Which innovation enabled Romans to erect giant amphitheaters and public baths?
a. Steel
b. Copper
c. Calculus
d. Concrete
e. Load-bearing arches
d
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What did theorist Eduard Bernstein predict for politics in the 20th century?
A) The Social Democratic Party in Germany would take control of the government legally. B) Marx would revise his theories before he died. C) All countries would soon become socialist states. D) Capitalism would prevail in most European countries. E) The Social Democratic Party would be outlawed throughout Europe because politicians feared labor unions.
Much Roman art was created by Greek artists and craftspeople whose work demonstrated the realism and attention to detail prized by the Romans
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The final version of the Declaration of Independence
a. avoided any reference to slavery so that American slaveholders could not be accused of hypocrisy. b. included a denunciation of King George III for inflicting the slave trade—a “cruel war against human nature itself”—on the colonists. c. expressed sympathy for the slaves held in bondage in the American colonies, and looked forward to the day that they would be emancipated. d. prominently included the words “slave” and “slavery” to describe the condition into which the colonists would fall if they did not resist unjust British laws.
A republic is a government in which
a. citizens rule directly b. citizens rule through their elected representatives c. supreme power rests with a national government