What prevented Europeans from establishing large empires in Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
A) limits of the Navigation Acts
B) lack of government support
C) strength of Asian empires
D) weakness of popular support
C
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A) cheap immigrant labor B) African American convict labor C) efficient new machinery D) highly skilled Northerners
How did the Magna Carta inspire later documents?
A. It declared that the monarchy was subject to some limits. B. It established that citizens could dissolve an unfair government. C. It forbade the monarch from imprisoning people without cause. D. It argued that the people had a right to vote for their representatives.
The Provisional Government, which took over after the abdication of Nicholas II, failed because it
a. surrendered to Germany. b. declared itself the ruling government and refused the call for elections. c. created an army of peasants to keep order inside Russia. d. failed to react to and control the various committees that ruled Russia. e. did not respond to peasant demands for "peace, land, and bread!"
The Minoans and Mycenaeans were related to the Greeks in that they were civilizations ______.
A. in what later became Greece following the arrival of the Hellenic peoples B. whose ancestors were of the Greeks of Homer's time C. on the edge of Greek lands that served as a foil to early Greek expansion D. conquered by the Greeks as they colonized the Ionian Islands