The new steam engines required affordable access to
a. traditionally produced iron and coal.
b. iron and major rivers.
c. wood and traditionally produced iron.
d. coal and improved, stronger iron.
e. improved, stronger iron and major rivers.
d
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All of the following contributed to the economic problems that emerged in the 1920s EXCEPT
A) the unequal distribution of wealth. B) the low prices of manufactured goods. C) falling demand for such products as automobiles. D) high tariffs. E) agricultural overproduction.
Built in the early 1200s, the Laibela monoliths were probably a reaction to:
a. The rediscovery of African spiritualism by the Aksumite kings. b. The Muslims' recovery of Jerusalem in 1187. c. The need for an Islamic pilgrimage center that was closer than Mecca. d. A threatened Arab invasion and the need for a systematic defense.
The Mapuche tribes were ultimately defeated in their attempt to resist the Chilean military campaigns because
a. they practiced indigenous religion instead of converting to Catholicism. b. they practiced human sacrifice, alienating potential supporters. c. they were suspected of providing assistance in slave revolts, bringing down the wrath of both the government and the landowners. d. they could not withstand the superior modern weaponry imported from industrialized nations. e. they were on marginal lands that could not support the tribe, and the Chilean government starved them out.
In 1945, the vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas of interest was largely shared by both Josef Stalin and
A. Mao Zedong. B. Franklin Roosevelt. C. Harry Truman. D. Winston Churchill. E. Charles de Gaulle.