One effect of the Dutch controlling the South Asian coffee trade was that
a. Portugal was forced to abandon its Asian holdings
b. "Java" became shorthand for coffee
c. The Ottomans tried to ban coffeehouses
d. The English switched to tea
e. All of these choices
b
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A) Benevolent acceptance of the Filipinos. B) Disdain for the Filipinos. C) Expedient liberation of the islands. D) Lengthy occupation of the islands. E) Abject denial of the problems there.
Margaret Sanger, in a program in 1912 to disseminate information on preventing pregnancies, coined the term “birth control.”
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Thales is regarded as the first Greek philosopher because he
a. demonstrated the existence of gods scientifically. b. compared Egyptian and Mesopotamian religious beliefs with those of Greece. c. explained the origins of the world in naturalistic terms. d. argued for the importance of ethical behavior.
Why were the crop failures of the early fourteenth century particularly devastating to Europeans?
A) The population of Europe had tripled between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. B) Europe had invested heavily in the campaigns of the crusades. C) The population of Europe had doubled between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. D) Over the centuries, inheritance laws had divided land into parcels too small to support the average family. E) Land was unproductive because people of the Middle Ages had no concept of crop rotation.