Which type of Buddhism taught that meditation was the only path to enlightenment?
A) Mahayana
B) Pure Land
C) Chan (Zen)
D) Theravada
Answer: C
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Which of the following was not a typical condition in eighteenth-century American cities?
A) Declining population because of out-migration to regions beyond the mountains where land was available B) Poor rolls that were bulging with the survivors of mariners lost at sea C) Contagious disease running rampant because of poor sanitation D) Longer spells of unemployment and declining wages E) Inhabitants who were caught in a downward spiral of declining opportunity
Tried and found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens, Socrates was forced to ____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Population in Europe during the nineteenth century
A. remained steady until the 1830s, and then began to decrease steadily. B. was notable for rapid overall growth and a far more rapid increase in city populations. C. was dramatically reduced when the Great Famine killed thirty-five percent of the Russian, Irish, and Prussian populations. D. decreased as peasants, reassured by falling death rates, reduced the rural birth rate by over sixty percent due to their adoption of birth control. E. was numerically dominated by the landed aristocracy.
The black section of __________ Five Points was one of the worst urban slums in early nineteenth-century America
A) Boston’s B) Detroit’s C) New York City’s D) Richmond’s