Although the African Methodist Episcopal church has ordained women since 1898, the number of women ministers has only recently become significant; now __________ of the AME's 8,000 ministers are female
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: 3,000
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Absolutism means that
A) the real power in any state must be religious and exercised by the church. B) ultimate authority rests solely in the hands of a king who rules by divine right. C) subordinate powers have an absolute right to overrule the king on conducting the affairs of state. D) no matter how humble, male citizens have an absolute right to participate in politics. E) rule by a secular dictator, justifying his/her authority by supposedly serving the people.
The outcome of debates over slavery at the Constitutional Convention suggests that the first priority of the delegates there was to
A) perpetuate slavery. B) abolish slavery. C) create a strong union with a powerful central government. D) remove all barriers to the full practice of human rights.
How did the Crusades affect Italian cities?
A) The cities united to revive the Roman Empire. B) The cities became centers of inter-regional trade. C) The cities were turned into Latin principalities. D) The cities were conquered by Muslim crusaders.
Michel de Montaigne changed the character of humanism by
a. adding the principle, "the ends justify the means" in the real world. b. inventing Christian humanism. c. replacing optimism and civic virtue with skepticism and introspection. d. tying it more closely to empirical research and the new science. e. reintroducing the traditional Christian view of man as fundamentally evil.