The conversion of the Sahara region from a relatively humid lake-region, suitable for agriculture, to an arid desert was caused by
a. The Romans
b. Global Climate Change
c. the advent of human agriculture
d. massive extinctions of native plants
e. none of the choices listed
Ans: b. Global Climate Change
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a. It was begun, and won, by China. b. The Chinese began hostilities as the only means available to them to stop the opium trade of the British. c. Philippine smugglers used the war to monopolize the Chinese opium trade. d. The British used Chinese objection to opium importation as a pretext to unilaterally invade China and forcibly open it to Western trade. e. The war was a competitive confrontation between the Western colonialist nations to determine which would be the most successful at flooding China with opium.
The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy
a. came with the bombing of Cambodia. b. occurred when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigned. c. was the Tet offensive of 1968. d. occurred when Senator J. William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee held public hearings on the war. e. came with the revelation that the Tonkin Gulf attacks had been provoked by the United States.
The Boxer Rebellion was supported by the Empress Dowager Cixi because it was essentially
a. supportive of her rule. b. anti-Western. c. Christian. d. pro-Qing.
Under the terms of the Geneva accords, Vietnam was
A. to hold elections in 1956. B. to receive military aid from the United States. C. to unify with nearby Laos and Cambodia. D. to be controlled by France. E. permanently divided into two parts along the 17th parallel.