Which of the following metals was the basis for the Roman coinage system?

A. Platinum
B. Gold
C. Silver
D. Copper
E. Lead


Answer: C

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A) Its geography and agricultural practices. B) Its trading activities. C) It may have contained a local religious shrine. D) It had the most contact with Muslim leaders. E) It used waterways to engage in long-distance trade.

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Which of the following was not typical of Roman law?

a. an individual’s family was held responsible for that person’s crime b. all people are equal before the law c. the concept of laws against the state, treason d. burden of proof lies on the accuser e. in encouraged public responsibility

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Which of the following is a characteristic of the German immigrants to the American colonies in the eighteenth century?

A. They seldom came in family groups. B. Because they belonged to a variety of Protestant sects, they added to the religious diversity of middle colonies such as Pennsylvania. C. Most were Catholics fleeing persecution at the hands of Lutherans in the German states. D. Most were exiled from their respective German states because of their radical political ideas.

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The First International

A) failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital. B) became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century. C) was rejected by Marx as a "bourgeois-dominated institution." D) served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests. E) led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848.

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