Comparative World Civilizations Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
Comparative World Civilizations explores the major cultures and societies that have shaped human history across different regions and time periods. The course examines the political, economic, social, and religious systems of civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, and Islamic empires. Through comparative analysis, students gain insight into how diverse civilizations responded to challenges, interacted with neighbors, and contributed enduring ideas and practices to global heritage. Emphasis is placed on cross-cultural exchanges, the rise and fall of empires, and the development of institutions, beliefs, and technologies that continue to influence the modern world.
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Chapter 1: The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000 Bce
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Q1) In what period did humans inhabit most of the globe?
Answer: Paleolithic
Q2) In which of these areas was farming not usually accompanied by herding?
A) Egypt
B) North America
C) Europe
D) China
Answer: B
Q3) The earliest states all had their origins along coastlines.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Which of the following statements does NOT accurately characterize the Neanderthals?
A) They were first discovered in Germany.
B) They are ancestors to Homo sapiens.
C) They had larger brains than other hominids.
D) They are believed to have lived 200,000 to 30,000 years ago.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Early Societies of West Asia and North Africa, to 500 Bce
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Q1) Carthage was a colony founded on the North African coast by a seafaring people from West Asia known as the A) Hittites.
B) Egyptians.
C) Phoenicians.
D) Assyrians.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of these was common to the cultural traditions of Sumeria and Israel?
A) flood narratives
B) monotheism
C) polytheism
D) a religious covenant
Answer: A
Q3) Where were Ur and Uruk located?
Answer: Sumer, or southern Mesopotamia
Q4) Why didn't copper work well for creating large tools and weapons?
Answer: It was too soft.
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) A Kshatriya who fulfilled his dharma and had good karma would likely be reborn as a(n)
A) Dravidian.
B) Shudra.
C) untouchable.
D) Brahmin.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following does NOT accurately describe gender roles for women during post-Vedic India?
A) Women were expected to remain confined to the home after the death of the spouse.
B) Girls were often betrothed before the age of 10.
C) Girls often married older men upon the onset of puberty.
D) Women retained an equal role in religion.
Answer: D
Q3) Identify Shiva.
Answer: The Indian god of destruction and rebirth.
Q4) Which religion emphasized the belief that even insects have souls?
Answer: Jainism
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Q1) Which dynasty did the First Emperor rule?
A) Xia
B) Shang
C) Zhou
D) Qin
Q2) Who were the "Yellow Turbans"?
Q3) Which river is called "China's Sorrow"?
Q4) The Great Wall begun by Qin Shi Huang Di separated China from which of these?
A) Southeast Asia
B) the Gobi Desert
C) Korea
D) Tibet
Q5) Which of these is a fundamental assumption of Legalism?
A) all things are in balance
B) humans are inherently brutal and selfish
C) humans need education to flourish
D) the first principle of government is justice
Q6) Why is the Huanghe called the "Yellow River"?
Q7) What is the first known Chinese dynasty?
Q8) Evaluate the role of the eunuchs in Chinese society.
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Chapter 5: Early American Societies: Connection and
Isolation, 20,000 Bce - 1500 Ce
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Q1) Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the Pueblo Indians?
A) They were grew maize, squash and beans.
B) They were nomadic.
C) They produced woven baskets and cotton cloth.
D) They developed complex irrigation techniques.
Q2) Which region of the Western hemisphere was home to the Moche?
A) Eastern South America
B) northern Peru
C) the sub-Arctic
D) Mesoamerica
Q3) The Maya resemble the Akkadians and Aryans in what sense?
A) In creating large pyramid complexes.
B) In their linguistic roots.
C) In adopting the practices of an earlier civilization.
D) In having a state religion founded on human sacrifice.
Q4) Which of the following does NOT accurately describe Mayan society?
A) Free peasants and serfs were commoners.
B) Merchants were commoners.
C) Slavery was hereditary.
D) Priests were part of the nobility.
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Bce - 637 Ce
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Q1) Which man presided over the funeral of Darius III?
Q2) Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following does NOT apply to the Sasanians?
