Queen Isabella decided to finance exploratory voyages, in part, because she
a. believed it would divert her subjects' attention away from Spain's domestic problems.
b. hoped profits from such voyages would help finance an expedition to wrest Jerusalem from the Muslims.
c. wanted to prevent England from colonizing Africa.
d. wanted knowledge about other world cultures.
b
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According to nineteenth-century economist John Smith Dye, the entire history of the United States was the record of repeated
A) abolitionist attempts to foment slave rebellion in the South. B) efforts by the federal government to destroy states' rights. C) Southern plots to expand slavery. D) slaveholder conspiracies to destroy the Union.
In undertaking his reforms, which of these was likely not anticipated by Mikhail Gorbachev?
A) a change in Russia's political culture B) opposition from die-hard communists C) the end of the Soviet Union D) rapid economic change
How did Beijing assist North Vietnam in its war with the U.S.?
A. It threatened to invade Taiwan. B. Chinese divisions engaged American Marines along the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). C. It sent "volunteers" to join People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) units fighting in South Vietnam. D. Its fighter aircraft intercepted American attack planes over the Tonkin Gulf. E. It provided huge amounts of supplies, munitions, as well as 320,000 troops.
Herodotus and Thucydides contributed to what discipline?
A) history B) poetry C) drama D) engineering