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King Henry VIII started the English Protestant Reformation by 

The encomiendas granted by the Spanish crown in the sixteenth century consisted of 

Chinampas.pngA type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular rafts of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico is known as_____________. 

John Calvin and Calvinist theologians of the 1500s stressed which of the following ideas?

The conquistador responsible for the conquest of Atahualpa and the Inca Empire in South America was 

Identify the speaker: “[H]earing shee was at Branford with divers of my friends, I went to see her: After a modest salutation, without any word, she turned about, obscured her face, as not seeming well contented; and in that humour her husband, with divers others, we all left her two or three houres. … But not long after, she began to talke, and remembred mee well what courtesies she had done….” –Generall Historie of Virginia, 1624

On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus, his men, and his ships reached

“The Great Awakening provided a language of individualism, reinforced in print culture, which reappeared in the call for independence. While prerevolutionary America had profoundly oligarchical qualities, the groundwork was laid for a more republican society. However, society did not transform easily overnight. It would take intense, often physical, conflict to change colonial life.” _________________________was a theologian who shared the faith of the early Puritan settlers. In particular, he believed in the idea of predestination, in which God had long ago decided who was damned and who was saved. With a missionary zeal, he preached against worldly sins and called for his congregation to look inward for signs of God’s saving grace. His most famous sermon was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

The first phase of the Protestant Reformation in the early 1500s had its greatest success by commencing in which of the following countries, due to Martin Luther posting the 95 theses in a church door?

A 60-year-old woman presents to the emergency room with 11 hours of chest pain. Her history is notable for hypertension, diabetes, and a hysterectomy a year ago. In the emergency department, her blood pressure is 145/90 mm Hg and heart rate is 92 beats/min. Her lungs are clear. An electrocardiogram shows 2-mm ST-segment elevations leads V1 – V4. Which of the following is true?