The heart works like an efficient pump.

The primary role of the cardiovascular system is:

Skin comes from which germ layer?

Use the text below to answer the following question: About ten o’clock the most horrible noise began in the southern city, just on the opposite side of the city wall. It was a horde of Boxers going through their rites, burning incense, crying, “Kill the foreign devils! Kill the secondary foreign devils! (Christians). Kill! Kill! Kill!” . . . There may have been from twenty to fifty thousand voices, not all Boxers, swelling that mad tumult. After two or three hours the noise suddenly ceased. . .Our lines of defense have been extended to include all the streets bordering on this mission property . . . stray Boxers are captured and passers-by are challenged. The missionaries and Chinese who have weapons all help in guard duty. There are barbed-wire barricades at the end of each street. . . – Luella Miner—American professor in China (1900)   According to the text, what is the Imperial conflict being described?

Use the text below to answer the following question: I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives. I contend that every acre added to our territory means in the future birth to some more of the English race who otherwise would not be brought into existence. Added to this the absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply means the end of all wars, at this moment had we not lost America I believe we could have stopped the Russian-Turkish war by merely refusing money and supplies. Having these ideas what scheme could we think of to forward this object. I look into history and I read the story of the [Spanish] I see what they were able to do in a bad cause and I might say under bad leaders. . . The idea gleaming and dancing before ones eyes like a will-of-the-wisp at last frames itself into a plan. Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire. – Cecil Rhodes excerpt from Confession of Faith (1877)   According to Rhodes, what is the benefit of a country being taken over by Britain?

Base your answer to the following question on the cartoon and on your knowledge of social studies. What is the main idea of the cartoon?   

.. . . But after a long period of commercial intercourse [trade], there appear among the crowd of barbarians both good persons and bad, unevenly. Consequently there are those who smuggle opium to seduce the Chinese people and so cause the spread of the poison to all provinces. Such persons who only care to profit themselves, and disregard their harm to others, are not tolerated by the laws of heaven and are unanimously hated by human beings. His Majesty the Emperor, upon hearing of this, is in a towering rage. He has especially sent me, his commissioner, to come to Kwangtung [Guangdong Province], and together with the governor-general and governor jointly to investigate and settle this matter. . . . .   ..Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria. from Lin Zexu (Lin Tse-Hsu), Chinese Commissioner of Canton, 1839   This letter to Queen Victoria relates most directly to the outbreak of the

Speech at the Diet of Worms (April 18, 1521), Martin Luther I have composed, secondly, certain works against the papacy, wherein I have attacked such as by false doctrines, irregular lives, and scandalous examples, afflict the Christian world, and ruin the bodies and souls of men. And is not this confirmed by the grief of all who fear God? Is it not manifest that the laws and human doctrines of the popes entangle, vex, and distress the consciences of the faithful, while the crying and endless extortions of Rome engulf the property and wealth of Christendom, and more particularly of this illustrious nation? Yet it is a perpetual statute that the laws and doctrines of the pope be held erroneous and reprobate when they are contrary to the Gospel and the opinions of the church fathers. What kind of “endless extortions of Rome” did Luther argue were “engulf[ing] the property and wealth of Christendom?”

The Prince (1513) by Machiavelli It is necessary to consider another point in examining the character of these [countries]: that is, whether a prince has such power that, in case of need, he can support himself with his own resources, or whether he has always need of the assistance of others. And to make this quite clear I say that I consider those who are able to support themselves by their own resources who can, either by abundance of men or money, raise a sufficient army to join battle against any one who comes to attack them; and I consider those always to have need of others who cannot show themselves against the enemy in the field. . . A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules. . .   Based on the text, what inference can be made about the author’s opinion?

The Prince (1513) by Machiavelli It is necessary to consider another point in examining the character of these [countries]: that is, whether a prince has such power that, in case of need, he can support himself with his own resources, or whether he has always need of the assistance of others. And to make this quite clear I say that I consider those who are able to support themselves by their own resources who can, either by abundance of men or money, raise a sufficient army to join battle against any one who comes to attack them; and I consider those always to have need of others who cannot show themselves against the enemy in the field. . . A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules. . .   Which scenario given below would the author most likely agree is proof that a king was well-prepared to rule his nation?