The term polis refers to the
a. county.
b. police.
c. people.
d. city-state.
e. culture.
d
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The shift from primarily land-based or near-shore sea trade to trade spanning the world's oceans meant that
A) trade and cultural exchanges across the intercontinental continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa ended. B) Genoa remained a primary European link to Asia. C) Spain and Portugal replaced Genoa and Venice as the primary European links to Asia. D) Spanish and Portuguese ships dominated trade across the Indian Ocean.
Which of the following is an accurate statement about the Arab Empire?
a. It was strongly united under the tight control of the caliph in Baghdad. b. It created an era of great economic prosperity in the Middle East region in the Abbasid era. c. It contained fewer urban centers than any other regime of its era. d. Under Islamic principles, trade was limited and every Muslim received the same income. e. It was culturally and intellectually inferior to the Frankish empire of Charlemagne.
Louis Brandeis convinced Woodrow Wilson to center his 1912 presidential campaign on which issue?
a. Big business b. Foreign policy c. Conservation d. Women's suffrage
Corporations received broad judicial protection in the 1880s and 1890s when the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that _____________________.
A. stockholders were not liable for a corporation's debts B. corporations, like individuals, were protected by laws preventing the government from depriving them of property rights C. the Bill of Rights prevented the government from interfering with corporate activity D. general incorporation laws were constitutional