One of the reasons Sundiata acquired and held onto on to power was because he claimed to have special knowledge of what?
a. Islam
b. gold mining
c. Saharan trade routs Saharan trade routes
d. iron working
e. magic
e
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The arguments of revisionist historians include the fact that
a. France before 1789 did not have a self-conscious bourgeois class with aspirations of control of the state. b. the bourgeois sought to acquire noble status rather than eliminate it. c. many nobles were involved in business areas traditionally considered the province of the bourgeoisie. d. some nobles shared with the bourgeois the liberal values of the Enlightenment. e. all of the above
As far as world conquerors go, subject peoples would have approved of the Arab rulers of the seventh and eighth centuries for all EXCEPT which of the following reasons?
a. Rulers restricted Arab armies of occupation to garrison towns, segregated from the native populations. b. Rulers were happy to accept local elites into the empire. c. Rulers gave special tax breaks to subjects who were "people of the book." d. Rulers did not force their new subjects to convert to Islam.
The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, in part, by
A. both the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the new technology of skyscrapers. B. the economic depression of 1893. C. the new technology of skyscrapers. D. the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. E. None of these answers is correct.
All of the following statements regarding the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers are true EXCEPT that
A. Hiss was convicted of espionage. B. the case cast suspicion on a generation of liberal Democrats. C. classified documents allegedly stolen by Hiss were kept hidden by Chambers in a pumpkin. D. Chambers was a former communist agent. E. Hiss served several years in prison.