Which two of the following statements best explain the central ideas of the text?
a.) europeans saw africa as land full of abundant resources that were available for the taking. b.) king leopold was a visionary leader that should be admired even though his tactics were not always well received by all. c.) the europeans’ only motivation for colonizing africa was to “civilize” the natives by spreading the christian faith. d.) while european colonization did irreparable harm to africa, africans looked to liberia as a beacon of hope for their future freedom. e.) european countries went to brutal lengths to secure their wealth in africa. f.) greed lead european people to use great violence because there were no strict moral rules in place.

What was the basic premise of the civil rights act if 1964

Write a line imitating the meter of the example (anapestic tetrameter.) and the beard/ on his chin/ was as white/ as the snow

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion