the 1990s and on the basis of the study of terra preta, scholars proposed that indigenous peoples in the Amazonian rainforests:

a. Had employed slash and burn techniques, reducing trees to nutrient-poor ash. b. Had experienced a devastating drought that caused them to relocate en masse. c. Had employed slash and char techniques, reducing trees to nutrient-rich charcoal. d. Had experienced a devastating flood that caused them to relocate en masse.

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"On the left" in the Soviet Union referred to

a. overtime pay received by unionized communist workers. b. extra labor required of inhabitants of the gulag. c. the ideology of hard-line communists who were opposed Gorbachev's reforms. d. buying scarce goods in the black market. e. Soviet secret police's extra assignment as reserve infantry soldiers.

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