Answer:
D. The Abbasid state was headed by a caliph who was theoretically the state's supreme religious and political leader.
Explanation:
Caliphs concentrated in their hands religious and political power. The Abbasid caliphs, who reproached their Umayyad predecessors for behaving like secular rulers, tried to outline their own approach to government in Islamic terms and, accordingly, to the extent that they managed, they tried to adhere to a religious orientation in politics.
Answer:
John F. Kennedy
Explanation:
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
To combat the threat of tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow fever, the United States decided to use new measures to eradicate the disease before the construction of the Panama Canal. Under the leadership of Colonel William Crawford Gorgas, many changes were made. When it was discovered that mosquitoes were the source of the disease, Gorgas who was appointed as the head of hospital and sanitation, he made sure that containers with stagnant water were removed because mosquitoes lay their eggs there. He also built domestic water systems to eliminate the need to collect rain water. Prophylactic Quinine was supplied to the people in the area and fumigation and oiling of streams were launched. Those who were sick were quarantined and workers would sleep in screened structures so that mosquitoes would not be able to bite them. These programs resulted in the successful elimination of tropical diseases in the area and the health of workers improved.
Answer: A. Many Ethnic Albanians lost their homes
Explanation:
In the Kosovo Conflict of 1998 - 1999 that saw Serbia go up against Kosovo which was a region that it claimed, hundreds of thousands of Ethnic Albanians fled the country and even though some came back, many lost their homes.
The Serbian leadership as well as many Serbs did not like that Albanians numbered so much in Kosovo because Albanians were Muslims and Serbians were Christians majorly. Kosovo to Serbia is a sacred place and so the leadership of Serbia wanted as few Albanians there as possible.
