In discussing the causes of the Mexican War, which does Irwin Unger not accept as a contributing cause?
a. American territorial expansion was combined with greed, or acquisitiveness
b. America's pre-Civil War expansionist spirit met with Mexico's large, loosely-governed territory
c. Mexico was neither strong nor stable
d. America's moral superiority over impoverished neighboring countries meant a war was inevitable.
D
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a. Chinese b. Korean c. Vietnamese d. Indian e. European
University students who studied medicine in the Middle Ages studied the works of which two great medical men of the ancient world?
a. Ptolemy and Aristotle b. Plato and Socrates c. Hippocrates and Galen d. Thales and Anaximander e. Anaximenes and Pythagoras
Which of the following is an example of European powers' reticence to allow independence to Africans and Asians?
a. French colonialists treatment of people as indigenes. b. Dutch resistance of Dutch-educated natives becoming social equals to their colonizers. c. British resistance to assimilation of British-educated Nigerians and Burmese. d. British hesitancy to allow India self-rule. e. All of the answers are correct.
Militarism is best defined as
A) the belief that preparation for war provides sound moral training and the best safeguard of peace and the national interest. B) the state in which border and trade route protection is the number one priority against invasion. C) a state that is governed and occupied by military forces, with no civilian interference. D) glorification of the ideals of a professional military class. E) the building up of an army for war.