Which statement best summarizes Edmund Burke's position on the French Revolution?
A) The revolutionaries should be opposed because radical change threatens social order.
B) The revolutionaries were right to curtail the power of the Catholic Church.
C) The revolutionaries should be opposed because of their support of the American colonists.
D) The revolutionaries should be opposed because of their attitude toward the Irish.
E) The revolutionaries were right to overturn the power of the king and nobles.
Answer: A
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A. Jewish and Christian uprisings removing Muslims from Europe. B. the death or conversion of most Jews and Christians. C. Muslim control of territories in the southern and eastern Mediterranean to this day. D. the end of positive contact and influence between Muslims and Christians. E. short-lived Muslim control in the southern and eastern Mediterranean.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
a. established a European free-trade zone. b. continued the traditional U.S. policy of nonentanglement. c. delivered economic aid to the Soviet Union. d. called for preemptive wars against likely aggressors. e. considered an attack on one member nation an attack on all members.
The End of History and the Last Man claims, that while not perfect, the systems most effective in satisfying most human aspirations are
a. enlightened despotism and mercantilism. b. communism and state socialism. c. capitalism and liberal democracy. d. communal capitalism and authoritarian democracy. e. republican oligarchy and the corporate state.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)