Question 1
The Bessemer process
A) was patented in 1856.
B) refined iron 80 percent more cheaply.
C) produced much stronger steel.
D) produced steel more quickly.
E) All of these are correct.
Question 2
The Italian merchant whose tales of the court of Kublai Khan popularized China in Europe was
A) Christopher Columbus.
B) Amerigo Vespucci.
C) Marco Polo.
D) Leonardo Bruni.
E) John Mandeville.
Question 3
The Bessemer steel process was first developed in
A) the United States.
B) England.
C) France.
D) China.
E) Japan.
Question 4
The primary motive for European exploration during the Renaissance was
A) social, to relieve the population pressure on Europe.
B) religious, to spread the Gospel.
C) psychological, the quest for new experiences to transform a dull existence.
D) military, to provide new bases for an army.
E) economic, the desire for precious metals and new areas for trade.
Question 5
A patented telegraph and coded alphabet was developed by
A) Samuel Clemens.
B) Thomas Edison.
C) Nikola Tesla.
D) Samuel Morse.
E) George Westinghouse.
Thomas H. Huxley
In 1839 Mary Cragin, at the age of twenty-nine, became a convert to John Humphrey Noyes’s “communism
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Thomas Anshutz, Steamboat on the Ohio.
More and Less Developed Countries
The inequality of per capita emissions between the developed world and the developing world