An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was
A) Mary Wollstonecraft.
B) Marie Antoinette.
C) Mary Astell.
D) Catherine the Great.
E) the Marquise du Chatelet.
E
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A) failed to gain any international recognition. B) was active throughout Africa, demanding the return of land to the natives. C) was established by radicals in Kenya to attack white settlers and colonial officials. D) advocated the purchase of African colonial lands from white landowners. E) caused South Africa to reform its discriminatory policies.
Which of the following is a theme in the Epic of Gilgamesh?
A) the celebration of individual free will B) the belief in a heavenly paradise C) the unpredictability of human life D) the harmony between man and nature
Which of the following best explains the deterioration of the working and living conditions of workers in New England textile mills in the 1830s and 1840s? a. Living and working conditions deteriorated primarily because of the economic depression of the late 1830s. b. Working and living conditions deteriorated primarily because of the growing labor surplus. c. A depression led management to
focus more on profits than on providing decent working and livingconditions for the workers. d. Competition from English imports was the primary reason for the deterioration of working and livingconditions.
Pope Urban II's promise to forgive the sins of those who participated in the Crusades blurred the line between __________
A) Romans and Byzantines B) Christians and Muslims C) pilgrim and crusader D) clergy and laity