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Course Introduction
College History Survey provides an overview of the development and evolution of higher education institutions, with a particular focus on their origins, major transformations, and key events in both Western and non-Western contexts. The course examines significant milestones in college history, including the rise of medieval universities, the impact of Enlightenment thought on educational reforms, the expansion of higher education in the modern era, and the role of social, political, and economic forces in shaping contemporary colleges. Through primary sources, scholarly articles, and class discussions, students will gain a critical understanding of the historical foundations of todays colleges and the ongoing challenges facing higher education.
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Connections A World History Combined 2nd Edition by Edward H. Judge
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Chapter 1: The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000 Bce
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Q1) Which of these was NOT an innovation of the Paleolithic period?
A) farming
B) hunting in groups
C) communication
D) social groups
Answer: A
Q2) By the end of the Paleolithic period, there were human societies in almost every region of the world that was fit for human habitation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Why did farming lead to larger populations?
A) Farming provides a more varied diet than hunting and gathering.
B) A sedentary lifestyle was healthier.
C) Farming produces more food per acre than hunting and gathering.
D) Farming led to the abandonment of hunting, which was inherently dangerous.
Answer: C
Q4) What is another name for the Paleolithic period?
Answer: the Old Stone Age
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Q1) Who were the "New Babylonians"?
Answer: Chaldeans
Q2) Which of the following civilizations controlled their conquered enemies by torture and terrorization?
A) Chaldeans
B) Persians
C) Sumerians
D) Assyrians
Answer: D
Q3) Where were Ur and Uruk located?
Answer: Sumer, or southern Mesopotamia
Q4) Which of these had the greatest cultural impact on Nubia?
A) Egypt
B) Syria
C) the Hyksos
D) the Amorites
Answer: A
Q5) Which people wrote on papyrus?
Answer: Egyptians
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Chapter 3: Societies and Beliefs of Early India, to 500 Ce
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Q1) Siddhartha tried to live a life of strict ahimsa and self-denial. What conclusion did he draw about such a lifestyle?
A) That self-denial was the only True way to end suffering.
B) That extreme self-denial was no more fulfilling than a life of indulgence.
C) That True satisfaction came from allowing oneself to experience earthly pleasures.
D) That the Hindu priests were suffering needlessly.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements about Buddhism is NOT True?
A) Buddhists believe in following the Eightfold Path.
B) Buddhists are monotheistic.
C) Buddhists follow the teachings of Siddhartha.
D) Buddhists believe in living a righteous, peaceful life.
Answer: B
Q3) What is the major source for information about Aryan India?
A) the Vedas
B) archaeological remains
C) Harappan cities
D) legal texts
Answer: A
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Q1) Which of the following was the final, and most important, part of the dynastic cycle?
A) the conquest of China by a strong ruler
B) the passing of the crown to the ruler's heir
C) the corruption of the dynasty
D) the challenge for power by a strong rival
Q2) The Qin dynasty relied on Confucianism to build a stable society.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who was King Wu?
A) the leader of the Shang
B) the leader of the Zhou
C) the leader of the Han
D) the leader of the Qin
Q4) Which man is credited with the overthrow of the Shang dynasty?
A) Wang Mang
B) Duke of Zhou
C) King Wu
D) Wu Di
Q5) Why was farming so successful in the northern part of China?
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Chapter 5: Early American Societies: Connection and
Isolation, 20,000 Bce - 1500 Ce
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Q1) What is the significance of the archeological findings at Monte Verde?
A) The findings challenge earlier scholarship regarding the time period in which humans entered South America.
B) The findings challenge earlier scholarship regarding religious practices among Amerinds.
C) The findings challenge earlier scholarship regarding the arrival of Europeans in the Western hemisphere.
D) The findings challenge earlier scholarship regarding the writing system of the Maya.
Q2) Why were the Teotihuacanos dependent on obsidian?
Q3) When the first Spanish invaders entered central Mexico, many Amerinds showed great reverence to them because they
A) had just experienced a powerful earthquake and they believed that the gods had sent these messengers from heaven to help them.
B) hoped that the Spanish would help them defeat the Toltecs.
C) were experiencing a great famine, and the Spanish brought plenty of food.
