What was a situation common in both the Roman and Chinese worlds during the third century C.E.?
a. peace
b. civil war
c. economic growth
d. new military innovations
b
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The mass killing of six million Jews by the Nazi regime was particularly horrific because
a. of the industrialization of the killing process. b. the numbers killed were greater than in any other twentieth-century atrocity. c. of the use of victims as human guinea pigs in scientific experimentation. d. of the use of victims as slave laborers.
During the "Great Peace" of the Tokugawa shogunate, all occurred except
A. by transforming the fief into a form of wages, the daimyo were able to ameliorate the economic pressures they experienced. B. daimyo duties for the shogun created economic pressures on the nobles. C. Japan opened its borders to the West in the seventeenth century. D. many of the samurai were changed from warriors into salaried officials. E. culturally a "floating world" came into being.
What was the most important technological advance in production in the second half of the nineteenth century? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
One effect of German U-boat attacks on British passenger ships was
A) the American belief that the Allies could not win the war. B) the desire of many Americans that Britain should surrender. C) a modest, yet controversial, expansion of the American armed forces. D) the withdrawal of Russia from the war. E) the alliance of Britain with France.