The church attacked Galileo because
a. he offered a view of the universe that conflicted with certain scriptural texts.
b. he was a Copernican
c. he abandoned the scholastics' view of the relationship between matter and form.
d. he advanced a corpuscular theory of matter.
e. all of the above
e
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A) Sa'd Zaghlul B) Hussein C) Gamal Abdel Nasser D) Mustafa Kemal
Babur captured Delhi with only how many troops?
A. 1,000 B. 12,000 C. 50,000 D. 84,000 E. 120,000
Few Spanish settlers could be persuaded to settle the colony of ________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser gained great international prestige when he
A) negotiated a peace settlement with Israel. B) succeeded in retaking the Suez Canal from the British. C) aligned Egypt with the United States. D) aligned Egypt with the Soviet Union. E) reclaimed the Sinai peninsula from Israel.