A) They settled in Iran after the Medes and Persians.
B) They helped the Parthians fight the Romans.
C) They tolerated Christians and Jews, but were strict Zoroastrians.
D) They replaced the Parthians and constructed their own empire.
Q4) Who replaced Philip II of Macedon as leader of the Greeks?
Q5) How did Persian rule differ from that of other conquerors?
A) The Persians were more ruthless.
B) The Persians were less harsh.
C) The Persians were less organized.
D) The Persians did not expect cooperation from subject peoples.
Q6) Persian society developed in a fertile land surrounded by rivers. A)True
B)False
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Q7) What empire revived much of the Persian Empire under Shapur I?
Q8) Which Persian king witnessed the final defeat of Persia by the Greeks?
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Chapter 7: Classical Greece and Its Expansion Into Asia,
2000-30 Bce
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Who were the helots?
Q3) Who was the first Athenian dramatist of the Classical Period?
A) Aeschylus
B) Euripides
C) Sophocles
D) Aristophanes
Q4) What explains the importance of military regimentation in Spartan life?
A) The city-state was largely made up of subject peoples.
B) Athens and Sparta were in conflict from their beginnings.
C) Persia had made Sparta the target of its aggression.
D) Sparta had made an enemy of Crete.
Q5) Which city-state created and dominated the Delian League in Greece?
Q6) Who was the goddess of wisdom?
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Q7) How did Alexander successfully rule Persia after he conquered it?
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Chapter 8: The Romans Connect the Mediterranean World,
753 Bce - 284 Ce
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Q1) The main point of territorial conflict between Rome and Carthage was control of A) Crete.
B) Greece.
C) Egypt.
D) Sicily.
Q2) Which of the following statements best summarizes the religious beliefs of the Essenes?
A) The Messiah's arrival was imminent.
B) Jews should obey Herod, their puppet king.
C) The end of the world was quickly approaching.
D) Romans and Jews who collaborated with them should be assassinated.
Q3) Which of the following was NOT an architectural innovation of the Romans?
A) concrete
B) aqueducts
C) arches
D) pillars
Q4) The Roman Republic's principal political institution was the senate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What were the problems that led to conflict within the Roman Republic?
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Chapter 9: Germanic Societies and the Emergence of the
Christian West, 100-1100 Ce
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Q1) When did Rome fall for the first time to invaders?
A) 280
B) 380
C) 410
D) 570
Q2) Evaluate the use of the term "feudalism."
Q3) What did Alaric and Stilicho have in common?
A) They were both Vandals.
B) They were both Romanized Germans.
C) They were both Visigoths.
D) They were both enemies of Rome.
Q4) Who was known as "the scourge of God"?
A) Alaric the Goth
B) Attila the Hun
C) Kertanegara
D) Arius
Q5) How did Germanic tribes usually obtain the goods they needed for their society?
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Q6) Discuss early Germanic religious beliefs and their subsequent conversion to Christianity.
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Chapter 10: The Byzantine World, 284-1240
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Q1) Which of the following was NOT one of the four Eastern patriarchs?
A) Patriarch of Constantinople
B) Patriarch of Antioch
C) Patriarch of Alexandria
D) Patriarch of Rome
Q2) Herakleios led the Byzantines in defeating the Persians.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What disease decimated the Byzantine population in the 500s?
Q4) The Kievan Russian state was first established in the late 9th century under
A) Prince Oleg
B) Prince Vladimir
C) Emperor Stanislas
D) Prince Igor
Q5) Evaluate the effects of Byzantine Christianity on Kievan society.
Q6) What changes took place to transform the eastern Roman Empire into Byzantium?
Q7) What was Justinian's main objection to German rule in Rome?
Q8) Who defeated the Bulgarians in 1018?
Q9) Why was Emperor Julian called "the Apostate"?
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Chapter 11: The Origins and Expansion of Islam, 100-750
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Q1) A Muslim caliph has political, but no religious authority.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the name of the Islamic legal code?
Q3) Which of these is indicated by the term "caliph"?
