The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the gift of what river?
a. Tigris
b. Nile
c. Indus
d. Oxus
e. Euphrates
b
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Southerners wanted a transcontinental railroad to travel a Southern route for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:
a. The railroad would channel the flow of gold from California through their region. b. The railroad would allow new settlement. c. The railroad would spread cotton agriculture. d. The railroad would bring badly needed industrial development to the South.
Which of the following was true of the sexual abuse and harassment of black women by white men in the late nineteenth century?
A) It demonstrated the power of white men over African Americans. B) It rarely went unpunished and so was quite rare. C) It was routinely denounced by white officials but little was done about it. D) It was more common in urban communities than in rural communities.
Where was the world's first colonial plantation economy established?
A. Azores, 1450s B. Canaries, 1460s C. Madeiras, 1470s D. West Indies, 1490s
The Indian civilization that had no written language but kept records on knotted strings was the ________ civilization
A) Mayan B) Aztec C) Inca D) Pueblo Indian E) Adena