Which of the following scientific discoveries is not attributed to Galileo?
a. that the sun had spots
b. invention of the telescope
c. that matter is continually in motion
d. that the sun is fixed in the universe and the earth rotates on an axis
e. All of these were attributed to Galileo.
e
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Thucydides
a. ascribed the final outcome of the Peloponnesian Wars to divine intervention. b. looked for myths and legends behind historical truth. c. commanded the Greek fleet at Salamis. d. commanded the Athenian expedition to Syracuse. e. rejected the notion that the gods interfere in history.
Which of the following was true of Britain in 1815?
a. Unemployment was high. b. All of the answers are correct. c. Bread prices were high because of grain tariffs. d. Enclosure system were driving people out of villages. e. New factory system was driving people into urban slums.
In general, the "Redeemer" ("Bourbon") political regimes were inclined to raise taxes to expand services, especially public education
a. true b. false
The novelist William Dean Howells remarked, “It is in these things of iron and steel that the national genius most freely speaks.” Which of the following is an example of the “things” to which Howells refers?
a) Corliss engine b) garment industry c) labor unions d) iron law of wages