Which of the following people or groups did NOT precede Martin Luther in challenging the authority of the papacy on the basis of reading the Scriptures?
A) Thomas More
B) Peter Waldo
C) John Wyclif
D) the Spirituals
E) John Hus
Answer: A
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A) Cedric Holland. B) Michael Ventris. C) Arthur Evans. D) Heinrich Schliemann. E) Louis Leakey.
Northern attitudes toward free blacks before the Civil War have been described as
a. supporting blacks right to full citizenship and higher education. b. disliking the race but professing appreciation for individual blacks. c. advocating black movement into the new territories. d. politically sympathetic but socially segregationist. e. disliking individual blacks, even accomplished blacks such as Frederick Douglass, but professing admiration for the black race.
In the 1905 Taft-Katsura Agreement, __________
a. the United States and Japan agreed not to attack each other for at least 50 years b. the United States exchanged recognition of Japanese control of Korea for a Japanese pledge not to invade the Philippines c. Japan agreed to limit emigration to the United States d. the United States and Japan agreed to a policy of mutual free trade e. the United States and Japan agreed to uphold the Open Door and support Chinese independence
The Sumerians
A) defeated the Hittites in 2600 B.C.E. B) were plagued by incessant warfare between their many city-states. C) had a complicated religion with a sophisticated belief in life after death. D) were warriors who instituted totalitarian government. E) built damns and irrigation canals along the Indus River.