True/False Quiz

Choose 'True' if the statement is true and 'False' if the statement is false.


1
The rising Sufi movement and its emphasis on piety in Islam was both the cause and the result of the narrowing of intellectual life among the Muslims.
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2
China had long emphasized internal development, amid some international isolation, while maintaining suspicion of merchant values and any policy that would unduly elevate commercial activity.
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3
Italy was the center of initial Renaissance cultural definitions because it retained more contact with Roman tradition that did the rest of Europe.
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4
Early Western colonization was based on small single-family holdings seeking to establish agricultural self-sufficiency.
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5
Unlike the civilizations of the Americas, Polynesia was not vulnerable to the importation of European diseases.
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