Thucydides believed that
a. the past held no lessons for understanding the present.
b. there was an exact pattern of repetition in all human affairs.
c. human nature showed no signs of order.
d. historical writing should be objective, accurate, and factual.
e. truth was virtue.
d
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What do historians mean by the Price Revolution of the mid-1500s to mid-1600s?
a) widespread inflation caused by Spanish spending of silver throughout Europe, bringing to an end centuries of relatively stable prices b) the ability of all new colonies to increase productivity in the home nation, causing a dramatic fall in prices Consider This: By the mid-1600s, Spain was poorer than it had been 150 years earlier. See 4.1: The New World Economy. c) the control absolute governments like that of France exercised over market prices, where formerly there had been a free market Consider This: By the mid-1600s, Spain was poorer than it had been 150 years earlier. See 4.1: The New World Economy. d) English insistence that all European currencies be linked to the British pound, causing an upheaval in continental money markets Consider This: By the mid-1600s, Spain was poorer than it had been 150 years earlier. See 4.1: The New World Economy.
Because the soil lacked sufficient nutrients, agriculture never developed in the Amazon region
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Boston Massacre was the British response to the Boston Tea Party.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Peoples in Central and South America
a. regularly were in contact with one another for trade, but seldom exchanged technological developments. b. were often at war with one another for resources. c. were geographically isolated from each other. d. passed important technological advances like writing to one another.