What was the Maghrib?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
A region of Africa consisting of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco that France considered its private domain and had occupied since the early 19th century.
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James Polk went to war with Mexico to __________
a. retaliate for the harsh Mexican treatment of Texans b. protect the southern border of the United States c. annex land in Texas, New Mexico, and California d. prevent a Mexican attempt to reacquire Texas e. distract Americans from other domestic issues
The Iberian political systems aided exploration in all the following ways EXCEPT
A) the intent to spread Catholicism. B) aristocrats regarded conquest and plunder as normal sources of income. C) the powers of the monarchs had been usurped by the merchant class. D) the intent to divert the Turkish menace. E) the monarchs? power had been expanded.
Which of the following were the major trade goods of the Mediterranean during the third and second millennia B.C.E.?
A. amber and silver B. horses and sheep C. rice and medicinal herbs D. olive oil, wine, and wheat
The Puritan theologian Cotton Mather (after advice from his slave) came to believe that smallpox could be defeated by...
A) inoculation B) electric energy C) intense prayer D) isolating the races