The Suez Canal, built in 1869 largely by French engineers and French capital, was significant because it
a. connected the Nile with the Red Sea.
b. connected the Mediterranean with the Persian Gulf.
c. reduced the travel time from Europe to India from months to weeks.
d. gave Egyptian agriculture an advantage by putting hundreds of thousands of new acres under cultivation.
c
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In Massachusetts the concept of the "City upon a Hill" referred to:
a. the capitol building and the town meeting house in Boston b. the first religious college in the colonies, Harvard c. a godly community where holiness guided a person's life d. granting full civil rights to all citizens
Look at Map 31.2, The Russian empire, 1801-1914. What were the chief areas of Russian expansion? What areas would lead to trouble for Russia in the future with the western Europeans and Japanese? What role would the Trans-Siberian Railroad play?
What will be an ideal response?
The main role of the prophets was
A) fortunetelling. B) exhorting the Hebrews to righteousness and devotion to God. C) leadership of the Hebrew army. D) political rule of Israel. E) writing a secular history of the Jewish people.
The French Republic's army in the 1790s
A) received little backing from the home front. B) was small, but effective in battle. C) fueled modern nationalism and was raised through total mobilization of the population. D) was totally defeated by foreign aristocratic forces. E) got weaker and smaller as the decade went by.