The Portuguese influence on the east coast of Africa brought
a. economic prosperity.
b. economic decline.
c. political unity.
d. religious unity.
b
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The Cold War Era witnessed all of the following EXCEPT
A) recurring European hostilities. B) low living standards in the Eastern Bloc. C) a series of proxy wars. D) a productive Western economy. E) Soviet expansive policies.
Isaac Newton was an inspiration for the Enlightenment in his contention that the world and everything in it worked like a giant machine.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
To a degree, the Navigation Laws were beneficial to colonists because
a. colonists were paid subsidies for producing ships' parts and stores. b. tobacco growers were guaranteed a monopoly of the British market for their crop. c. colonial trading ships were protected by the Royal Navy. d. colonists did not have to deal with British intermediaries when marketing their goods. e. they helped create a surplus of money.
Many proponents of mechanism believed:
A. machines should do the work of humans. B. human beings were machines, slaves, to religion. C. humans are machines whose purpose is to produce knowledge. D. the world can be explained in mechanical metaphors. E. mechanism and Christianity could not be reconciled.