Relate the Crusades to exploration in the East.

Apsychologist has developed a series of personality inventories and wants to determine if they are valid. one of the scales measures perfectionism, so he asks a colleague for advice on how to establish the validity of this scale. the colleague tells him that if he were to find a sample of people with personality disorder, these people would obtain high scores on a scale that measures perfectionism.

Which two characteristics belong to mahayana buddhism. a.followers worship and offer animal sacrifice at festivals b.a followers highest aim is to attain the status of a bodhisattva c.an emphasis is placed on fulfilling sensual pleasure d.this form of buddhism is the most acient for od buddhism that exists today e.followers belive that everyone is capable of attaining enlightenment

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?