Chinese fleets sailed west in the fifteenth century, reaching as far as ________
A) the Indian Ocean
B) southeast Asia
C) Arabia
D) Africa's east coast
D
You might also like to view...
Which fish was crucial to the life of the Northwest Indians?
A. Trout B. Bluefish C. Swordfish D. Salmon
Why was A Memoir of Solferino so successful as a publication?
a) Dunant organized it as a military history, but also included close personal descriptions of the actual conditions of battle. b) Dunant, a pacifist, wrote a rousing denunciation of all warfare. Consider This: Even after writing the memoir, Dunant remained fretful and depressed. See 8.7: Narrative: A Souvenir of Battle. c) Dunant, a trained physician, argued that soldiers were expensive to train and equip and that “industrializing” battlefield medicine would improve outcomes and save money. Consider This: Even after writing the memoir, Dunant remained fretful and depressed. See 8.7: Narrative: A Souvenir of Battle. d) Dunant was able to call in a good review as a favor from the French emperor, whom he knew personally. Consider This: Even after writing the memoir, Dunant remained fretful and depressed. See 8.7: Narrative: A Souvenir of Battle.
A disastrous move ordered by Robert E. Lee during the Civil War was:
A) his advance toward Washington, D.C. during the Seven Days' Battles. B) his decision to move into Pennsylvania to relieve the Virginians who had been in the midst of so much of the fighting. C) the Battle of Antietam, where Lee had overextended his forces into Maryland and was forced into a retreat. D) his order to break the Union line at Gettysburg with a charge involving 12,500 men-two-thirds of whom were killed, wounded, or captured. E) leading Grant on a military chase that lasted for weeks and eventually put Lee's men in trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia, for nine long, miserable months.
During the first and second centuries B.C.E., Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt maintained their power with help from
a. Carthage b. Rome c. Athens d. Phoenicia e. Persia