What military asset did Sonni Ali exploit in his fifteenth-century conquest of the Niger region of West Africa?
a. a riverine navy
b. an improved crossbow
c. a trained cavalry that fought on horseback
d. gunpowder muskets and cannons
a. a riverine navy
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A. castles B. cathedrals C. towns D. bridges
Gustave Courbet's genius was expressed as
a. court painter of the French Empire. b. landscape artist for rural nobility. c. an artist of everyday life. d. an innovator in pigmentation and color. e. a practitioner of the "living art" of high society and the intellectual elite.
Why did Atatürk's transformations of Turkey focus on modernization and renewal, rather than traditional history?
What will be an ideal response?
When the House of Burgesses was created in Virginia in 1619,
A. it gave settlers full political control of their colony. B. it put an end to a violent uprising by disgruntled colonists. C. landowning women colonists were allowed to vote. D. colonists were given a share of local political representation. E. it recommended that Virginia declare independence from England.