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Which of the following is not a popular mobile operating system? Select one: a. Mountain Lion b. Windows Phone 8 c. iOS d. Android Mountain Lion System software cannot handle…

Spain The US was gifted Florida from ? . Great Plains Land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains is called ? France The US purchased the Louisiana Territory…

reason enlightened thinkers believed truth could be discovered through reason or logical thinking declaration of independence a statement of the reasons for the american colonies break with Britain, approved by…

Industrial Revolution The era when the use of power-driven machinery was devoloped. (1700’s) Origin of the Industrial Revolution Great Britain Factors of the Industrial Revolution Exploration and Colonialism, Seapower, Political…

426. Continental army officers attempting to form the Society of the Cincinnati A) were brought to trial for trying to sabotage the civil government. B) were ridiculed for their lordly…

1453 Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire 1464-1591 Empire of Songhay 1492 The Reconquista 1494 First voyage of Christopher Columbus 1497-1498 Treaty of Tordesillas 1517 Vasco de Gama’s voyage to…

When does classicl civilization appear on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea? 800 BCE When does this civilization fall? 476 CE Which was first to establish- Greeks or Romans? Greeks…

Cyclic A multi-movement composition that shares material between the movements. Program Music music that reflects more than purely the music itself. Song Cycles groups of songs that were related to…

Steppe Sparse, dry, treeless grassland Kiev Capitol of mediaeval Russia and of present day Ukraine Cyrillic Relating to the Slavic alphabet derived from the Greek and traditionally attributed to St….

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) author of The Prince (16th century); emphasized realistic discussions of how to seize and maintain power; one of most influential authors of Italian Renaissance. humanism focus on…

a plebiscite is a popular vote on national policy issues regarding the impact of the public in American national decision making, the founders wanted a system legitimated by the public…

The phalanx was a block formation of foot soldiers. By the time he died, Alexander had conquered All of the above A possible explanation for the collapse of the Minoan…

La Primavera Botticelli Birth of Venus Botticelli School of Athens, guys in middle Raphael, Plato Aristotle Venus of Villendorf fertility goddess the elements of art form the basic — of…

ibn Battuta A young Muslim scholar from Morocco who had set out to the Islamic world. tropics Equatorial region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. It…

Aegean an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey Black Sea a sea between Europe and Asia Bronze Age Civilization A civilization in the Bronze Age (est. 2800 B.C.)…

Comintern International office of communism under USSR dominance established to encourage the formation of Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere. Stalin, Joseph Successor to Lenin as head of the USSR;…

Teotihuacan A wealthy city-state ruled by a theocratic government Austronesians People who had advanced maritime craft and used them to reach New Guinea and establish societies across the Pacific and…

price support the maintenance of a price at a certain level through government intervention Alfred E. Smith Governor of New York who ran as a Democrat for the 1928 elections…

Deoxyribonucleic acid the blueprint of heredity Helsinki Accords a 1975 political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by Western European countries and the Soviet Union Hubble Space Telescope…

Pericles Great general and leader of Athens. Dominated Athenian public affairs, had a very significant reign called ‘The Age of Pericles.’ Athenian government became completely democratic. Peloponnesian Wars Provoked by…