What was the most important instrument of centralizing power in Afroeurasia in the sixteenth century?
A. a layered bureaucracy not beholden to landed nobles
B. firearms
C. the Protestant Reformation and the loss of power in Rome
D. the introduction of mounted cavalry
Answer: B
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A likely reason that the Persians wanted to invade Greece during the fifth century B.C.E. was
a. to gain new tributary states. b. to prove that they could. c. for religious reasons. d. to avenge the destruction of Susa.
Referring to the illustration in the text, Revolution in Vienna, May 1848, which of the following statements describes the major theme of the scene?
a. The Hapsburgs were forced to give into student liberal demands. b. The revolutionary forces were drawn from the working class. c. Army forces joined with students in revolts. d. Magyars were able to storm Vienna. e. Bismarckian planned student actions were successful in weakening Austrian control in the German States.
In response to the demographic decline in the 1970s and 1980s, Europe tried to regain laborers through
a. extensive training programs for the unemployed. b. offering opportunities for work but not citizenship to guest workers. c. extending the age of retirement to seventy-five. d. decreasing taxes to attract more émigrés. e. active recruitment at universities in Third World nations.
Why did other physicians tease Andreas Vesalius?
a) They had been trained in Galen’s theories, which Vesalius denounced, and Vesalius’s dissection of corpses for surgical training led other doctors to call him a butcher. b) Their training called for them to have low-paid, uneducated assistants to do the dissections and examinations that Vesalius did for himself. Consider This: Why did Vesalius hire artists to record his findings? See 3.3: Scientific Society and 3.1.2: The Weight of the Past. c) They believed that Vesalius was only claiming to have done the research and that he made up his results. Consider This: Why did Vesalius hire artists to record his findings? See 3.3: Scientific Society and 3.1.2: The Weight of the Past. d) They were jealous because Vesalius secured a position as physician to the Holy Roman Emperor. Consider This: Why did Vesalius hire artists to record his findings? See 3.3: Scientific Society and 3.1.2: The Weight of the Past.