Edwin Holland

Nan Madol c. 700-1600 CE Basalt boulders and prismatic columns Pohnpei, Micronesia #213-megalithic architecture -political and ceremonial seat of the Saudeleur Dynasty -used to isolate the nobility of Pohnpei from the commoners Moai on platform (ahu) c. 1100-1600 CE Volcanic tuff figures on basalt base Rapa Nui (Easter Island) #124-commemorate important ancestors -around 887 moai […]

The nurse is planning discharge teaching for a client who just received a permanent pacemaker. Which topics should the nurse include? Select all that apply. 1. Avoid magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans 2. Do not place cell phones directly over the pacemaker 3. Notify airline security when travelling 4. Perform shoulder range-of-motion exercises 5. Refrain […]

question COLD WAR answer the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II question SOVIET APPROACH TO POST-WAR GERMANY answer … question US APPROACH TO POST-WAR GERMANY answer … question GEORGE KENNAN answer He was an American diplomat and ambassador best known […]

question Opium answer Drug that China asked Britain to stop trading because of addiction; Britain refused question Opium War answer Conflict between Britain and Chinese over a trading item; Britain defeated Chinese outdated navy question Treaty of Nanjing answer Ended Opium War; Britain got Hong Kong question Taiping Rebellion answer Effort to make a peaceful […]

question What is the approximate age of the Earth? answer 4.5 billion years old question Approximately when did the earth’s crust form? answer 4 billion years ago question How long ago was the first life on earth estimated to have formed? answer 3.8 billion years ago question How long ago was the first evidence of […]

question Antipsychotic that can causes parkinsonian like features. answer Phenothiazine Haloperidol Trifluoperazine fluphenazine question Mental retardation with chewed tips of fingers and portion of lower lip. Serum uric acid is increased. answer Decreased hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase question Marphans answer Fibrillin-1 question No increase in detectable serum glucose but increase in hepatic glycogen answer Glucose 6 phosphatase […]

question Louis XIV answer Called himself the Sun King, said “I am the state,” lived in the Palace at Versailles question Evangelista Torricelli answer Invented the barometer question Romanovs answer Ruled Russia during the age of absolute monarchs question Huguenots answer Protestant Christians who left France during the reign of Louis XIV, causing France’s economy […]

question Islam and Women answer Women of islamic religion had more rights including the right to divorce, be educated, consent to marriage, inherit, and equal spiritual rights question Quran answer Islamic Holy book straight from God allowing it to be unnegotiable. (Everything muslims do is not in the Quran) question Hijra answer An exodus of […]

question Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain. With the help of the Indian allies, he and his followers won. Although the Aztec confederacy put up a stiff resistance, disease, starvation, and battle brought the Tenochtitlan. down in 1521 answer Hernan Cortes question Pyramid found in ancient […]

question Assyrian Empire answer king of this empire developed the first libraries question warfare answer Assyrians were known for their mural pictures that depicted this type of scene question modern day England and parts of Africa answer Phoenicians were thought to have sailed as far as these two places in their advanced ships question “carriers […]

question Kow Tow answer A ritual prostration in which subordinates knelt before the emperor and touched their foreheads to the ground–tributary system question Xuanzang answer A Buddhist monk who disobeyed the emperor’s orders not to travel beyond Chinese borders into central Asia–his destination was India, the homeland of Buddhism; while studying the Sanskrit language, he […]

question Yang Jian answer Ambitious ruler of northern china; brought all of china under centralized imperial rule once again in the late 6th c. question Sui dynasty answer (589-618 C.E). Like the ruler of the Qin dynasty, the emperors placed enormous demands on their subjects in the course of building (restoring) a STRONG CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT. […]

question NATO answer North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries question UN answer an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security question World Bank answer a United Nations agency created […]

question Hemophilia answer Disorder that causes an inability to develop blood clots question Hormone answer Chemical produced by a gland that regulates body organs question Type 1 diabetes answer Diabetes that usually starts in childhood; requires insulin question Type 2 diabetes answer Diabetes with onset later in life; may be controlled by diet and oral […]

question the chinese boxer rebellion of 1900 was directed at answer all foreigners in china question Chester a Arthur answer supported the Pendleton act as part of civil service reform question The man appointed to supervise a major overhaul of the Armed Forces was answer Elihu root question The leader of Hawaii who was forced […]

question (T/F) The first newspaper produced in North America was Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick. answer True question (T/F) By the penny press era, the average newspaper cost eighteen cents per copy answer False question (T/F) Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World would stage events for the sole purpose of making news to cover. answer […]

question What does precedent mean? answer act or decision that sets an example for others to follow question What does cabinet mean? answer group of officials who head government departments and advise the President question What does national debt mean? answer total sum of money that a government owes to others question What is a […]

question When European clergy first read to Native Americans from the Bible about God creating the world in six days, to what were the Native Americans able to read? answer Many Native Americans concurred with the idea of a single supreme being creating the world. question “Coverture” refers to: answer a woman surrendering her legal […]

question Iberians answer The natives or inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula, where Spain and Portugal are located. question Ferdinand of Aragon answer Along with Isabella of Castile, monarch of largest Christian kingdoms in Iberia; marriage to Isabella created united Spain; responsible for reconquest of Granada, initiation of exploration of New World. question Isabella of Castile […]

question Fossil answer the remains or traces of an organism preserved from the geologic past question Index Fossil answer a fossil that is associated with a particular span of geologic time question Superposition (Law of…) answer a law that states that in any undeformed sequence of sedimentary rocks, each bed is older than the layers […]

question xionghu answer early nomadic confederacy, around same time as Han Dynasty, their raids of northern China led to the negotiation (recognized as a political equal, leader princess marriage, goods, agreed not to attack). One of the earlier nomadic groups to participate in the tribute system, good example of why the tribute system was used […]

question The Great War answer Another name for World War I, used by Europeans until the advent of World War II. question Kaiser Wilhelm II answer German emperor in World War I; his aggressive foreign policy is often blamed for starting the war. question Triple Alliance answer Military and political alliance formed before World War […]