What was the primary motive for European exploration around 1500 A.D.?
a. Adventure
b. Evangelizing
c. Wealth
d. Discovering water routes
e. Finding spices
c
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Several events had combined to alter Western Europeans' ideas about the earth by the 18th century. These did not include
a. the circumnavigation of the globe b. the discovery of the New World c. the notion of a sun-centered universe d. a less than rigid feudal class system e. "arguments from design", meaning structures were engineered to meet purposes for which they were designed
When Mendel crossed true breeding tall and short parent plants (producing first generation), what was produced?
a. ?About 90 percent were tall, but the rest were short. b. ?All the offspring were tall. c. ?Half the offspring were tall, the other half were short. d. ?The offspring were intermediate in height relative to the two parent plants. e. ?All the offspring were short.
In environments that were averse to the development of cultivation, societies tended to become:
a. pastoralist b. agricultural c. horticulturalist d. urban