What was the most significant change in eighteenth-century warfare that lessened the devastation on Europe?
What will be an ideal response?
The principle cause is that more wars were fought overseas, in Asia and in the Western Hemisphere. The wars that were fought in Europe were significantly shorter and less disruptive. Previous wars had brought disease from the filth of encampments and destroyed the fields where crops were grown, which in turn caused famines within the general population. In the eighteenth century, soldiers were also better fed, better supplied, and under stronger centralized control that lessened the effects of marauding and causing lateral damages.
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The Sherman Silver Purchase Act
a. failed to ease discontent among silver miners. b. led to an increase in gold reserves. c. limited the Treasury to purchasing only a small fraction of the nation’s silver production. d. none of these e. was opposed by President Cleveland who called its repeal shortly after his election as president.
What advantage did an indulgence grant the buyer?
A. release from time in purgatory B. the granting of an ecclesiastical post C. the founding of a religious order D. freedom from the church's holiday obligations
The import of manufactured goods from Europe to Africa
A. bettered the situations of most Africans. B. stimulated the growth of manufacturing in Africa. C. undermined local cottage industries and impoverished families. D. had negative effects on European factory workers. E. led to the permanent establishment of European settlements across the continent.
Popul Vuh describes the various ways the Maya communicated with the gods. Which belief or ritual is NOT one of their methods of communication?
a. Caves served as portals between the world of the living and the underworld. b. Royal blood offerings were sacred. c. Only one divine god was worshipped by all of the population. d. Intoxicating enemas were employed to see the dead. e. Prisoners of war were sacrificed in elaborate ceremonies.