Which of the following ideas was held to be true in both Renaissance Italy and in Reformation Europe?
A. The interests of the laity are no longer subordinate to clergy.
B. Medieval Christian values are important teachings.
C. The philosophies of Plato and Aristotle are counter to truth.
D. Art must be abstract and formulaic.
Answer: A
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a. were a hereditary warrior class in medieval Japan recruited in Manchuria and Siberia. b. were similar medieval European knights. c. were the oath-pledged military retainers of the shogun, constituting a formal national army. d. took oaths of poverty, chastity and obedience before their formal investiture. e. were recruited from the peasant class.
The language of the Vedas was
a. Prakrit. b. Sanskrit. c. Hindi. d. Gujarati. e. Farsi.
Which of the following statements concerning the Battle of Shiloh is not correct?
A) Confederate General Beauregard announced victory prematurely. B) It was the costly battle in American history to that point in time. C) Confederate forces withdrew after Union reinforcements arrived and launched a successful counterattack. D) Grant and Sherman won a great victory with relatively few casualties. E) Confederate armies staged a surprise attack on General Grant's army.
Why did President Johnson's quick reconstruction of ex-Confederate states shock reformers?
A. His lenient terms for reconstruction belied his earlier states' rights stance. B. He had long expressed a desire to destroy the southern planter aristocracy. C. His harsh terms for reconstruction belied his earlier promises of leniency. D. He failed to follow through on his promise to grant the freedmen voting rights.