The conquest of America affected Europe in all of the following ways except
A) it stimulated Europe's economic modernization.
B) it discredited the intellectual authority of the ancients and promoted modern empiricism.
C) it inspired ideas about the evils of private property and the benefits of popular government.
D) it discredited Europeans' racist and ethnocentric attitudes.
D
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The PLO uprising against Israel in the 1980s and again in the late 1990s is referred to as the
a. intifada. b. hajj. c. jihad. d. hegira. e. sakat.
During the 1950s, television networks
A. refused to show how the lower classes lived in America. B. both refused to show how the lower classes lived in America and generally conveyed an idealized image of America. C. created conditions that helped to ameliorate social conflict. D. None of these answers is correct. E. generally sought to convey an idealized image of a homogeneous America.
The official objective of the First Crusade was __________.
A. to rescue the holy city of Jerusalem B. to stimulate Western trade with the East C. to support the Byzantine Empire against Muslim forces D. to spread Christianity to the farthest reaches of the Earth
Each of the following is true of Albert Bierstadt's painting Emigrants Crossing the Plains EXCEPT that
A) buffalo bones and a distant Indian village symbolize the past. B) it shows a romanticized scene that omits the hard realities of moving West. C) tree stumps suggest the negative impact of westward settlement on the environment. D) the pioneers seem to be well-provisioned for the trip. E) the bright western sun suggests a promising future.