Which of these did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s?
A) agriculture
B) department stores
C) the automotive industry
D) the chemical industry
E) the entertainment industry
Ans: A) agriculture
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A) encouraging poor whites to work for someone else to earn a stake to buy some land. B) allowing them too much leisure time. C) causing basically decent people to commit countless petty cruelties. D) encouraging southern slave owners to develop strong emotional bonds with people that they treated as mere possessions.
Constantine claimed he was victorious in battle because
a. a vision of Caesar Augustus appeared to him. b. he had a vision from the sun-god Apollo who told him he would rule for 30 years. c. a Christian cross had appeared to him. d. his capital in Byzantium had been blessed by Jesus. e. he made a promise to his Christian wife to convert if he won.
The Kushan peoples
a. were, originally, inhabitants of Mesopotamia. b. had been herder-nomads until they moved into the Irrawaddy Valley. c. were of Indo-European background, driven out of Central Asia by the Xiongnu. d. settled in Sri Lanka. e. defeated the Aryan invaders of India.
What reformist friar ruled Florence?
A. Cosimo de' Medici B. Lorenzo de' Medici C. Niccolo? Machiavelli D. Girolamo Savonarola E. Francesco Sforza