Which of the following describes the general situation in sub-Saharan Africa when the Europeans began arriving in increasing numbers?
A) The Muslim kingdom of Mali controlled the Maghreb.
B) All of West Africa was united under the king of Guinea.
C) Ethiopia had just been conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
D) Most African kingdoms were embroiled in warfare.
D
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Which of the following is NOT true of the Latin American cities with large numbers of peasant migrants?
A) Many migrants come to the cities without a network of friends and family. B) The migrants live in barrios surrounding the older parts of the cities. C) Many migrants live off small, sporadic incomes. D) Many migrants are unskilled workers who are forced to take day work. E) The migrants have been continually coming to the cities for over forty years.
The concerns of reformers included all of the following EXCEPT
A. the threat of slavery spreading to the North. B. how cities might undermine the character of their families. C. threats to the social order posed by a growing labor class who did not attend church. D. transmitting values to their children that might secure a promising future for them.
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.
What was Columbus's goal in setting forth across the Atlantic in 1492? Was his voyage successful?
What will be an ideal response?