A) religious righteousness
B) succession to Muhammad
C) legal duty
D) military leadership
Q4) What was the umma created by Muhammad?
A) a group of preachers
B) the community of Islam
C) a group of disciples
D) Muslim priests
Q5) According to Muslims, who is "the messenger of God"?
Q6) Mosques do not contain portraits.
A)True
B)False
Q7) According to Muhammad, who brought Allah's message to him?
Q8) Evaluate the significance of camels in Arabia.
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Chapter 12: Religion and Diversity in the Transformation of
Southern Asia, 711-1400
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Q1) Discuss the response by Muslims to Abbasid culture.
Q2) How were the Abbasids influenced by the unrest in Persia at the time they came to power?
A) Abbasid rule was consistently harsh towards Persians and Persian culture.
B) Abbasid rule was more firmly entrenched in Arabia.
C) Persians became second-class citizens in the Abbasid empire.
D) Abbasid rulers placated their Persian subjects.
Q3) What is another name for The 1,001 Nights?
Q4) Which factors led to the Islamic conquest of Iran?
A) The Parsees formed an alliance with the Muslims because of years of persecution under Persian rule.
B) The Sasanian King Chosroes II married the granddaughter of Muhammad which led to a merger between the two groups.
C) Sasanian Persia was in a state of decline caused in part by years of warfare with Byzantium.
D) Most Iranians practiced Zoroastrianism, a peaceful religion; therefore, they refused to engage in battle with the Muslims.
Q5) To what religion is Borobodur dedicated?
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Chapter 13: Early African Societies, 1500 Bce-1500 Ce
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Q1) Who was the last publicly seen imam?
Q2) Discuss the geographical conditions that make survival in Africa difficult.
Q3) Timbuktu was the capital of what kingdom?
Q4) In Sudan, which of the following were prized as status symbols and were used in commercial and political bargaining?
A) camels
B) cattle
C) sons
D) daughters
Q5) Discuss the effects of the trans-Saharan trade on West Africa.
Q6) Which of these describes the impact of Islam on Ghana?
A) the power of the kings was fractured.
B) Ghana's control of trade routes strengthened.
C) Its society became rigidly hierarchical.
D) Ghana first emerged as a nation.
Q7) What was the major doctrine of the Almoravids?
A) The last imam would return as the Messiah.
B) Their imams were direct descendents of Ishmael.
C) Faithful Muslims should purify their own souls before jihad.
D) Muslims should practice animism to assimilate into African society.
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Chapter 14: The Evolution and Expansion of East Asian
Societies, 220-1240 Ce
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Q1) Which dynasty began the Grand Canal linking north and south China?
Q2) The Japanese simplified Chinese characters to create a phonetic alphabet called
A) kami
B) kana.
C) koroyo.
D) uji.
Q3) Where did Korea get its name?
Q4) What did the Tang call paper money?
A) silver fish
B) leaves of gold
C) flying cash
D) rice in one's hand
Q5) Who was the commander in chief of Japan's military?
Q6) Discuss Empress Wu's unlikely rise to power.
Q7) Discuss the greatest achievements of the Tang dynasty.
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A) make a pilgrimage from China to India.
B) translate Indian Buddhist text into Chinese.
C) help make Buddhism popular in southern China.
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Chapter 15: Nomadic Conquests and Eurasian
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Q1) The Seljuk Sultanate of ?R? m claimed the same political descent as which of these?
A) the Byzantine emperors
B) the Fatimid rulers of Egypt
C) the caliphs in Córdoba
D) the Ghaznavid rulers
Q2) Discuss the problems of succession that perpetually plagued the Mongol Empire.
Q3) Evaluate the mistakes made by Khubilai Khan in China.
Q4) What was the significance of the Battle of Manzikert?
A) It opened southern Asia to nomads.
B) It sidetracked the Seljuks so they never made it to Egypt.
C) It got the Turks out of Anatolia.
D) It stopped the Mongols' advance.
Q5) What region was attacked by Batu Khan?
Q6) Which city was conquered by the Mongols, thus ending the Abbasid dynasty?
