Columbus' first voyage to the New World was financed by
a. Spain
b. Portugal
c. Genoa
d. England
e. France
a
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During the war, labor-management relations were eased by:
A) creation of the National War Labor Board. B) a no-strike pledge by the IWW. C) wholesale arrests of union leaders. D) federal legislation establishing a $1.25 an hour minimum wage.
___________ would have been destroyed in a Muslim holy war had it not been for the timely arrival of a Portuguese fleet with artillery and musketeers in 1541.
a. Kongo. b. Yemen. c. Adal. d. Ethiopia.
As a result of his visit to the Portuguese colony on the Gold Coast of Africa, Columbus
a. began to understand how important rice cultivation could be in solving food shortages in his native Genoa. b. recognized the economic potential of the slave trade. c. acquired a hatred for abusive and exploitive labor systems. d. learned how important it was to understand and accept the belief systems of non-Europeans.
Which of the following was a lasting effect of Alexander the Great's rule, despite its brevity?
A. the adoption of Macedonian as the lingua franca wherever he had conquered B. the spread of the Greek pantheon of gods throughout Afroeurasia C. the spread of Greek culture from the Mediterranean to the Indus valley D. the rise of Greek-type democracies throughout the lands of Mesopotamia