Approximately what percentage of the western European population died in the Black Death?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
average of one-third (33%)
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Based upon your knowledge of the text, which of the following is the most plausible cause of the witch-hunts?
A. The droughts causing famine, especially in Ireland, led to the death of many, and since the witches claimed to control the weather, they were to blame. B. Witches were primarily women, and since women bore children that were causing an economic and scientific panic, they were to blame. C. The corrupt government needed a distracter from the bad publicity, and since the same women that were suspected witches were spreading the news of corruption, politicians saw witch hunts as an answer to both their problems. D. Religious split and warfare threatened the security of society, and the witches were the scapegoats of a social panic. E. Large numbers of men and women were actually engaged in witchcraft.
The southern response to war's end and Johnson's program of Reconstruction indicated
A. willingness to give an appearance of accommodation to northern desires. B. remorse and resolve to rebuild. C. despair and defiance. D. grudging recognition that they had to repudiate their old-line Confederate leadership.
What did the dispute between Hohenstaufen and Welf, both candidates for emperor, reveal?
A. significant foreign interference B. the limits of papal authority C. the development of German cultural identity D. the decline of centralized states
During Reconstruction, poor blacks and poor whites in the South
A) largely owned their own farmland. B) found economic independence through the tenant farming system. C) often became sharecroppers or tenant farmers. D) came together in harmony.