Which of the following regions used new windmill-pumping technology to drain 57,000 acres of land to make it suitable for farming?
a. England
b. Japan
c. Holland
d. China
a
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A) continue ecumenicalism. B) impose Sunni orthodoxy. C) overthrow the ulama. D) move the capital to Calcutta. E) spread Islam into China.
The creation of the Tokugawa Shogunate was in what year?
A. 1543 B. 1549 C. 1592 D. 1603 E. 1612
Kevin Phillips, in his study The Emerging Republican Majority concluded all of the following EXCEPT
A) the Vietnam War had a direct impact on shaping voter opinions. B) a political insurgency had emerged in the West and South, and among the Irish in New York City and in the suburbs, where many of the white middle-class resided. C) voters had become disillusioned with the massive expansion of government through the Great Society. D) many middle-class white voters were reacting negatively to the Civil Rights Movement.
The idea of liberalism in eighteenth-century British politics:
a. prompted two eighteenth-century leaders, Joseph McCarthy and Hugh McCarran, to demand independence for Ireland. b. brought great wealth and power to its main voice, John Locke. c. had the same meaning as liberalism in twenty-first-century American politics. d. was compatible with inequalities in wealth and well-being.