Which of the following explorers first rounded the southern tip of the African continent?

A) Bartolomeu Dias
B) Christopher Columbus
C) Vasco de Gama
D) Hernán Cortés
E) Juan Ponce de Leon


Answer: A

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A. states B. District of Columbia C. army D. territories

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Which of the following descriptors does NOT necessarily apply to the term “privilege?”

A. automatic B. conscious C. unearned D. associated with membership in a dominant group

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How would late-seventeenth-century Virginia best be described?

A) a plantation society, dominated by a slaveholding aristocracy B) a diversified society and economy, with minimal social stratification C) a society of small farmers, committed to multicrop agriculture D) a successful commercial enterprise that returned large profits to the crown E) a society struggling with the question of slavery

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Which of these was grown in Mexico from about 4000 B.C.E.?

A) squash B) wheat C) barley D) oats

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