Who were the principle actors of the Hundred Years' War?
A. peasants and the ruling class
B. the houses of Lancaster and York
C. France and Spain
D. England and France
Answer: D
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At the Congress of Berlin in 1878:
A. Germany became newly important on the world stage. B. Russia was permitted to occupy Constantinople. C. Bosnia-Herzegovina became an independent state. D. the Ottoman Empire was dismembered. E. Italy gained new territories in the Adriatic.
What was the most significant cause of the increase in federal aid to education and the shift to greater emphasis on basic disciplines in the late 1950s?
a. influx of non-English-speaking Hispanics into the United States. b. alarm over the popularity of the nonconformist Beats on college campuses. c. "war on poverty" that was declared when it became apparent that high-school drop-outs were swelling the welfare rolls d. discovery that there were more private schools in the suburbs than public schools in the cities. e. launch of Sputnik, which gave Americans reason to fear that they were intellectually and technologically backward.
The medieval __________ against Islam fired the romantic imagination.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The monumental architecture during the Safavid period is famous for its
a. simplicity and lack of embellishment. b. spontaneity and lack of coherent structure. c. use of ceramic tiles to decorate in lavish fashion the facades and domes of buildings. d. "illuminationist" approach to design.