The raw materials that their colonies in Africa and Asia provided were important to European industrialization.
a. true
b. false
Answer: a. true
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One hundred years after Columbus, the nation whose interest in the new world enraged King Philip II was
A) England. B) France. C) Sweden. D) Portugal.
The colonial wars in North America between 1688 and 1763 were all extensions of
a. the friction between the King and Parliament. b. the balance of power struggle of European states over territory, resources, and people. c. a desire to destroy the Iroquois League as a native nation. d. local concerns not involving the rest of the world.
What action took place after proslavery adherents raided Lawrence, the free-state capital of Kansas, in 1856?
A) John Brown and his followers killed five Native Americans in a land dispute. B) A mob of angry settlers attacked and killed five escaped slaves. C) An escaped slave killed a family of five white settlers. D) John Brown killed eight abolitionists in Kansas. E) John Brown and his followers killed five proslavery settlers in cold blood.
The most lasting testimony to the wealth and sophistication of Benin is its surviving __________
A) impressive and richly adorned mosques B) gold and silver jewelry C) elaborate illustrated manuscripts D) iron, bronze, brass, and ivory sculptures and plaques