In 1718 France strengthened its presence near the Gulf of Mexico by establishing
a. Biloxi.
b. Mobile.
c. New Orleans.
d. Pensacola.
c
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A) It ruled that all states had to allow same-sex marriages. B) It was signed into law by President George W. Bush. C) It defined marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman. D) It required states that banned same-sex marriages to accept legal marriages performed in other states.
Whose sculpture Ethiopia Awakening was influenced by contemporary pan-Africanism and the conflation of Ethiopia with all of Africa?
a. Meta Fuller b. Henrietta Vinton Davis c. Hallie Q. Brown d. Josephine Ruffin
Saladin, the founder of the Islamic Ayyubid dynasty, was an important figure of the Crusades because he
a. divorced the Ayyubid from the Seljuqs. b. created an effective navy to blockade any aid to crusaders. c. lost the first battle to the crusaders at the Horns of Hattin. d. committed his dynasty and himself to a jihad against the crusades. e. prohibited Christians from entering the city of Jerusalem.
The primary significance of the Revolt of 1857 (also called the Sepoy Mutiny or Rebellion) was that
a. the smaller regional principalities in India were united under British control. b. it led to an extended period of martial law under the East India Company. c. it symbolizes the beginning of the movement for independence in India. d. it ended the use of Indian troops in British armies.