During the mid-1800s, Court Camillo di Cavour expanded Piedmont-Sardinia's power and also:
a) Conquered part of France
b) Unified Italy
c) Took control of Venetia
d) Did all of the above
Ans: b) Unified Italy
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Which of these long-established patterns is visible in Map 29.4, "The Partition of Africa"?
A) Britain controlled most of southern Africa. B) Kenya was tied to the Nile Valley. C) The Sudanic states were able to resist European encroachment. D) Ethiopia usually followed a different path from the rest of the continent.
The Panics of 1819 and 1837 were both triggered by:
A) a wave of bank failures. B) state bankruptcies. C) a stock market crash. D) government refusal to redeem bonds.
What did the "gospel of wealth" and the "gospel of work" have in common?
A. Both saw power as the driving force of progress. B. Both saw riches as proof of civic virtue. C. Both affirmed the dignity of production. D. Both were based on the realities of the preindustrial world.
Copernicus's model of the universe as expounded in On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
a. discarded the idea of crystalline spheres in which heavenly objects were embedded. b. included elliptical orbits for the planets. c. discarded all of the Ptolemaic epicycles. d. included the perfectly circular orbits of the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system. e. discarded Aristotle's theory of motion.