________ established the theory of the lever in mechanics and invented hydrostatics

Fill in the blank with correct word.


Answer: Archimedes

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The basic cause of the economic depression in 1873 was:

A) the collapse of the stock market. B) rising farm prices. C) commercial overexpansion and speculation. D) global inflation.

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The organization that formed to resist the military aggression of Louis XIV was the ________

A. Treaty of Nijmwegen B. Peace of Ryswick C. League of Augsburg D. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle E. Treaty of Dover

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Which of the following describes the earliest Sumerian writings?

A) They were ideograms in which each sign symbolized an idea. B) They were pictographs in which each sign pictured an object. C) Each symbol represented a sound in the spoken language. D) They were written using the first known alphabet.

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One of the first actions Ferdinand took as king of Bohemia was to:

A. declare the Lutheran religion as the only legal religion in Bohemia. B. warn the Jesuits to leave or be exiled or sentenced to death. C. ban the practice of Catholicism in Protestant Bohemia. D. revoke the religious freedoms of the Bohemian Protestants. E. renounce his own Catholicism.

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