What was the driving motivation of the early Spanish explorations in the Caribbean?
A) the European need for markets
B) the Spanish search for resources
C) the explorers search for treasure
D) the desire for farm land
E) the desire to expand their world empire
C
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In the novel 1984, author George Orwell compared totalitarianism to
A) a boot stamping on a human face. B) chains shackling humanity. C) a soul deprived of nourishment. D) a vise that slowly squeezes the humanity out of civilization. E) a puppet master that controls every human's behavior.
Reconquista means
A) a series of formal campaigns to free Jerusalem from Muslim control. B) Catholic campaigns to unify a Christian Spain. C) the retreat of Islam from the Balkan peninsula. D) European dominance of the trade routes to the East. E) the diversity of the Islamic world.
After the conquests of Alexander the Great, the government of the Persian Empire
a. was maintained more or less intact. b. was changed to a democracy. c. was changed to a traditional Macedonian monarchy. d. was transformed into a mix of democracy and monarchy.
The Manhattan Project was centered in Los Alamos, New Mexico and:
A) Hanford, Washington. B) Albuquerque, New Mexico. C) Alamogordo, New Mexico. D) Orange County, California.