In 1492, how many people lived on the continents of North and South America?
a. 5 million
b. 20 million
c. 40 million
d. 70 million
e. 95 million
70 million
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Melisende of Jerusalem and Eleanor of Aquitaine could both be considered __________
A) typical medieval women B) exceptions to the usual roles of medieval women C) legitimate rulers in their own right D) examples of medieval female piety
Portuguese control of the spice trade was ended by
a. Muslim attacks from Delhi. b. the circumnavigating voyage of Balboa. c. the establishment of the British and Dutch East India Companies. d. rival Hindu merchants from the Ganges plain. e. a new outbreak of the Black Death.
Senate opponents of the League of Nations, as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles, argued that it
a. failed to provide enough German financial reparations to the United States. b. violated Wilson's own Fourteen Points. c. robbed Congress of its constitutional war-declaring powers by entangling America in an international organization capable of authorizing collective force against an aggressor nation. d. isolated the United States from postwar world affairs. e. made collective international security and alliances of peaceful democratic states more difficult to construct and sustain.
What Muslim leader dominated the third Crusade?
a. Moses Maimonides b. Genghis Khan c. Saladin d. Hulegu e. Tamerlane