In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire
A) continued to be a world power with territories in Asia, Europe, and Africa.
B) declined because its bureaucracy had fallen into decay and its reform-minded sultan was assassinated.
C) suffered from the lawlessness of its once elite military force, the Janissaries.
D) was generally tolerant of Jews and Christians.
E) All of the above.
Ans: E
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a) Slavery became more economically important and entrenched in the South. b) Slavery declined as a result of the ban on the international slave trade. c) Slavery declined in the South as immigrant labor replaced slave labor. d) Slavery declined in the Deep South but increased in the Upper South.
During the reign of Akhenaten,
a. monotheism permanently replaced polytheism in ancient Egypt. b. foreign affairs were ignored and Syria and Palestine were lost. c. Thebes was replaced by Cairo as the capital. d. the Hyksos invaded the Nile Valley. e. the Sea Peoples were driven from Egypt.
Commedia dell'arte companies:
A. usually consisted of ten performers: seven men and three women. B. had a catalogue of written scripts from which they chose to perform. C. originated in Italy but were popular throughout most countries in Europe. D. All of the above. E. None of the above.
The philosophical doctrine of existentialism, with its emphasis on God as a fiction, no preordained human destiny, and the human creation of all values
A) was dominant in the universities of Great Britain and the United States. B) concentrated on logic and a theory of knowledge. C) was totally at odds with the confidence and prosperity of the post-war world. D) was best expressed in the works of the French writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. E) exemplified the spiritualism of the "Age of Aquarius."