Religions that incorporate pilgrimages into their rituals emphasize travel to what sort of shrine?
a) locations important in the life of the religions' founder
b) the site of future communities of faith
c) a site where donations are accepted to support the work of the church
d) rivers important in the history of the religion
e) the site of destroyed temples
a) locations important in the life of the religions' founder
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A. the microchip B. vacuum tubes C. the transistor D. the internet
Scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England was
A) greatly retarded by civil war and political upheaval. B) of little interest to influential people. C) limited to military technology. D) caught up in and stimulated by religious and political controversy. E) personified by the life of Robert Boyle who was mainly interested in astronomy.
The 1927 Mississippi flood
A) demonstrated Coolidge's lack of concern for people's problems. B) set a precedent for federal involvement in local affairs. C) destroyed homes, but stimulated an effort to improve housing for sharecroppers. D) caused extensive damage because nobody had taken any precautions against flooding.
Tougaloo, Hampton, and Fisk are examples of:
A) black teaching colleges after the Civil War. B) places where lynchings took place. C) towns founded by freed African Americans in the West. D) missionaries who went South to help in "wayside schools."