Q7) Discuss the military prowess of the impressive Mongol army.
Q8) Discuss the conquest of Russia by the Mongols.
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Q9) Evaluate the reasons for the unprecedented success of the Mongols.
Q11) What pandemic was greatly facilitated by 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) Why did the North Africans intervene in the Reconquista?
A) They were Christian converts who wanted to fight the Turks.
B) Part of North Africa had ties to England and they wanted to help defeat the French.
C) They were afraid that Muslims would be expelled from Iberia.
D) They had been conquered by the Seljuk Turks and they were forced to help fight.
Q3) Discuss the Great Western Schism and evaluate its effects on European society.
Q4) Joan of Arc's inspired England to victory in the Hundred Years War.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Evaluate the unforeseen consequences of the Crusades for the Christian West.
Q6) Discuss the philosophy of humanism.
Q7) What medieval university became the center of scholasticism?
Q8) Evaluate the mistakes made by the Christians in the Crusades.
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Chapter 17: Culture and Conflict in the Great Islamic
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Q1) The ultimate goal of the Ottoman Turks was
A) control of Anatolia.
B) destroying the Sunnis.
C) Islamic expansion throughout the West.
D) conquering Southern India.
Q2) What were the origins of Timur Lenk?
A) Mongol
B) Turk
C) Persian
D) Arab
Q3) Shah Ismail's most lasting achievement was the A) unification of Sunnis and Shi'ites.
B) codification of Islamic law.
C) conquest of Constantinople.
D) proclamation of Shi'ite Islam as Persia's official religion.
Q4) Aurangzeb differed significantly from Akbar on the issue of A) Islamic expansion.
B) taxation.
C) religious toleration.
D) succession.
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Q1) Upon first sight of the Spaniards, some Aztecs believed that A) these men were coming to liberate them from the Inca.
B) they were angels from another world.
C) the legend of Quetzalcoatl's legend was coming True.
D) they were dreaming, because they had never seen white skin.
Q2) The Tolteca caste was the A) merchant caste.
B) artisan caste.
C) commoner caste.
D) slave caste.
Q3) How did Montezuma's foreign policy differ from that of his brother?
Q4) The Pochteca caste was the A) merchant caste.
B) artisan caste.
C) commoner caste.
D) slave caste.
Q5) Who was the Aztec god that was supposed to return as a light-skinned man?
Q6) How did isolation impact the Amerind response to the arrival of the Spanish?
Q7) What was the name of the special emissary sent from Cuzco to keep tabs on governors?
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Chapter 19: Global Exploration and Global Empires, 1400-1700
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Q1) Which of the following statements about Mehmed's victory at Constantinople is True?
A) It expanded Islamic power and wealth significantly.
B) It weakened existing Muslim trade networks.
C) It ruined European trade and led to a decline in commercial activity.
D) It reoriented European trade eastward.
Q2) Which of these later became the Iroquois Confederacy?
A) the Seneca
B) the League of Five Nations
C) the tribes of the lower Mississippi valley
D) the Puebloan peoples
Q3) Which of these was True of society in the Spanish and Portuguese American colonies?
A) the three main racial groups rarely mixed
B) interracial unions were common
C) mixed-race individuals were able to rise to high positions
D) peninsulares never married in the colonies
Q4) Discuss the costs and benefits of the Columbian Exchange.
Q5) How did Cabral land in Brazil during his voyage?
Q6) What were arrobas?
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Chapter 20: The West in an Age of Religious Conflict and Global Expansion, 1500-1650
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Q1) Which pope began the era of Church reform and revitalization known as the Catholic Reformation?
A) Sixtus IV
B) Innocent II
C) Alexander VI
D) Paul III
Q2) The modern country of Belgium was once part of the Spanish Netherlands.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the corruption of the Church evident prior to the Reformation.
Q4) The most important Catholic sacraments were baptism, the Eucharist and A) penance.
B) last rites.
C) matrimony.
D) ordination.
