During the Abbasid dynasty,
a. Damascus became the Islamic capital.
b. Greek writings were regarded as heretical and forbidden.
c. the caliphs were more like kings than spiritual leaders.
d. Persians began silk-cultivation.
e. there was a revival of Zoroastrianism.
c
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The Deist faith
a. emphasized the concept of original sin. b. prized revelation over reason. c. put women at the center of religious worship. d. believed in human beings' inclination to depravity. e. rejected the idea of Christ´s divinity.
President James Madison made a major strategic foreign policy mistake that undermined his effort to persuade Britain to repeal its commercial restriction against American trade when he
a. accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions. b. failed to suppress the war hawks in his own party. c. permitted Napoleon to offer financial aid to the United States. d. failed to take up Napoleon's suggestion that French trade restrictions would be lifted if the American trade restrictions on trade with France were repealed by the United States. e. tried to use Russia as a counterweight to Britain and France.
In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to
A. encourage the Japanese navy to overextend itself past the Gilbert Islands, then attack from behind. B. establish a strong defensive position in the Solomon Islands to lure in the Japanese. C. concentrate U.S. forces into one large offensive moving west from the Marshall Islands. D. quickly recapture the Midway Islands from the Japanese. E. mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions.