Russian Czar Nicholas I came up with a nickname for the Ottoman Empire that stuck:
a. “The Fundamentalist Threat to Europe”
b. “The Sick Man of the Middle East”
c. “The Sick Man of Europe”
d. “Banana Republic”
e. “The Dustbin of History”
Ans: c
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A) increasingly diversified. B) less reliant on government intervention. C) less dependent on market forces. D) more dependent on market forces.
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A) The English Crown totally funded the colonies, while the Spanish Crown offered little aid to its colonizers. B) The English efforts were private, and the Spanish colonies were supported by the Crown. C) The English settled the interior lands, while the Spanish settled primarily in coastal regions. D) Religion played a central role in all the English colonies, but had little or no impact in New Spain. E) The English were more concerned with finding wealth in the New World, while the Spanish wanted to establish permanent settlements.
Nationalist revolts were most common in the nineteenth century in the
a. British Isles. b. Rhineland. c. Balkans. d. Iberian peninsula. e. Scandinavia.
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A) Hungary B) Yugoslavia C) Poland D) Czechoslovakia