Q5) Anne Boleyn was the only wife who produced a male heir for Henry VIII. A)True
B)False
Q6) Which English monarch was married to Philip II?
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Chapter 21: The Search for Stability in East Asia, 1300-1800
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Q1) Who united Japan?
A) Hideyoshi
B) Oba Nobunga
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D) Yamamoto
Q2) Concise, seventeen-syllable poems became a stylish rage in Japan. They were known as
A) haiku.
B) jujitsu.
C) kabuki.
D) Hongwu.
Q3) Which dynasty was established by the Manchus?
A) Ming
B) Qing
C) Lu
D) Tang
Q4) Discuss China's commerce and economy during the decline of the Ming.
Q5) Evaluate the major factors that contributed to the stagnation of the Ming dynasty.
Q6) Which man carried on the work of Nurhachi after his death?
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Chapter 22: Southern Asia and the Global Shift in Wealth
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Q1) Which of these dominated Islam in Arabia in the 1700s?
A) Shi'ite orthodoxy
B) Wahhabism
C) Sunni orthodoxy
D) Sufism
Q2) The three principal British ports in India were
A) Bombay, Calcutta, and New Delhi.
B) New Delhi, Bombay, and Madras.
C) Madras, Calcutta, and New Delhi.
D) Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay.
Q3) What event marked the end of Mughals power?
A) the British capture of Bombay.
B) the Persian sack of Delhi.
C) Mughal conversion to Hinduism.
D) Mughal defeat by the nawabs.
Q4) Discuss the Muslim-Hindu connections in Indonesia.
Q5) Evaluate the significance of Indian Ocean trade to the stability and success of the Islamic Empires.
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Q6) Evaluate the reasons for the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
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Chapter 23: Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1400-1800
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Q1) Explain the Atlantic System.
Q2) Manikongo Nzinga Mbemba became known as
A) Sonni Ali.
B) King Afonso I.
C) Prester John.
D) Mansa Musa.
Q3) Angola was established as a slave-trading colony.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the basis of Mali's power?
A) control of gold mining in West Africa
B) trans-Saharan trade and connections
C) the slave trade
D) subjugation of the Kongo kingdom
Q5) What was a "maroon"?
Q6) "Manikongo" means
A) lord of Kongo.
B) conqueror of Kongo.
C) governor of Kongo.
D) man of Kongo.
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Chapter 24: Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1600-1763
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Q1) Where was Prussia located?
A) in the center of the Holy Roman Empire
B) along the Baltic Sea
C) between Austria and Hungary
D) just north of Italy
Q2) Discuss the ideology of Adam Smith represented in The Wealth of Nations.
Q3) Who wrote Principia, or The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Isaac Newton
C) Francis Bacon
D) Johannes Kepler
Q4) Evaluate the differing views of absolutism espoused by Enlightenment thinkers.
Q5) Discuss the ideology of John Locke and evaluate its influence on American history.
Q6) Who most threatened the power of the Habsburgs in the 1600s?
A) the Prussians
B) the Ottomans
C) the Holy Roman Empire
D) the Venetian navy
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Q7) Who wrote Leviathan, arguing for strong monarchies?
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Chapter 25: Russias Eurasian Empire: Convergence of East and
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Q1) Evaluate the significance of Russia's territorial growth under Peter I and Catherine II.
Q2) The Cossacks were sometimes adversaries of Russia's monarchy and at other times they were useful warriors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Manchus and Chinese were offended by Russian envoys because the Russian envoys
A) wouldn't speak Chinese.
B) wouldn't participate in Buddhist rituals.
C) destroyed Confucian texts.
D) wouldn't kowtow.
Q4) Russia was under Mongol rule in about what period
A) tenth and eleventh centuries
B) twelfth and thirteenth centuries
C) thirteenth through fifteenth centuries
D) fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Q5) Russia's "holy fools" lived in secluded caves.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: The North Atlantic Revolutions, 1750-1830
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B) clergy.
C) commoners.
D) peasants.
Q2) What was the main focus of the Continental System?
A) to unite Europe under a single democratic government
B) to isolate the United States from world affairs
C) to cut off British commerce with Europe.
