Who wrote the best example of Hellenistic "New Comedy"?
a. Aristophanes
b. Menander
c. Euripides
d. Aeschylus
e. Polybius
b
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Harboring presidential ambitions, Stephen Douglas hoped to win the support of southern Democrats by recommending that the Kansas and Nebraska territories
A) contain the route of a transcontinental railroad. B) protect the rights of slaveholders. C) abide by the restrictions of the Missouri Compromise. D) organize on the basis of popular sovereignty.
In Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans, he
A. suggested that Jesus' ideas were a precursor to communism. B. shocked the Christian world by stressing the importance of material progress above everything else. C. attacked the liberal Christian theology that had embraced the idea of progress. D. laid the groundwork for the rise of fascism in Italy. E. gave a religious foundation for the ideas of the social Darwinists.
As Rome continued to expand in population, most aristocrats lived in townhouses, while the urban populations lived in
A) insulae (apartments). B) single dwellings. C) basilicas. D) brothels. E) workhouses.
Black congressmen who refused to compromise on measures such as amnesty often cited __________
a) the scope of racial violence in the South b) the weakness of the white political class c) the unerring support of the Republican Party against southern whites d) a lack of interest in promoting southern agriculture