This Hellenistic scientist was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth within 200 miles:
A. Eratosthenes
B. Thucydides
C. Hipparchus
D. Aristarchus
E. Euclid
A
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The author of The Progress of the Human Mind and who became a victim of the French Revolution was
A) Condorcet. B) Holbach. C) Quesnay. D) Arouet. E) Danton.
Which of the following best characterizes the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 1400s?
A) Columbus reached India and Japan. B) Columbus successfully sailed east to reach China. C) Columbus proved that the earth was much smaller than most people believed. D) Columbus made navigation mistakes that led to his accidental landfall in the Americas.
A huge source of profits to slave-owners in the upper South was selling slaves to plantations in the lower South.
a. true b. false
The first city attacked with atomic weapons was
A. Nagasaki. B. Tokyo. C. Hiroshima. D. Edo.