D) believed that this was a fulfillment of Quetzalcoatl's prophecy.
Q4) Discuss the unique problems facing the Chavín Empire.
Q5) Discuss the Mayan beliefs regarding the cosmos.
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Bce - 637 Ce
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Q1) Who were the satraps?
Q2) Evaluate the role of the satrap in the Persian Empire.
Q3) The single god worshiped by Zoroastrians is called
A) Ahura Mazda.
B) Ahriman.
C) Zoroaster.
D) Avesta.
Q4) Which people conquered the Seleucid kingdom and ruled in a manner similar to the Persians?
A) Macedonians
B) Ionians
C) Parthians
D) Romans
Q5) The focus of Zoroastrianism is on the conflict between good and evil.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Which Persian king witnessed the final defeat of Persia by the Greeks?
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Q7) Who succeeded Cyrus the Great?
Q8) Who won the Battle of Marathon?
Q9) Discuss the influence of Zoroastrianism on other monotheistic religions.
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Chapter 7: Classical Greece and Its Expansion Into Asia,
2000-30 Bce
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Q1) Which man discovered the remains of the Mycenaean civilization?
A) Herodotus
B) Arthur Evans
C) Heinrich Schliemann
D) Pericles
Q2) Which man wrote the first legal code in Greece?
Q3) Slavery was common in Greece, as was the case in most of the ancient world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The world's first historical thesis statement centered on the subject of the cause of A) the Persian Wars.
B) Alexander's eastern campaign.
C) the fall of Persia.
D) the Peloponnesian War.
Q5) Evaluate the role of religion in Greek society.
Q6) What name means "The Scattered"?
Q7) Hellenistic culture was purely Greek, with no eastern elements.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Romans Connect the Mediterranean World,
753 Bce - 284 Ce
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Q1) Rome's victory over Carthage ensured the spreading of ideology such as equality for all citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What happened on the Ides of March, 44 B.C.E.?
A) the battle of Actium
B) the suicide of Antony
C) the formation of the Second Triumvirate
D) the murder of Caesar
Q3) Which modern unit of measure derives from counting the steps of Roman soldiers?
A) the mile
B) the kilometer
C) the yard
D) the degree
Q4) What were the greatest strength and weaknesses of the Roman Empire as a political system?
Q5) Who ruled Rome before the Republic was established?
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Q6) Mystery religions were opposed by most Romans. A)True
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Chapter 9: Germanic Societies and the Emergence of the
Christian West, 100-1100 Ce
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Q1) Which of these proved to be Henry IV's greatest political enemy?
A) the pope
B) the Byzantine emperor
C) the French king
D) the English king
Q2) Which of the following statements about the Great Schism is NOT True?
A) It involved a conflict between the patriarch of Constantinople and Pope Leo IX.
B) The split was unilateral, initiated by the pope.
C) It created an enduring split between Christian churches in the east and west.
D) It resulted in two separate branches of Christianity: Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
Q3) Until the Turks took Constantinople in 1453, what title did the ruler there still claim?
A) Byzantine emperor
B) King of Turkey
C) King of Byzantium
D) Roman emperor
Q4) Evaluate the reign of Charles the Great. Does he deserve to be called "the great"?
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Chapter 10: The Byzantine World, 284-1240
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Q1) Which man intervened in the Council of Nicaea?
A) Justinian
B) Justin
C) Constantine
D) Vladimir
Q2) Caesaropapism preserved the separation of church and state.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements concerning the Nicene Creed is NOT True?
A) Constantine presided over the council that drafted the creed.
B) It says that God created Jesus; therefore God is superior to Jesus.
C) It is still recited today by some Christian denominations.
D) It says that Christ is "of the same being" as God.
Q4) Which of these advanced as far as the gates of Constantinople in the 620s?
A) the Sasanian emperor
B) the Visigoths
C) Arab Muslims
D) the Mongols
Q5) Evaluate the effects of Byzantine Christianity on Kievan society.
Q6) Who captured and defeated Romanus at the battle of Manzikert in1071?
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Chapter 11: The Origins and Expansion of Islam, 100-750
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Q1) A Muslim house of prayer is called a/n
A) temple
B) mosque
C) umma
D) zakat
Q2) Shi'ites consider themselves to be "the party of ____"
A) the Umayyads.
