From the 700s to the 1500s, the Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade networks were dominated by the ________
A) Arabs
B) Indians
C) Chinese
D) Persians
A
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In the Grand Settlement of 1701, the Iroquois pledged neutrality with respect to England and __________.
A) Holland B) France C) Spain D) Portugal
Why did white rule last almost 50 years longer in South Africa than it did in India (1994 versus 1947)?
a. Blacks in South Africa were much better treated than Indians in British India. b. Blacks chose the path of violence, which was futile, as opposed to nonviolence, which the Indians used to great effect. c. A sizable and powerful community of permanent white settlers in South Africa, but not in India, controlled the country. d. Gandhi never spent time in South Africa.
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the manumission of slaves in the Mid-Atlantic colonies had been
a. prohibited entirely by colonial assemblies. b. enacted completely by legislative decree. c. dramatically increased by monetary rewards offered to masters who freed their slaves. d. dramatically decreased by legal requirements that masters post heavy bonds before freeing their slaves.
The 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford decision prompted
(A) South Carolina to threaten secession (B) John Brown to kill five proslavery whites in the Pottawatomie Massacre (C) Border ruffians to burn Lawrence, Kansas (D) Stephen Douglas to announce the Freeport Doctrine