The Russian radical and nobleman who, inspired by the philosophers of the West, urged the abolition of serfdom during the reign of Catherine the Great was
A) Turgenev
B) Pugachev
C) Ulanov
D) Radishev
Answer: D) Radishev
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a. Haiti. b. Mexico. c. the United States. d. Latin America. e. France.
The Postal Act of 1711 brought together the mail systems of
A. England and North America. B. England, Ireland, and Scotland. C. all the colonial city post offices. D. England, Ireland, Scotland, and North America.
Charlemagne was grandson of Charles Martel, who stopped the Muslim armies at Tours. In his general policies and political preferences, all of the following are valid EXCEPT:
a. He represented the first full synthesis of Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultural elements. b. He forged a distinctive Western cultural identity and raised its status. c. He was able to severely limit the Church’s influence so they could not pull political power from him. d. His imperial status was recognized by the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid.
Equiano described his lifelong experience with
a. the American Carolinas. b. the sea. c. being a merchant so he could observe the conditions of Africans during the Middle Passage. d. Christianity. e. the histories of African empires.