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Most of today's suburbs were farmland during the 1940s. ... Understanding why people began moving to the suburbs is important. The migration had a huge impact on U.S. energy use (suburban living encourages driving; urban living encourages walking) and schooling (suburban schools are often superior to urban schools).
Theodor Herzl was one of the key founders of the Zionist movement, which was a nationalist movement for the Jewish people. Herzl's book "The Jewish State" urged the establishment of a nation-state specifically for the Jewish people, at a time when nationalism was the dominant mood throughout Europe. Convinced that the Jews would never truly be welcomed or assimilated within the countries of Europe, Herzl argued for establishment of their own homeland somewhere. (Eventually that "somewhere" became a movement focused on going back to the ancestral land of Israel.)
Herzl believed that the nationalism and anti-Semitism that prevailed in European countries would actually encourage those governments to help the Jews leave and form their own nation elsewhere (answer E in your list of choices).
An astrolabe is an astronomical instrument once widely used to measure stars or planets to determine latitude and time, primarily for navigational purposes. The original meaning of the word in Greek is “star-taker.” The astrolabe was probably invented by astronomers in the second century BC.
Arms and fortification.
A Mycenaean palace was surrounded with huge fortified walls made up of stones said to be so massive that only Cyclopes (legendary giants) could have moved them into place. Those fortress walls could reach over 40 feet in height and be over 20 feet thick.
The Mycenaean military had all sorts of weapons, as discovered in archaeological research as well as depicted in Mycenaean art.
Kennedy commanded PT-109 when it was rammed by a Japanese ship in 194. PT stands for Patrol Torpedo boat.
