All of the following is true of Iran EXCEPT:
a. It is also often called Persia.
b. It was the Sunni alternative to the Shiite Ottomans.
c. Two dynasties of kings (shahs) ruled Iran between 1501 and 1925.
d. Iranian rulers had to respect a balance of power between Shiites and Sunnis.
b. It was the Sunni alternative to the Shiite Ottomans.
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A) States had the right to control their own affairs. B) The union of states was to be defended above all else. C) The South would soon surpass the North in industrial production. D) Slavery would gradually wither away without interference. E) The North was dependent on Southern agriculture.
Barack Obama became the _________ President of the United States
A) 45th B) 54th C) 42nd D) 44th
To what does the Tanzimat refer?
A. an era of reform in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire B. local administrative councils in the Ottoman Empire C. Turkish nationalism organizations D. an alliance between the Ottoman Empire and Russia
What did Mesopotamians believe about the forces that controlled the world?
a. That a single god controlled the universe and everything in it b. That human beings controlled their destinies c. That unreliable supernatural forces controlled the world d. That people could control nature with the help of the gods e. That the world was controlled by two competing gods