Who allegedly contended that "Christians and spices" were the primary motives of the explorations of the fifteenth century?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. Vasco da Gama
c. Leo Africanus
d. Sonni Ali
e. Marco Polo
b
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Who negotiated the purchase of the area south of Gila River?
A) John Atkinson B) James Gadsden C) Thomas Shearon D) Davy Crockett
From which of the following professions were women NOT excluded?
A. law B. medicine C. scholarship D. baker E. None of these answers is correct.
Grant's capture of the city of Vicksburg and Port Hudson in Louisiana in July 1863:
A) led most northerners to believe that victory would come quickly, with very few casualties. B) gave the Union total control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy into two parts. C) overshadowed Meade's victory over Lee at Gettysburg. D) set the stage for the capture of Mobile Bay in Alabama the next month. E) convinced Grant's detractors that he was not, as they asserted, "always drunk."
According to Paula Gunn Allen, many people believe that Indian men have suffered more damage to their traditional status than have Indian women. She attributes this to:
a. colonial attitudes about the primacy of male experience. b. historical fact. c. the way that women continue to enjoy positions of power, respect, and decision making. d. the legacy of tribal life where childbearer and nurturer were devalued statuses.