Compare the Phoenicians and Greeks with the Assyrians and Babylonians. What did scattered colonizing peoples gain compared to imperial states? What did they give up in exchange?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: All of these cultures extended their resource bases by colonizing territories that created strong trading relationships and a cultural exchange. This exchange provided inspiration for cultural growth as well as economic development. They gave up control of these colonies since many of them maintained their cultural independence.
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Which of the following statements describes the Oyo?
A) They remained a group of small villages. B) They were Swahili migrants to the forests. C) The Oyo were the only Christian kingdom in Africa. D) They did not practice agriculture. E) They were the largest and most powerful Yoruba city-state.
The _____ __ _____(1838), a forced march with US Army escorts leading thousands of Cherokee Indians to the West was the result of President Jackson's refusal to enforce a Supreme Court decision to recognize the Cherokee Nation's sovereign state in northern Georgia.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What was new in American resistance to the Townshend duties?
A. an intercolonial congress B. nonimportation of British goods C. a formal statement of American constitutional arguments D. institutionalized mechanisms for enforcing nonimportation
Which of the following brought an end to Bacon's Rebellion?
A) the trial of Nathaniel Bacon B) the execution of Sir William Berkeley C) massive Indian raids on several large plantations D) the arrival of an English naval squadron