What four major trends led Spain and Portugal to sponsor voyages of exploration?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
The revival of urban life and trade, the alliance of merchants and rulers in Europe, the struggle with Islamic powers for control of the Mediterranean, and a growing intellectual curiosity about the outside world.
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What will be an ideal response?
The Achaemenid empire began to decline under Xerxes. Was his approach any different than that of his predecessors, such as Cyrus or Darius?
What will be an ideal response?
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In Two Treatises of Government, John Locke argued that sovereignty rested with the __________
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