A brief invasion of Mexico in late 1842 by Texas troops, who disobeyed their commanders and were captured by Mexican forces, was known as the __________
A. Taos Expedition
B. Mier Expedition
C. Brownsville Affair
D. Snively Incident
B
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The demand for increased slave labor in the sixteenth century was due to the dramatic expansion of
a. the Portuguese spice trade. b. colonization of the Americas spurring growth of the sugar industry. c. with the Ottoman empire's blocade of the Silk Road, dependence on cotton was shifted to the Americas. d. the elimination of the Portuguese from east Africa. e. the declaration of the Treaty of Tordesillas giving the Portuguese dominion over Africa.
The first British colony in West Africa was
a. the Congo. b. Nigeria. c. the Transvaal. d. Liberia. e. the Gold Coast.
Secularism in the Italian Renaissance meant a/an
a. denial of the validity of religion. b. preoccupation with the pleasures and challenges of the life in this world. c. willingness to accept different forms of Christianity. d. active campaign against established religion. e. return to Epicureanism.
In which of these ways did the Romans exhibit their pragmatism and flexibility?
A) They allowed their soldiers to adopt different religions. B) They incorporated conquered peoples into their military to assure they had strong numbers. C) They took a large number of defeated peoples back to Rome to serve as manual laborers. D) They permitted full citizenship to certain conquered peoples, thereby allowing those people to feel a deep affinity for their new leaders. E) They encouraged their soldiers to marry young women from the conquered groups.