How did the Roman Republic contribute to the development of Western civilization?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The political institutions of the Roman Republic were used as models for building republican government for the next two millennia.
b. The ideal of civic virtue continues to influence Western political thought and practice.
c. Roman law, as expressed in the Law of the Twelve Tables, became the basis of Western legal traditions.
d. The Roman Republic preserved the Hellenistic legacy and created the Greco-Roman culture that would be the foundation of Western civilization.
e. The Julian calendar was used in western Europe until the sixteenth century.
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A) stopping the Underground Railroad. B) the concept of Manifest Destiny. C) popular sovereignty. D) maintaining supremacy in the U.S. Senate.
One consequence of New England's uninviting land was
a. an urban migration. b. the absence of Indian competition. c. a dislike for agriculture. d. a desire among Puritans to move into the Southern colonies. e. a lack of immigration and thus less ethnic diversity than other regions.
Using the Schlieffen Plan,
a. Germany launched a massive invasion of the Warsaw region of Poland. b. France declared war on Austria. c. Italy invaded the Austrian Tyrol. d. Germany invaded France by way of Belgium. e. England declared war on Belgium.
What was the Manhattan Project?
A) ?a top-secret program aimed at creating an atomic bomb B) ?a program to ensure the profitability of private corporations with government contracts C) ?a program in which the government assumed ownership of automobile factories to make planes and tanks D) ?a program aimed at developing new technologies to counter the threat of German submarines