D) to ensure the succession of Napoleon's son
Q3) According to John Locke, from whom do governments get their power?
A) God
B) people they rule
C) royal families
D) armies
Q4) Olympe de Gouges argued for
A) equal rights for both sexes.
B) creation of a radical democracy.
C) the king's execution.
D) limiting political liberty and equality to men.
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Q1) Which of the political ideologies of the 1800s focused on loyalty to a cultural-linguistic group?
Q2) The Paris Commune was established by A) conservatives.
B) moderate liberals.
C) extreme nationalists.
D) radical socialists.
Q3) Devotion to the creation of a unified independent state based on a common culture and language is known as A) socialism.
B) liberalism.
C) conservatism.
D) nationalism.
Q4) What gave some countries an early lead in industrialization?
Q5) A multiplicity of ethnic groups hampered nationalist unity in which of these?
A) Prussia
B) Austria
C) England
D) France
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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) The most institutionally stable of all Latin American republics was Chile.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Juan Manuel de Rosas
A) was a porteño who gained control of the Argentine government.
B) was a well-educated and benevolent ruler.
C) worked to create a balanced government in Argentina.
D) was overthrown in 1852.
Q4) Brazil adopted a three-branch system of government.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Jim Crow laws ended with the Union's victory in the Civil War.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What distinguished Brazil from other newly independent Latin American nations?
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Chapter 29: New Connections and Challenges in Eastern and
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Q1) In the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, Indonesia's commerce was controlled by the
A) British.
B) French.
C) Chinese.
D) Dutch.
Q2) The Boxer Uprising was an attempt to rid China of A) the emperor.
B) Western influence.
C) religious zealots.
D) Japanese influence.
Q3) The Meiji Restoration industrialized and modernized the nation of Japan. A)True
B)False
Q4) Until the 1800s, which were the only merchants allowed to trade in Japan?
Q5) What was Canton's merchant guild called?
Q6) Bal Gangadhar Tilak advocated Indian autonomy within the British Empire. A)True B)False
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Chapter 30: New Connections and Challenges in West Asia and
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Q1) Which European nation conquered the Congo region, leading to a scramble for Africa?
A) Britain
B) Germany
C) France
D) Belgium
Q2) The Fulani movement led by Usman dan Fodio served to A) make West Africa susceptible to Western conquest. B) unite the Sokoto Caliphate.
C) destroy the Mali Empire.
D) unite West Africa against the Western powers.
Q3) Colonial rule in Africa ultimately helped women play more prominent roles in society.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which sultan provided the Ottoman Empire with a liberal constitution?
Q5) Discuss the issues surrounding the building and control of the Suez Canal.
Q6) Quinine was used to prevent malaria.
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Q1) Which of these describes the Diplomatic Revolution of 1890-1907?
A) Germany dominated European diplomacy.
B) Six nations of Europe formed alliances in a dangerous equilibrium of power.
C) Russia grew stronger, forcing a shift in European diplomacy.
D) The disappearance of the Ottoman Empire threw European powers into conflict.
Q2) Russia defended Serbia in the Bosnian Crisis because
A) Russia claimed leadership of all Slavs.
B) the Reinsurance Treaty required Russia to act.
C) Serbia and Russia were both Catholic.
D) the czarina was Serbian.
Q3) Why was St. Petersburg renamed?
Q4) The United States entered World War I primarily because of
A) defensive alliances with Britain and France.
B) unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Note.
C) the Zimmermann Note and imperialism.
D) the Lend Lease Act.
Q5) When did the United States enter the war?
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Q6) What was the immediate trigger for World War I?
Q7) What were the two governments that emerged in Russia following the end of the monarchy?
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Chapter 32: Anxieties and Ideologies of the Interwar Years,
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Q1) Which man wrote a pessimistic piece entitled The Second Coming?
Q2) Where did Hitler expect to find Lebensraum for Germany's expanding population?
A) in lands of inferior Slavic peoples
B) in Africa
C) by moving more of the German population to cities
D) by conquering France
Q3) October 29, 1929, was known as
A) D-day.
