The first Portuguese captain to round the southern tip of Africa was
A) Alfonso de Albuquerque.
B) Pedro Cabral.
C) Vasco da Gama.
D) Bartolomeu Dias.
E) Vasco de Balboa.
D
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When Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned because of charges of income tax evasion in 1973, he was replaced by
A) Nelson A. Rockefeller. B) Gerald R. Ford. C) Howard H. Baker, Jr. D) Henry Kissinger.
What was the period between the reigns of Nero and Nerva called?
A) Pax Romana B) Antonine Age C) Julio–Claudian dynasty D) Year of the Four Emperors
In the How Do We Know? video in section 7.6, the “necessary and proper” clause is also referred to as the __________ clause
A) federalist B) liberal C) conservative D) elastic
What made the Christian New Testament a powerful influence for centuries after Jesus?
A) The Gospels are testimonials of faith that did not depend on eyewitness evidence. B) Other Greek and Roman writings confirmed all of the main points of the Christian writings. C) Most people around the Mediterranean continued to speak Greek for centuries after Jesus. D) Christian writings confirmed Jewish expectations that the Messiah would be a political rather than a spiritual leader. E) Paul made the historical Jesus he had personally known the center of the faith.