About 725 B.C.E., the pressure of population and hunger led ________, located on the Peloponnesus, to launch a war of conquest against its western neighbor:
A. Messenia
B. Sparta
C. Athens
D. Troy
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
"The 100 Days" refers to __________
A) the active first three months of FDR's first term of office B) the "lame duck" final few months of Hoover's presidency C) the immediate after-effects of the stock market crash D) the length of the sit-down strike at the General Motors plant
In Qianlong's letter, he forbade all future European trade with China, and said that they would no longer sell tea to the British.
a. true b. false
All of the following inclined the U.S. toward entering on the side of the Allies in the First World War EXCEPT that
A. the U.S. had cultural, economic, and historical ties to the Allies. B. the Germans employed submarine warfare against American merchant vessels. C. although some progressives opposed war, the idealistic progressive spirit pointed toward an American campaign to end militarism and establish a peaceful world order. D. although a pacifist at heart, Wilson campaigned for re-election in 1916 on a hawkish platform-and won decisively.
In the Greek pantheon, the father of the gods was
a. Zeus. b. Olympus. c. Apollo. d. Delphi.