The Roman official under whose authority Christ was crucified was
A) Augustus Caesar.
B) Pontius Pilate.
C) Herod the Great.
D) Narc Anthony.
E) Mark Antony.
B
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Which of the following reflects the persistence of patriarchal attitudes toward women during the Scientific Revolution?
A) image of women "as a priest of God" B) notion of the family as "the book of nature" C) view of science as a "masculine philosophy" D) notion that the "mind has no sex"
Originally, the Georgia colony excluded
A. free Africans. B. neither free Africans nor slaves. C. slaves. D. indentured servants. E. both free Africans and slaves.
What was the intellectual, social, and philosophical basis for how the Europeans justified their actions toward the so-called native peoples in Asia and elsewhere?
A) They used Karl Marx's concepts of exploiting the successful capitalists to enrich the less productive members of society. B) They used the pseudo-scientific application of Darwin's "survival of the fittest" concept regarding other races. C) They used John Locke's concepts of liberty and free-will for determining the method of local rule. D) They used Jean-Jacques Rousseau's belief that society corrupted the young as an excuse to be paternalistic. E) They used Thomas Jefferson's views on how to rule a large nation as a republic with democratic institutions.
Why did some Americans become Loyalists during the Revolution?
a. They resented their dependence on colonial governments for their livelihood. b. They disliked the influx of ethnic or religious minorities to the colonies. c. They feared enslavement by Patriot leaders. d. They were elites who believed that independence would bring social anarchy. e. They were British slaves who wanted to immigrate back to England.