B) Ali.
C) Muawiya.
D) Uthman.
Q3) The Islamic legal code is known as the A) jihad.
B) minaret.
C) mosque.
D) Shari`ah.
Q4) Evaluate the role of women as dictated by the Shari`ah.
Q5) Discuss ways in which the Islamic Empire differed from other great empires such as China, Persia, and Rome.
Q6) Discuss the conflict within Islam after the death of Muhammad.
Q7) Describe the interior of a mosque.
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Chapter 12: Religion and Diversity in the Transformation of
Southern Asia, 711-1400
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Q1) The Khmer state in Cambodia was Muslim.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The major emphasis of Sufism was
A) rejection of Shi'ite practices.
B) unity against Hindus.
C) rejection of worldly pleasures.
D) repressing secularism.
Q3) Compare and contrast Sufism and Islamic conservatism.
Q4) Ibn Rushd and Moses Maimonides left Spain because
A) they were trying to lead a revolution against the government.
B) they refused to adopt Islam.
C) the religiously conservative government was suspicious of intellectual pursuits.
D) the government attempted to purge Spain of all Muslims.
Q5) Where was Srivijaya centered?
A) Cambodia
B) Burma
C) Sumatra
D) the Malay Peninsula
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Q1) Which king formed the foundation for the state of Mali?
A) Mansa Musa
B) Ibn Rushd
C) Sundiata
D) Kumbi
Q2) Who brought the first system of writing to the Africans?
A) Nubians
B) Persians
C) Egyptians
D) Arabs
Q3) Who are the Mbuti?
Q4) Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the Berbers?
A) They were fishermen and farmers.
B) They engaged in trade.
C) They adopted the Persian language and culture.
D) They were Caucasian.
Q5) What is the origin of the term "Swahili?
Q6) Evaluate Mansa Musa's legacy in Africa.
Q7) Discuss the geographical conditions that make survival in Africa difficult.
Q8) Discuss the state of Ethiopia and how it differed from the rest of Africa.
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Chapter 14: The Evolution and Expansion of East Asian
Societies, 220-1240 Ce
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Q1) The letter addressed "from the ruler of the land of the sunrise to the ruler of the land of the sunset" was actually written
A) by the Chinese emperor to the Japanese emperor.
B) by the Japanese emperor to the Vietnamese emperor.
C) by Prince Shotoku to the Chinese emperor.
D) by the Roman emperor to the Han emperor.
Q2) Which city was described by Marco Polo as the world's "finest and noblest city"?
A) Kaifeng
B) Canton
C) Hangzhou
D) Tokyo
Q3) Japan's native nature-based religion is called
A) Shinto.
B) Nara.
C) Bushido.
D) Uji.
Q4) Discuss the impact of China on Korea.
Q5) What was the high point of Japan's borrowing from China?
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Q6) Evaluate the role of the Song dynasty in Chinese history.
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Chapter 15: Nomadic Conquests and Eurasian
Connections, 1000-1400
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Q1) Farming was the main way of life for most Central Asians. A)True
B)False
Q2) The main way of life for most central Asians was A) farming.
B) military service.
C) herding.
D) commerce.
Q3) What was the goal of the "Old Man of the Mountain"?
Q4) The assassination of Nizam al-Mulk and the death of Malik Shah caused a(n) A) civil war in China.
B) succession crisis in China.
C) succession crisis in the Seljuk realm.
D) assassination of the Mongol leader.
Q5) The holy wars known as the Crusades were initially launched by
A) the Seljuks in support of the Eastern Roman Emperor.
B) the Christian West in support of the Eastern Roman Emperor.
C) Saladin in support of the Sultanate of Rum.
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D) the Kwarzam in support of Christians in Jerusalem.
Q6) What was the Pax Mongolica?
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Chapter 16: The Resurgence of the Christian West, 1050-1530
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Q1) What was the Reconquista?
A) the Christian reconquest of Iberia
B) the Muslim reconquest of the Holy Land
C) the Turkish reconquest of Anatolia
D) the Christian reconquest of the Holy Lands
Q2) Who created the breathtaking Pieta?
