The most famous map projection in history is
A) the portolani.
B) Ptolemy's Geography.
C) that of Gerardus Mercator.
D) Galileo's The Starry Messenger.
E) dead-reckoning.
C
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What kind of appeals did Charles Finney use to attract converts to his brand of evangelical Christianity?
a) emotional b) rational c) theological d) economic
Senator Stephen A. Douglas declared that Kansas's Lecompton constitution was
A) a travesty of the principle of popular sovereignty. B) at odds with the Dred Scott decision. C) a proper basis for admitting Kansas as a slave state. D) a fraudulent product of free soil Kansans.
European society in the eighteenth century witnessed
A) earlier ages of marriage for both brides and grooms. B) the continued dominance of the nuclear family. C) the declining importance of the woman in the "family economy." D) rapidly declining rates of illegitimate births and a consequent decline in infanticide. E) the establishment of households containing all members of newly married couples' extended families.
The defenestration of Prague occurred in 1617 when
a. Ferdinand II's representatives were expelled from Bohemia in rejection of mandated Catholicism. b. Ferdinand's emissaries were thrown out of windows by Protestants. c. Protestants in Bohemia rejected the decree from Ferdinand that all churches must have stained-glass windows. d. the Protestant king Frederick fell to his death from a window, and rumors of a murder conspiracy circulated. e. all Protestants in Bohemia shuttered their windows during a royal procession as a protest against Catholicism.