What were the charges of corruption levied against the Catholic Church?
A) Unworthy clergy guiding the masses
B) Greedy popes and clergy exploiting the masses
C) Simony and the sale of indulgences
D) Popes and clergy were not living according to the Bible
E) All of these
E
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The United States wanted German industry in the western zone to be left intact because ________
A. it hoped to use Germany's economic might for its own military purposes B. that would allow Germany to again become economically independent C. that was what the Soviets had done in the eastern zone D. Truman feared the consequences of high unemployment in Germany
By the end of the 1920s, the Comintern
a. had been disbanded, after Wahhabi leaders had complained about its intrusion in Turkish domestic politics. b. had achieved its greatest, if limited, success in Asia. c. had been most successful in Islamic-Marxist areas. d. was absorbed into Aramco in 1933. e. attempted to blend Marxism, Lenin's concept of the five revolutionary stages and the writing of Mao Zedong into its "Basic Revolution Precepts Catalog."
Rome's governmental system was created to keep power in the hands of the
A) plebeians. B) Senate. C) Senate and people of Rome. D) patricians. E) wealthy plebeians and patricians.
The discovery in 2003 of the fossils of Homo floresiensis, living as recently as 12,000 years ago on the island of Flores in _______________, seemed to contradict much of what was known about human evolution.
a. The Philippines. b. The Azores. c. Indonesia. d. Polynesia.