What was the political climate in Merovingian Gaul?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but students should be able to demonstrate knowledge that the Franks did not succeed in establishing a Roman-type rule. Instead, Frankish kings and their military alliances sought to conquer and rule in a world absent of centralized power. Therefore, control over territory was concentrated in the hands of powerful warlords, who passed their lands onto their kin: at least in theory. Violence within families was common, as brother executed brother in order to increase his own wealth; the rule of primogeniture had not yet taken hold. Warfare was constant throughout the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries as a result.
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Explain how the economic interests of businesspeople and farmers motivated and shaped America's expansionist foreign policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following BEST illustrates the reign of Akbar?
A) He had no concern for morality and social justice. B) He was a patron of the arts. C) He maintained the non-Muslim head tax, or jizya. D) He required that his heir be Muslim. E) all of the above.
How many states did not have to draft new constitutions, since they already had republican governments as part of their colonial charters?
a. none b. one c. two d. three e. four
A serious criticism of the Digital Age is
A) that it makes cultures more independent. B) that it has increased bodily reality. C) it is not technically advanced. D) it has displaced cultural uniqueness and bodily presence. E) it is not affordable, costing too much money.