After the fall of the western portion of the Roman Empire, the official tongue of Constantinople shifted from Latin to which of the following?
a. Turkish
b. Persian
c. Chinese
d. Arabic
e. Greek
Answer: e. Greek
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a. this exchange made food less expensive and more available to larger numbers of people. b. new markets were created for food that raised people's incomes around the world and their ability to support large families. c. complexity and diversity were reintroduced into the human food chain. d. the exchange promoted urbanization and a healthier lifestyle for people.
Octavian is more generally known by the title ________
A) Caesar B) princeps C) Augustus D) rex
Which of the following was not a writer who chronicled the development of the West in the late nineteenth century?
A) ?Mark Twain. B) ?Mary Halleck Foote. C) ?Bret Harte. D) ?James Fenimore Cooper. E) ?All of these are correct.
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A) their location at the intersection of rivers B) their location at the center of railroad connections C) the discovery of oil that attracted investors D) the discovery of gold that attracted settlers