Islamic scholars invented the astrolabe which was used to determine
a. Favorable winds to sail around Africa.
b. The location of Mecca for the direction to face during prayer.
c. The number of days in the Islamic year.
d. The location of the Garden of Eden.
e. Who was a descendant of Muhammad.
b
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a. books on witchcraft b. dreams and visions c. individuals who had been tortured d. ghost sightings
Millionaire Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon's new tax policies included:
a. instituting a national sales tax on all items including food and clothing b. preserving the wartime excess profits tax in order to finance social reforms c. reducing income tax rates at the upper levels while leaving alone those at the bottom d. tax credits for working families
One cause of the Panic of 1819 was
A. decreased foreign demand for American agricultural goods. B. the announcement that year that dozens of new state banks were to be chartered. C. restrictive credit practices prior to 1819. D. new management practices within the Bank of the United States. E. an English embargo of American goods.
During Reconstruction, the Southern school system
A. initially were not segregated. B. did not allow blacks to be teachers. C. reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876. D. barely reached any children of former slaves. E. only offered primary instruction.