Q3) Medieval guilds were primarily intended to protect the interests of
A) local nobles.
B) their customers.
C) their own members.
D) apprentices.
Q4) Which of the following accurately portrays the problems of the Third Crusade?
A) The Church did not have enough money to provide adequate weaponry.
B) The Jews withdrew their support from the Crusaders due to persecution by many Christians.
C) The Crusader kings were constantly in conflict with each other.
D) The Muslims had help from the Mongols.
Q5) What term describes the Renaissance focus on classicism, secularism and individualism?
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Chapter 17: Culture and Conflict in the Great Islamic
Empires, 1071-1707
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Q1) Which of these facilitated Babur's overthrow of the Delhi sultan?
A) Hindu-Muslim divisions
B) local opposition to the sultan
C) the conquests of Genghis Khan
D) disintegration of the Mughal Empire
Q2) Discuss Suleiman's judicial policies in the Ottoman Empire.
Q3) Why did Shah Tamasp move the Safavid capital from Tabriz to Qazvin?
A) he wished to make his state more Turkish and less Persian
B) the Ottomans had briefly occupied Tabriz
C) the closing of the Silk Roads left Tabriz impoverished
D) the tomb of Hussein was in Qazvin
Q4) What were the origins of Timur Lenk?
A) Mongol
B) Turk
C) Persian
D) Arab
Q5) Discuss Islamic attempts to conquer central Europe.
Q6) Akbar could not read or write, but he became one of history's finest rulers.
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Chapter 18: The Aztec and Inca Empires, 1300-1550
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Q1) The emperor was almost always a
A) warrior.
B) female.
C) judge.
D) priest.
Q2) Who controlled the choice of emperor for the Aztecs?
A) Quetzalcoatl
B) the Tecuhtli
C) the Tlatlacotin
D) the Macehualtin
Q3) Who were the "strangers in floating mountains"?
Q4) Which Amerind empire could best be considered a melting pot?
A) Aztec
B) Maya
C) Inca
D) Toltec
Q5) According to the Inca, who was Inti?
Q6) Evaluate the centralized government of the Inca Empire.
Q7) Evaluate the role of the Sapa Inca in Andean society.
Q8) How did isolation impact the Amerind response to the arrival of the Spanish?
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Chapter 19: Global Exploration and Global Empires, 1400-1700
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Q1) The Council of the Indies did all of the following EXCEPT
A) decide which Spanish laws should be revised for the New World.
B) advise the king on everything pertaining to colonial affairs.
C) negotiate between Portuguese and Spanish colonists.
D) approve all significant expenditures.
Q2) Compare and contrast Brazil with the Spanish colonies in the Western hemisphere.
Q3) When Columbus first landed in the Caribbean on October 12, he thought he had landed off the eastern coast of
A) China.
B) Japan.
C) India.
D) Indonesia.
Q4) How did Cabral land in Brazil during his voyage?
Q5) For whom was the colony of Jamestown named?
Q6) What most distinguished the colonial nobles from commoners?
A) influence in the Catholic Church
B) ownership of great estates
C) slave ownership
D) superior education
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Chapter 20: The West in an Age of Religious Conflict and Global Expansion, 1500-1650
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Q1) Charter companies are trading companies
A) that patent a particular product.
B) protected by a government monopoly.
C) promoting free trade.
D) were owned by wealthy noblemen.
Q2) Philip II became angry with Elizabeth because of her support of the Dutch, her refusal to marry him, and her execution of Mary Stuart.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The city of Geneva became known for its strict religious regulations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why did the arrival of John Tetzel lead Martin Luther to publish the Ninety-Five Theses?
A) Tetzel supported Luther's criticism of the Church.
B) Tetzel was selling indulgences.
C) Tetzel carried orders to arrest Luther.
D) Tetzel was a notorious pluralist.
Q5) What was the practice of pluralism?
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Chapter 21: The Search for Stability in East Asia, 1300-1800
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Q1) What strategy was used by Jesuits such as Matteo Ricci in an attempt to make a good impression on the Chinese?