B) Black Tuesday.
C) Armistice Day.
D) Depression Day.
Q4) Which of these trends ended Japan's move to democracy?
A) capitalism
B) militarism
C) Communism
D) Fascism
Q5) Who replaced Sun Yatsen as the leader of the Guomindang?
Q6) Which artist created the style known as cubism?
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Q7) Discuss the House of Saud, including its rise to power and enrichment due to oil.
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Q1) Who was the leader of Hitler's forces in Africa?
A) Hermann Göring
B) Joseph Goebbels
C) Erwin Rommel
D) Bernard Montgomery
Q2) Discuss Japan's strategy for creating a "New Order in East Asia."
Q3) Which of these was the question raised by the Spanish Civil War?
A) Was Spain about to become a Communist nation?
B) Was Russia willing to aid other nations that might adopt Communism?
C) Was Germany was willing to defy international opinion?
D) Would the Western democracies oppose dictators?
Q4) Who was the president of the United States when Pearl Harbor was bombed?
A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Herbert Hoover
C) Harry Truman
D) Franklin Roosevelt
Q5) Pope Pius XII did NOT know of the Nazi atrocities being perpetrated on the Jews.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the Spanish Civil War, including the involvement of Italy and Germany.
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Chapter 34: East Versus West: Cold War and Its Global Impact,
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Q2) Evaluate the effects of the Brezhnev Doctrine.
Q3) After the Cold War, the United States aggressive sought to overthrow Communism in Eastern Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Khrushchev adopted the policies of Stalin and continued his infamous purges.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Reagan believed that Gorbachev, unlike most Soviets, could be somewhat trusted.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Under which American president were post-war Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts passed?
A) Harry Truman
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Dwight Eisenhower
D) Lyndon Johnson
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Q7) Compare and contrast the Truman Doctrine with the Brezhnev Doctrine.
Q8) Discuss the rapidly changing conditions in Eastern Europe in 1989.
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Chapter 36: Reform and Revolution in Latin America,
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Q1) Who were the victims of the Tlatelolco Massacre?
A) democratically elected officials in Brazil
B) mine workers in Chile
C) student protesters in Mexico
D) striking truck drivers in Argentina
Q2) After World War I, the United States reduced their imports of copper and nitrates, hurting the economy of
A) Chile.
B) Argentina.
C) Mexico.
D) Brazil.
Q3) Evita Perón was generally hated after her death.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Tupamaros of Uruguay were an example of what feature that became part of Latin American life in the 1960s and 1970s?
A) labor uprisings
B) urban terrorism
C) Communist movements
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Q1) What was the state of civil conflict in China in 1945?
A) The Communists were the clear winners in the civil conflict.
B) The country was divided between Nationalists and Communists.
C) The Soviets had assured the victory of the Nationalists.
D) A truce ended the conflict, giving dominance to the Nationalists.
Q2) Who established the People's Republic of China?
Q3) Which nation's name means the "Land of the Pure"?
A) India
B) Pakistan
C) Vietnam
D) Myanmar
Q4) Khmer is the ethnicity to which most Cambodians belong.
A)True
B)False
Q5) On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared independence for Vietnam. In his speech, he quoted from
A) the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen.
B) Magna Carta.
C) the United States Declaration of Independence.
D) the Bible.
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Q2) De Gaulle's position regarding Algeria was that
A) France should fight to retain control over Algeria.
B) France should work to negotiate independence for Algeria.
C) improved economic conditions would keep Algeria loyal to France.
D) Algerians were responsible for their own defense.
Q3) The war against France - nicknamed "the dirty war" was in which country?
Q4) The Young Turks were the first example of Islamic modernism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the practice of apartheid in South Africa.
Q6) What was the American government's opinion of Patrice Lumumba?
Q7) Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by
A) Jewish nationalists.
B) Orthodox Jews.
C) Islamic fundamentalists.
D) Islamic modernists.
Q8) Discuss the Islamic Revival since 1970 in the Middle East.
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