Which of the following is not a place explored by Pytheas in the fourth century B.C.E.?
a. Denmark
b. Britain
c. North America
d. North Sea
e. Irish Sea
Ans: c
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several members of the U.S. Senate, the mayor of Seattle, and federal immigration authorities and judges? A) The American Legion B) Victor Berger C) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) D) The sender(s) were never discovered.
Which of the following best explains the fact that ancient Egypt left no written law codes?
A) The pharaoh was a god on earth and thus the source of all law and justice. B) Egyptian society was so unsophisticated that laws were not needed. C) Ancient Egyptians had no means of writing down their laws. D) Egyptians were expected to care for themselves without government oversight. E) Families—not the pharaoh or abstract laws—held final power.
In the first Greco-Persian War of the fifth century BCE, Queen Artemisia of the Greek city of Helicarnassus sided with whom?
a. She sided with the Greeks against the Persians. b. She sided with the Persians against the Greeks. c. She sided with Helicarnassus against Greeks and Persians. d. She sided with the Scythians against the Persians. e. She sided with the Persians against the Scythians.
Freud's work was controversial because it
a. stressed the importance of the unconscious instead of human rationality. b. argued that dreams were meaningless in understanding human nature. c. claimed there is no explanation for sexual feelings and actions. d. questioned the existence of Einstein's theory of relativity. e. claimed that there is no way to understand the unconscious and repressed memories.