A) preaching that the Japanese were foreign devils
B) adopting Chinese customs
C) bringing money and medicine to the poor villages
D) teaching Western languages to Chinese children
Q2) Which Chinese leader has been compared with Genghis Khan?
A) Nurhachi
B) Kangxi
C) Li Zicheng
D) Hongwu
Q3) The Ming rulers' power was undermined by the growing influence of court
A) eunuchs.
B) Mandarins.
C) Confucians.
D) samurai.
Q4) Evaluate the major factors that contributed to the stagnation of the Ming dynasty.
Q5) Who moved the Chinese capital to Beijing?
Q6) Discuss gender roles in Japan.
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Chapter 22: Southern Asia and the Global Shift in Wealth and
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Q1) The Ottoman Empire included all of the following in 1600 EXCEPT
A) Greece.
B) Anatolia (present-day Turkey)
C) Iran.
D) Syria.
Q2) Discuss the differences in the European groups competing for power in Southeast Asia.
Q3) Southern Asia's major trading region was India's southwestern seaboard known as the
A) Pondicherry coast.
B) Hindu coast.
C) Indian coast.
D) Malabar coast.
Q4) What was the status of India after 1739?
A) India was divided into a Hindu north and Muslim south.
B) India dissolved into many small states.
C) Persia ruled India until about 1850.
D) The Mughal emperors reasserted direct control.
Q5) Discuss the Muslim-Hindu connections in Indonesia.
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Chapter 23: Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1400-1800
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Q1) Explain the Atlantic System.
Q2) Which of these explains the shape and extent of Songhai?
A) its position along the Congo River
B) its control of trade along the coast of West Africa
C) its position along the region between the Sahara and sub-Saharan Africa
D) its spread from Benin southward
Q3) Coptic Christianity was considered "Monophysite." What does that mean?
Q4) Which of the following was NOT a central commodity in the trans-Sahara trade?
A) slaves
B) silver
C) salt
D) gold
Q5) What percentage of all slaves shipped across the Atlantic from Africa went to what is now the United States?
A) almost 50 percent
B) about 10 percent
C) almost 70 percent
D) less than 5 percent
Q6) Discuss the long-lasting effects of the African slave trade.
Q7) Why were Africans slaves transported to Brazil?
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Chapter 24: Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1600-1763
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Q1) Who wielded the real power behind the throne of Louis XIII?
A) the Queen Mother
B) Louis XIV
C) the pope
D) Cardinal Richelieu
Q2) Discuss the lengthy reign of Louis XIV.
Q3) The English Parliament was reduced to about sixty members because many of its members
A) were killed in the English Civil War.
B) were Protestant.
C) were Catholic.
D) didn't favor executing the king and abolishing the monarchy.
Q4) What was Cardinal Richelieu's goal concerning the French nobility?
A) He wanted to destroy the social privileges of the nobility.
B) He hoped to eliminate all class distinctions.
C) He wanted to end the nobles' legal privileges.
D) He wanted to make the nobility to place the nation's interests above their own.
Q5) What was the major problem facing the Austrian empire in the late 1600s and after?
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Chapter 25: Russias Eurasian Empire: Convergence of East and West, 1300-1800
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Q1) Discuss Russian connections and conflicts with China.
Q2) Discuss the recommendations of the Domostroi regarding the family unit in Russia.
Q3) What was the inspiration for Catherine's Nakaz?
A) Versailles
B) the Enlightenment
C) war with Poland
D) the Pugachev rebellion
Q4) Russian rule of Siberia can be described as
A) unrelentingly harsh.
B) harsh in some ways and lenient in others.
C) indifferent.
D) reducing all its people to serfdom and slavery.
Q5) Filofei promoted the idea of Moscow as A) the center of Asian commerce.
B) the commercial hub of Rome.
C) the Third Rome.
D) the greatest European military power.
Q6) In which battle was Peter the Great humiliated by King Charles XII?
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Q7) Who began the attack on the practices of the Old Believers?
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Chapter 26: The North Atlantic Revolutions, 1750-1830
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Q1) During the French Revolution, wearing long trousers, instead of breeches, showed support for
A) the nobility.
B) the military.
C) commoners.
D) the war effort.
Q2) Evaluate the role of women in the French Revolution.
