Which of the following statements about Persian couriers is true?
a. They traveled 90 miles a day.
b. Couriers were Persian merchants who developed a vast trade network.
c. They were crucial to government communication with its vast empire.
d. The courier system stationed a man and a horse a day apart.
e. All of these choices.
e
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A) Franklin Roosevelt continuously worked against involvement. B) Congress was isolationist and thought that we should not have been involved in World War I. C) England refused to allow America to become involved, thinking that the United States would dominate the war. D) The Soviet Union planted communist spies to try to make sure America did not enter the war.
Why did the Truman administration decide to develop the hydrogen bomb?
The First Continental Congress was called in order to
a. consider ways of redressing colonial grievances against Britain. b. become a legislative body. c. write the Declaration of Independence. d. decide which of Parliament's taxes the colonies would and would not pay. e. help implement provisions of the Quebec Act.
All of the following statements about Obama's health-care reform act are true except
A) ?the website hosting the program crashed. B) ?the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law in 2012. C) ?the legislation was intended to provide health insurance coverage to millions of Americans. D) ?the proposed legislation received unprecedented nonpartisan support from Democrats and Republicans.