What was one of important result of African involvement in World War II?
a. The war polarized black Africans over whether to support the Allies or Axis powers.
b. Militarization and the spread of weaponry led to wartime rebellions against colonial overseers.
c. African colonies were unified in their resentment at being thrust into a war for the empire.
d. The promise of self-determination made in the Atlantic Charter was immediately granted to the Allies' African colonies in gratitude for their military contributions.
e. Africans who fought overseas came home with an expanded view and ideas of the outside world.
e
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The standard of living rose for all property-owning Americans in the colonies in the eighteenth century for which of the following reasons? a. Overseas demand for American exports never slowed during the course of the century. b. The passage of tax reform legislation by Parliament gave the American colonists more spendable income. c. Instead of buying expensive British imports, the colonists
bought less expensive goods manufactured andcrafted in the colonies. d. The price of British manufactured goods fell relative to the incomes of Americans.
The fossil skeleton known as Lucy is an example of what stage in early hominid development?
a. proto-human b. Homo sapiens sapiens c. Homo habilis d. Homo erectus e. australopithecines
What was one key reason why China played no role in the initial creation of the new interconnected political and economic world that developed in the mid-late 1400s?
A) Internal political opposition from mandarins to high status of naval officers in charge of the fleets pressured Chinese emperors to discontinue oceanic exploration. B) The thousands of artisans who built the ships rebelled violently against successive Chinese emperors in the mid-1400s. C) The unity of China was destroyed by civil war in the early-mid 1400s. D) China lacked the technological know-how and competent Chinese sailors to engage in significant oceanic exploration.