Q3) In western Pennsylvania, the French built a stronghold at A) Fort Duquesne.
B) Detroit.
C) Saint Domingue.
D) Fort Miquelon.
Q4) In 1770, all of he Townshend taxes were removed EXCEPT A) tea.
B) paint.
C) sugar.
D) glass.
Q5) Evaluate the role of colonial and British allies in the American Revolution.
Q6) Evaluate the reasons for Napoleon's rise to power and his unprecedented popularity among the French people.
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Chapter 27: Industry, Ideology, and Their Global Impact, 1700-1914
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Q1) Charles Fourier and Robert Owen formed model communities on socialist principles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did industrialization lead to imperialism?
Q3) Compare the experience of Russia and Britain in the 1800s, with reference to political and economic developments.
Q4) The plight of the peasants in Russia was greatly improved in the years following the emancipation of the serfs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) British food production increased by what factor from 1700 to 1900?
A) two
B) four
C) eight
D) twelve
Q6) Home rule for Ireland was delayed by the outbreak of the Great War.
A)True
B)False
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Q7) Why did Alexander III institute harsh, repressive measures?
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Chapter 28: Nation Building in the Americas, 1789-1914
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Q1) Which of the following is a correct statement about López de Santa Anna?
A) He was a proponent of democracy.
B) He believed in moving Mexico away from authoritarianism.
C) He was unscrupulous and powerful.
D) He created a balanced government in Mexico.
Q2) What sparked the Brazilian revolt against the monarchy?
A) the death of Pedro II
B) emancipation of Brazil's slaves
C) the oppressive rule of Princess Isabel
D) the persistence of slavery
Q3) What were the cowboys and ranchers who dominated the agrarian economy of Argentina called?
Q4) Santa Anna was Mexico's leader when the country lost half of its territory to the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Evaluate the gains made by blacks during Reconstruction.
Q6) During which years was the United States embroiled in a bitter civil war?
Q7) Which man lost half of his country in the Mexican-American War?
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Q8) What nation created s the unique poder moderador or moderative power?
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Chapter 29: New Connections and Challenges in Eastern and
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Q1) What was restored in the Meiji Restoration?
A) the role of the shogun as head of the Japanese government
B) the emperor as effective ruler of Japan
C) Chinese dominance in Japan
D) daimyo rule
Q2) Who was known as the Meiji Emperor?
A) Mutsuhito
B) Yoshida
C) Yamamoto
D) Hirohito
Q3) The Japanese eagerly embraced an open-door policy designed to promote free trade in Japan in the 1850s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What dynasty ruled China in the 1800s?
A) Ming
B) Qing
C) Zhou
D) Tang
Q5) Who trained the Indian sepoys?
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Chapter 30: New Connections and Challenges in West Asia and
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Q1) What were the goals of the Tanzimat reforms?
A) repeal of Selim III's reforms
B) enforcement of the Shari`ah
C) Westernization and modernization
D) eradication of Western influences
Q2) Which sultan provided the Ottoman Empire with a liberal constitution?
Q3) "Diamond fever" brought thousands of outsiders into
A) South Africa.
B) Togoland.
C) Tanzania.
D) East Africa.
Q4) What was the impact of the Tanzimat reforms in West Asia and North Africa?
A) Growing feelings of a common cause united the Ottoman Empire.
B) Anti-Turkish sentiment grew along with desire for autonomy.
C) Anti-Western feelings combined with pro-Turkish unity.
D) A sense of shared Muslim Arab culture strengthened the Ottoman Empire.
Q5) Who was the Muslim mystic that inspired resistance to the British in Egypt and the Sudan?
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Q6) Compare and contract racial attitudes between the British and Dutch in South Africa.
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Chapter 31: The Great War and the Russian Revolutions, 1890-1918
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A) Alexander II
B) Lenin
C) Stalin
D) Nicholas II
Q2) What was the name of Wilson's proposed plan for peace following World War I?
A) Paris Initiative
B) Armageddon Plan
C) Fourteen Points
D) New Deal
Q3) Germany's two-front war strategy involved
A) a quick defeat of Russia before turning to France.
B) a quick defeat of France before turning to Russia.
C) an equal effort on both fronts.
D) war in the west and diplomacy in the east.
