Compare and contrast the three heirs to the Greco-Roman world: Byzantium, Islam, and the West
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: This synthetic essay should survey and compare, as best as the text permits, the economy, social system, political system, religion, and intellectual and cultural life of the three societies.
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At the battle of __________, 11,000 Sudanese troops were killed and 16,000 were wounded, compared to only 48 British troops lost.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The picaresque novel dealt with the
A) adventures of heroic knights in a fantastic world inhabited by giants and wizards. B) problems of the new middle class. C) love affairs and intrigues of the nobility. D) seamy side of a world inhabited by rogues and vagabonds.
The Vedas:
a. Can be trusted by historians and archeologists because they were accounts of events which were written as they occurred. b. Were written down after 600 BCE, but grew from an oral tradition composed between about 1400 and 900 BCE. c. Represent the authors’ best efforts to convey accurate information to future generations rather than being in any way allegorical or mythological. d. Were lost for centuries, but discovered and translated by archeologist Sir Arthur Murphy in 1925.
The most forceful American intervention during the Clinton presidency took place in:
A) the Persian Gulf. B) China. C) Bosnia and Kosovo. D) Grenada.