What was the original purpose of Copernicus's study of the earth's position?
A. to help the church determine the correct date for Easter
B. to predict the next solar eclipse
C. to measure distances for the Northwest Passage
D. to verify the biblical account of the age of the universe
Answer: A
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A. Louis Blanc B. David Ricardo C. Thomas Malthus D. Friedrich Engels
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A) José Ortega y Gasset. B) Oswald Spengler. C) Sigmund Freud. D) Franz Kafka. E) Mussolini.
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A) cultivation of new crops that did not deplete the soil. B) allowing more land to lie fallow. C) cultivating potatoes. D) feeding livestock on new crops over the winter and using their manure to improve yields. E) more farmers being driven off their land and made destitute.
Experimental methods in gender research can be especially challenging because ______.
A. the independent and dependent variables are difficult to operationalize B. sex and gender identity cannot be easily or ethically manipulated C. self-report measures of gender identity are especially unreliable D. the field is more prone to bias than other social science research