Q4) Discuss the Russian Revolution that caused Russia to withdraw from World War I.
Q5) The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk took Russia out of the war.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 32: Anxieties and Ideologies of the Interwar Years, 1918-1939
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Q1) "Africa for the Africans" was a movement designed to A) end European rule in Africa.
B) end monarchy in Africa.
C) end slavery around the world.
D) forgive the debt of Africans worldwide.
Q2) Pablo Picasso embraced an artistic style known as A) realism.
B) cubism.
C) surrealism.
D) idealism.
Q3) The term fascism was a reference to a symbol of power used by the ancient A) a Greeks.
B) Etruscans.
C) Romans.
D) Germans.
Q4) Discuss the conflict between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong.
Q5) The Weimar Republic responded to its fiscal crisis by printing more paper money. A)True B)False
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Chapter 33: World War Ii and the Holocaust, 1933-1945
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B) the Paris peace conference.
C) the Munich Conference.
D) the D-Day invasion.
Q2) The Rape of Nanjing caused global condemnation against A) China.
B) Japan.
C) Germany.
D) France.
Q3) The British won the battle of Britain largely due to A) Germany's lack of fuel.
B) U.S. intervention.
C) the British invention of radar.
D) Hitler turning his attention to an invasion of Greece.
Q4) Discuss America's use of nuclear weapons to end WWII.
Q5) Discuss Japan's strategy for creating a "New Order in East Asia."
Q6) After WW II, the League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 34: East Versus West: Cold War and Its Global
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Q1) Stalin did not know that Americans had developed nuclear weapons until they were unleashed on Japan.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Evaluate the effects of the Brezhnev Doctrine.
Q3) Which of these was an original member of the Common Market?
A) Spain
B) France
C) Portugal
D) Greece
Q4) In which Soviet satellite did Alexander Dub ek unsuccessfully introduce "socialism with a human face" in 1968?
A) Poland
B) East Germany
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Hungary
Q5) Who followed Truman as president of the United States?
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Q6) Discuss the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
Q7) According to Ronald Reagan, what was the "evil empire"?
Q8) Who coined the term "containment" in his article signed by "Mr. X"?
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Chapter 36: Reform and Revolution in Latin America,
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Q2) Descamisados were
A) Latin American communists.
B) manual laborers in Argentina.
C) Brazilian gangs.
D) Chilean gangs.
Q3) Which two Latin American nations played the most significant roles in World War II?
A) Chile and Argentina
B) Mexico and Brazil
C) Chile and Brazil
D) Argentina and Brazil
Q4) Who was the influential Argentinean writer who was fired from his government job by Juan Perón?
A) Isabel Allende
B) Pablo Neruda
C) Jorge Luís Borges
D) Gabriel García Márquez
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Q5) Why was Brazil's rubber market devastated in the 1920s?
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A) free market agriculture.
B) industrialization.
C) democratic reforms.
D) a move towards capitalism.
Q2) What change in policy was introduced in South Korea by Kim Dae-jung?
A) opening of friendly relations with the United States
B) overtures to North Korea
C) open conflict with Japan
D) suppression of civil liberties
Q3) Vietnam was reunified with a communist victory in A) 1975.
B) 1987.
C) 1989.
D) 1998.
Q4) Who ruled South Korea following the Korean War?
Q5) Discuss the Chinese Civil War.
Q6) Discuss the political career of Mao Zedong.
Q7) Discuss the government of Indira Gandhi including both strengths and weaknesses.
Q8) Discuss the conflicts centered on the Kashmir region.
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Chapter 37: Post-Colonial Challenges in Africa and the
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A) the Shah of Iran
B) the Ayatollah Khomeini
C) King Abdullah
D) King Hussein
Q2) Discuss the Islamic Revival since 1970 in the Middle East.
Q3) The Balfour Declaration espoused intent to create a Jewish homeland regardless of Arab wishes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most powerful Arab nation following WWII was
A) Iran.
B) Iraq.
C) Kuwait.
D) Egypt.
Q5) Discuss the main Muslim responses to the challenges of Western dominance and the permanent Israeli presence.
Q6) Israel was defeated by Arab armies in its war for independence.
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