The term "Black Death" refers to
A) the malaria infection brought to the New World by African slaves.
B) the bubonic plague that swept away nearly one-third of Europe's population in the fourteenth century.
C) the ruthless destruction of New World populations by Spanish conquistadores.
D) syphilis epidemics that killed thousands of Europeans who migrated to the New World in the sixteenth century.
B
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A) China B) Spain C) Brazil D) Russia
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a. Henry VII b. Henry VIII c. Elizabeth I d. Mary Tudor e. James I
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A. Bill of Rights. B. Jefferson Doctrine. C. Constitution. D. Articles of Confederation.
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A) they capture the city at a moment of time B) Pompeii was the Roman capital C) reveal information about the lower classes that is otherwise hard to discover D) the ruins tell us a great deal about early Rome