For the Romans, Italy's geography
A) provided little productive land for agriculture.
B) divided the peninsula into small isolated communities.
C) made Rome a natural crossroads and an area easy to defend.
D) made the conquering of the Mediterranean a difficult task.
E) created the same difficult environment as in Greece, thus making political unity difficult.
C
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Ottoman troops were able to repress nationalist agitators in Macedonia in the 1890s because:
a. Bulgarian and Greek revolutionaries disagreed over where the post-Ottoman borders should be drawn. b. Germany forcefully intervened on the side of the Ottomans and called a halt to the movement. c. None of the groups received outside support in their effort. d. The Janissaries, many of whom were Macedonian, persuaded their compatriots to put down their weapons.
According to the authors, Chongqing came to be associated with
a. Chinese resistance in the war years. b. the weakness of all treaty ports. c. the failed GMD. d. Chinese disunity.
In general, Native American groups prior to contact with Europeans
a. had developed dry farming techniques. b. had adapted to a variety of geographic and climate conditions. c. had developed large-scale cities with hierarchical governments. d. lived in scattered groups. e. had extensive trade networks that linked North and South America.
Reconstruction ended in 1877 because
a. African American government leaders in the South were incompetent. b. the North lost interest in the cause. c. the Democratic Party lost its political base in the South. d. the northern government had achieved all it had planned.