In his work The City of God, ____________ defends Christianity against the accusation by many Romans that its adoption as the state religion in the fourth century CE had contributed to the decline of the empire.
a. Origen.
b. Augustine.
c. Paul.
d. Jerome.
b. Augustine.
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The main cause of early fourteenth-century famines was
a. a blight that struck the wheat crop b. a lack of knowledge of scientific agriculture c. the droughts throughout most of Europe d. a little ice age that induced bad weather with heavy rains e. the urban pollution that spread into nearby farming regions
In answer to the question of why evil exists in the world, the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz argued that
a. evil is a product of ignorance. b. evil is an illusion. c. good and evil are inseparable. d. good and evil are a matter of opinion.
Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in
a. little increase in church membership. b. a stronger religious influence in many areas of American life including abolitionism and benevolent and charitable organizations. c. surprisingly few humanitarian reforms. d. greater attention to church history and doctrine. e. increase in enlightenment and rational religion.
The riots that engulfed northern cities and the increasing militancy of the movement demonstrated that __________
A) civil rights had become a national issue B) the federal government lacked the military power to bring order to American race relations C) the legal triumphs of the 1950s had caused as many problems as they fixed D) American racial problems required political solutions through formal legislation