In general, Muslims in the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties
a. had no knowledge of Greek and Roman philosophy.
b. preserved and expanded Greco-Roman philosophy and science.
c. rejected philosophy as incompatible with Islam.
d. borrowed many philosophical ideas from India but not Greece.
b
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What will be an ideal response?
The Californios were descendants of __________.
a) the original Spanish colonizers b) immigrant Chinese laborers c) African American fugitive slaves d) assimilated Native Americans
Trace the life of a West African slave through the major turning points of the Atlantic slave trade, starting with capture in Africa. What stages would a typical enslaved African experience as he or she awaited shipment to the colonies of the Americas?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
What does it mean to say that Americans spoke a "common language of consumption" by the late nineteenth century?
a. People found that the only way they could become truly American was to buy goods made in America. b. Americans found a commonality in a consumer culture, in which they all could buy the same kinds of goods. c. Americans no longer wanted to produce goods for other countries or themselves and wanted only to buy imports. d. Because of the new types of work in the United States, most Americans were becoming very wealthy and could afford consumer goods. e. Only native-born Americans bought the new consumer goods, which broadened the gap between immigrants and nonimmigrants in the United States.