In England, the idea that human beings were meant to improve the world provided religious justification for __________.

A. foreign wars
B. economic improvement
C. women's rights
D. the abolitionist movement


Answer: B

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A) establishment of law and medical schools. B) adaptation of German teaching techniques to America. C) preparation of graduates for a career as ministers. D) introduction of the elective system.

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Which of the following had, by the eighteenth century, captured at least 50 percent of the slave trade?

a. France b. Britain c. Portugal d. The Netherlands e. Spain

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a. an anti-Christian purge of missionaries. b. a protest against the lack of legal rights extended to Asians under European hegemony. c. a response to local Chinese refusal to learn the British sport of boxing to replace kung fu. d. a movement of local assertion against European influences. e. none of these.

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