European monarchs sponsored exploratory voyages in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the hopes of finding a water route to __________.
a) China
b) Granada
c) Andalusia
d) Greenland
a) China
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The Peloponnesian League was
A) an anti-Sparta coalition. B) a cultural society. C) the earliest Olympic Games committee. D) a powerful network of alliances formed by Sparta. E.) an alliance of Greek city-states with the goal to control the growing power of Sparta.
Which of the following statements concerning the peace conference at Vienna following the fall of France is most accurate?
A) The allies intended to punish France severely in order to make certain that no further revolution was possible. B) Territorial adjustments reached at Vienna kept Europe fairly stable for almost half a century. C) Successful restoration of conservative monarchies and promotion of internal peace was achieved for a century. D) Poland emerged as one of the winners in the territorial realignments that followed the wars.
The term "stranger effect" refers to
a. the revulsion that peoples often have to foreigners. b. the bigotry shown by European towards native peoples. c. the power that is deferred to foreigners on account of exotic or strange qualities. d. a belief that strangers were sent by the gods.
To President Reagan, "the focus of evil in the modern world" was
a. anti-American terrorists. b. the federal bureaucracy. c. political liberalism. d. the Soviet Union. e. communist China.