How do historians regard the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John?
a. They do not use the gospels at all.
b. They use some parts of the gospels in writing history but discard many others.
c. They see the gospels as not terribly helpful in reconstructing the history of that era.
d. They treat them as solid factual accounts of Jesus's life and times.
e. They use them to recreate the past, recognizing that they may be biased documents since they were written by devotees of early Christianity.
e
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A. banned immigration by non-Westerners. B. sent military operatives to the U.S. for training. C. adopted a tough anti-China stance. D. made nation-building its main focus, including land and other reforms. E. implemented policies to broaden trade with the U.S.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Hamilton and Armstrong suggest that working-class men find themselves in a relational double bind when they go to college. 2. Hamilton and Armstrong found that rather than struggling to get into relationships, women had to work to avoid them. 3. Hamilton and Armstrong found that less privileged women were eight times more likely than class privileged women to leave the university due to the mismatch between their hometown culture and the hookup culture of college. 4. Class privileged women view college as a marriage marketplace where they can meet future husbands based on their major and future earning potential.
By about 700 B.C.E., the hoplites, Greek citizen-soldiers took advantage of which of the following contemporaneous military innovations:
A. conscription of all male Greeks living in Greek city-states. B. infantry phalanxes. C. gunpowder . D. mercenaries. E. rifles.
The economic crisis that struck Mexico in 1981-1982 was caused by
A) restrictions on oil imports from Mexico by the United States. B) the flight of domestic and foreign capital from Mexico. C) a sharp decline in the purchasing power of Mexicans. D) a sharp decline in oil prices.