Who made up the majority of merchants and sailors operating in the southern seas?

A. local inhabitants
B. Europeans
C. conscripted Chinese
D. Arabs


Answer: A

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Based on their work at Hull House, Jane Addams and Florence Kelley articulated the core Progressive belief that

A) collective bargaining and strikes were the most effective means of obtaining rights for workers. B) the nationalization of industry would be the key to improving working-class lives. C) the environment played an important role in shaping the lives of the poor. D) people were personally responsible for the conditions in which they lived. E) religious faith could effect more change than could practical reforms.

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"[T]he most successful of the Turkic-speaking peoples who had migrated westward from the steppes to conquer sedentary agricultural societies" describes which state in western Eurasia?

a. Mughal India b. Byzantium c. Safavid Iran d. Ottoman empire e. Ming China

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What shift in views toward sexuality occurred in the mid-1800s?

A. People began seeing sexuality as something more continuous than dichotomous. B. Society began condemning same-sex acts much more harshly than previously in history. C. Explanations of sexuality began appealing to environmental rather than biological causes. D. It became common to classify people into groups based on the sex of people they desire.

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