Discuss the rise of the Achaemenid empire. Describe its cultural, political, economic, and religious character. In which ways was the Achaemenid empire different than previous empires, and in which important ways did it parallel both previous and contemporaneous empires?
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a. Hong Kong b. Bo Hai c. The Isthmus of Kra d. Indonesia e. the South China Sea
The Anabaptists
A) gained most popularity in England and Ireland. B) were not regarded as a political threat, as they preached separation between church and state. C) were founded by Conrad Grebel, beginning as an elitist movement. D) advocated adult baptism, and if they had been baptized as children, a second baptism. E) peacefully merged with the Calvinists and Lutherans.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, it seems that science had fundamentally changing humanity's position in the universe because
a. Copernicus had moved humanity from the center of the universe. b. Newton had made the universe into a mechanism. c. Science appeared to be saying that humanity is not the focus of God's creation. d. Darwin's theory seemed to show that humanity is not as special as once thought. e. all of the above