A headline from a late nineteenth-century newspaper referred to Alfred Nobel as the __________.
A) European Conquistador
B) Belgian Correspondent
C) Poet of Empire
D) Merchant of Death
D) Merchant of Death
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Which of the following statements about the slave family is true?
a. Masters rarely broke up slave families. b. Masters usually discouraged slaves from forming family units. c. Most southern states had legalized slave marriages by 1860. d. Children were often named after relatives of past generations as a way of emphasizing family history.
Despite their reluctant to favor anything European or Christian, the Safavids did cultivate a relationship with them against which empire?
a. Russians. b. Sudanese. c. Spanish. d. Chinese. e. Ottomans.
Conservatives such as Burke believed all the following to be true EXCEPT
a. human nature and social relations are too complex to be subject to social engineering. b. the Enlightenment and revolutionaries had reduced people to abstractions divorced from their historical environment. c. individuals have only limited intelligence and must rely on "the general bank and capital of nations and of the ages." d. beneficial institutions need not be rational or intellectually elegant. e. society is a complex mechanism that should be overhauled.
The Neutrality Act of 1937:
a. imposed a "moral embargo" on all factions fighting in the Spanish Civil War. b. embargoed Francisco Franco but sent arms to the Republicans in Spain. c. required warring nations to pay cash for all "nonwar" goods and carry them on their own ships. d. exempted Americans sailing on belligerent ships.