The Crusades were in part designed to
A. rescue captive Christians in the Middle East.
B. wrest control of Jerusalem from Muslims.
C. clear a path for commerce between the east and west.
D. eliminate Islam from the earth.
Answer: B
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Liu Bang, formerly a low-ranking official in the Qin dynasty, founded the Han dynasty when he
a. Married into the Zhou dynasty. b. Rebelled against the second Qin emperor. c. Became a Confucian master. d. Conquered Manchuria. e. Replaced the meritocracy with an aristocracy.
The triumvirate of Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey ruled for 10 years before _____.
a. Caesar disbanded his legions in Gaul b. Caesar and Pompey clashed and went to war c. Crassus demanded that Caesar not cross the Rubicon d. The senate appointed Pompey dictator
The ________ movement began in the 1920s with the purpose of restraining the sale and use of alcohol.
A. nativist B. suffrage C. settlement house D. temperance
The rulings of the Supreme Court inDred Scott v. Sanford (1857), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), and Korematsu v. United States (1944) all demonstrate that the Supreme Court has...
A. continued to extend voting rights to minorities B. protected itself from internal dissent C. sometimes failed to protect the rights of minorities D. often imposed restrictions on free speech during wartime