Why is Herodotus considered "the father of history?"
A) He wrote the earliest work on the history of the Greeks.
B) He wrote a survey of the entire region of the eastern Mediterranean concerning society, politics, religion, and culture.
C) Herodotus' Historia was an investigation to separate fact from legend, and he based his account upon observation and evidence of those events he recorded.
D) He provides the most definitive account of the war between the Greeks and the Persians.
E) He provides the first complete history of the Egyptian deities and the worship of those deities, including mummification.
C
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The Cuban missile crisis appears to have been most directly the outgrowth of ____________________.
A. Castro's belief that the missile installations would bring jobs and spending to help the depressed Cuban economy B. President Kennedy's anti-Castro projects, which led both Khrushchev and Castro to believe that the United States was planning an invasion C. Castro's desire to win status and respect throughout Latin America D. Khrushchev's determination to make Soviet inroads into Latin America
The young Jesuit missionary Manuel Dias told his Chinese readers in 1610 about "a famous Western sage" who had constructed an instrument that made the moon seem "a thousand times larger." Who was that Western sage?
a. Isaac Newton b. Francis Bacon c. Galileo Galilei d. Johannes Kepler
For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. trench warfare
What will be an ideal response?
The bloody trench warfare of World War I was a result of
A) unimaginative military leaders who disregarded heavy casualties. B) the lack of effective weapons on either side. C) both sides' refusal to come out into the open and fight. D) soldiers' thirst for heroic glory for their nation. E) the superiority of offensive over defensive tactics.