What public health measure used by Europeans in the tropics drastically reduced troop death rates from both malaria and yellow fever?
A. mosquito eradications
B. daily bathing
C. the burning of body waste
D. the use of lime in pit toilets
Answer: A
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How did economic competition and political dissatisfaction lead to the American Revolution?
What will be an ideal response?
The Great War was precipitated by the
A) Austrians launching a massive offensive across Switzerland in order to outflank and surprise the French. B) assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by a Serbian nationalist. C) French invading Germany to seek revenge for their humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War. D) inability of the French and the Germans to reach a peaceful settlement in their dispute over control of the Alsace-Lorraine region.
Cincinnati took advantage of the fat renderings from its pig-slaughtering houses by using it to produce ___________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).