When Ibn Battuta used the term "Zinj" he was referring to
a. storytellers.
b. black Africans.
c. Sufi mystics.
d. Bantu merchants.
e. slave traders.
b
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a. law and order. b. states' rights. c. strict construction of the Constitution. d. popular democracy. e. a weak military.
What was the Cheka?
a. The Soviet organization of war relief efforts. b. A Russian-made machine gun. c. A ship sunk by German U-boats in 1916. d. The secret police to enforce discipline by the Soviets. e. The body of representative government in Russia prior to the Bolshevik Revolution.
Which statement best describes the Eisenhower Administration's role in the civil rights movement?
a. Eisenhower himself pressured courts to apply Brown v. Board of Education as broadly as possible. b. Vice President Richard Nixon called for a law that would make the federal government responsible for registering black voters. c. Attorney General Herbert Brownell drafted the 1957 Civil Rights Act that created a Civil Rights Commission. d. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles claimed that segregation laws in the United States encouraged newly emerging African states to go Communist.
Tanzimat refers to
A) establishing the ulama as the administrators of public education within the Ottoman Empire. B) the Islamic conversion of North Africa. C) a period of war in North Africa. D) a time of reform in the Ottoman Empire. E) Ottoman slavery.