The _________, a primary target of English privateers, carried silver from Mexico to China annually and returned laden with Chinese silks, porcelain and lacquerware.
a. Santa Fe Trail
b. Old Spanish Trail
c. Acapulco-Manila treasure fleet
d. Spanish Main
c. Acapulco-Manila treasure fleet
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A) equal to men in all things except war. B) subservient to men and subject to male authority. C) an equal partner of men in theory, but not in practice. D) to be made in God's image. E) superior to men, because the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus as God.
Which of the following founded an influential mendicant order that stressed radical poverty, preaching, and service?
A) Waldo B) Saint Francis of Assisi C) Saint Clare of Assisi D) Saint Dominic E) Claire of Assisi
Like the Byzantine Empire, the Sasanians were weakened by which of these in the 300s?
A) religious controversy B) waves of plague C) conflict on two frontiers D) Arab attacks
Kenzaburo Oe
a. is Japan's greatest living poet. b. painted the famous "portrait of General MacArthur" in eight minutes on a sidewalk. c. received a Nobel Prize for literature. d. believes rising materialism in present-day Japan represents "progress." e. is the originator of the "industrial novel."