Author Question: Politically, Italy and Germany were similar in the fourteenth century because A) the plague had ... (Read 28 times)

mrsjacobs44 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Florence was ruled throughout most of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by the

A) grandi.
B) popolo grasso.
C) popolo minuto.
D) ciompi.
E) duce.

Question 2

The mechanical combine expedited the process of

A) planting seeds.
B) feeding cattle.
C) herding cattle.
D) binding wheat in bales.
E) building houses.

Question 3

The Italian condottieri were

A) political leaders supporting the pope.
B) bankers with branch banks throughout much of Western Europe.
C) merchants working in northern Europe.
D) reformers within the Catholic Church.
E) leaders of mercenary bands, occasionally ruling as military dictators.

Question 4

Which of the following transformed U.S. agriculture during the second half of the nineteenth century?

A) grain elevators
B) irrigation technology
C) windmill technology
D) drought-resistant seeds
E) All of these are correct.

Question 5

Politically, Italy and Germany were similar in the fourteenth century because

A) the plague had equally devastated both regions.
B) both regions failed to develop a centralized monarchical state.
C) local nobles and town governments lost much influence over reigning kings.
D) mercenary captains usurped royal authority and ruled violently.
E) both had begun to develop industrial economies.