The mystery religions that flooded Rome from the Near East included which of the following elements?
a. initiation rites and, often, secrecy oaths
b. attempts to unite with a deity
c. communion by, among other means, eating a sacred meal
d. the promise of immortality
e. all of the above
e
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How did the technologies of Eli Whitney and James Hargreaves create a “bottleneck” in British manufacturing?
a) Whitney’s and Hargreaves’s inventions vastly increased the production of cotton thread beyond the capacity of traditional weaving methods to use it all. b) Whitney and Hargreaves created, at least early in the Industrial Revolution, an insurmountable set of manufacturing costs for their products. Consider This: Until Whitney developed the cotton gin, the bottleneck was between raw cotton and Hargreaves’s technology. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions. c) Whitney’s and Hargreaves’s inventions undercut British labor since their technologies relied on American slaves. Consider This: Until Whitney developed the cotton gin, the bottleneck was between raw cotton and Hargreaves’s technology. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions. d) Whitney and Hargreaves insisted that anyone using their products pay an exorbitant fee to them, which many manufacturers could not afford. Consider This: Until Whitney developed the cotton gin, the bottleneck was between raw cotton and Hargreaves’s technology. See 7.2: New Problems, New Solutions.
How was the egalitarianism of early Islam transformed by the Abbasid caliphs?
a. They lived in the splendor of a Sasanian court. b. Greek became the language of the court. c. They were increasingly accessible to the public. d. Caliphs strove to appear as common Muslims in dress and surroundings. e. Living in Sasanian courts, they were addressed as "the shadow of God on earth."
The communist response to the United States' promotion of wealth for its allies included:
A) fueling a civil war in the United States. B) bombing the major economic capitals of the United States. C) constructing the Berlin Wall. D) cutting off trade with the Allied Nations. E) supplying nuclear weapons to Cuba.
Which of the following statements best describes African Americans' actions during the American Revolution?
A) They fought with the American colonists because they were fighting for the ideals of democracy. B) They played no role in the revolution because they were forbidden from enlisting in the army. C) They fought for the side that offered them their best chance at freedom. D) They consistently chose to escape to the west, where they were adopted into Indian tribes.