European History Since 1500 Test Bank
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This course explores the major developments in European history from 1500 to the present, tracing the profound political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that have shaped the continent. Topics covered include the Reformation and religious conflict, the rise and fall of empires, the Enlightenment, revolutions and nation-building, industrialization, world wars, and the Cold War, culminating in the rise of the European Union and contemporary challenges. Students will analyze primary and secondary sources to better understand how historical forces and events have influenced the modern world and Europe's global role.
Recommended Textbook Voyages in World History Volume 2 3rd Edition by Valerie Hansen
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Chapter 1: Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic
World,1400 1600
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Q1) Why was Malinche crucial to Cortés in his conquest of Mexico?
A)She was married Cortés.
B)She was a former Maya noblewoman.
C)Knowing Nahuatl, Mayan, and Spanish, she acted as an interpreter.
D)She was regarded as a spiritual leader among the Nahua peoples.
E)She served as a spy for Spain.
Answer: C
Q2) Columbus believed that his trans-Atlantic voyages brought him to A)Mongolia.
B)Siam.
C)India.
D)China.
E)Japan.
Answer: E
Q3) Columbian exchange
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q4) humanism
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q5) Tenochtitlan
Answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 2: Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia,1500 1700
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Q1) The Japanese emperor
A)had the strong support of the military.
B)was a strong religious leader.
C)had power because he had the support of Ming China.
D)as a Buddhist, had great power over his people.
E)was a symbolic leader with no real power.
Answer: E
Q2) Korea failed to establish a stable political system until the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Nur Jahan took a special interest in
A)promoting trade.
B)spreading Islam.
C)establishing cultural links with Europe.
D)military technology.
E)all things African.
Answer: A
Q4) Grand Canal
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Chapter 3: Religion, Politics, and the Balance of Power in Western
Eurasia, 1500 1750
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Q1) The Ottoman attempt to expand into Europe was stopped twice when they failed to take
A)Paris.
B)Sicily.
C)Vienna.
D)Rome.
E)Spain.
Answer: C
Q2) The religious problems of Philip II involved all the following EXCEPT
A)the Spanish moriscos.
B)conflict with the papacy.
C)Dutch Calvinists.
D)English actions against the Spanish.
E)the expulsion of all remaining Iberian Muslims.
Answer: B
Q3) Richelieu attempted to increase the power of the French monarchy by increasing taxes to pay for military campaigns.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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4: Empires, Colonies, and Peoples of the Americas, 1600 1750
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Q1) The economic focal point for the English was
A)North American colonies.
B)Caribbean sugar plantations.
C)searching for a Northwest Passage.
D)investment in the slave trade.
E)the search for valuable minerals.
Q2) Which of these practices helped ease Amerindians' transition to Christianity?
A)Baptism
B)The principles of heaven and hell
C)Crucifixion of Christ
D)Worshiping saints that represented the past polytheism of Amerindian converts
E)Acknowledging the Spanish as being specially chosen by local gods
Q3) La monja alférez
Q4) The "purity of blood" requirement was based on
A)increasing numbers of marriages between Spanish settlers and Amerindians.
B)the desire to keep converted Jews from positions of power.
C)long-held traditions in the Catholic Church.
D)the rules of the repartimiento.
E)the goal of limiting the number of mixed-race children born in colonial America.
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Chapter 5: The Atlantic System: Africa, the Americas, and Europe, 1550 1807
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Q1) As world trade increased and became more complex involving various entrepreneurial ventures,the African slave trade was one of the many profit-making industries.
A)True
B)False
Q2) By the ____ century,the Atlantic Ocean had become a dense network for the exchange of people,goods,plants,animals,diseases,and ideas.
A)eighteenth
B)seventeenth
C)twentieth
D)nineteenth
E)sixteenth
Q3) Religion was the area where Africans could best resist the torment of slavery by
A)refusing to be converted into Christians.
B)transferring their African religion in total to the Americas.
C)transforming African gods into Christian saints.
D)ignoring preachers' sermons that emphasized obedience.
E)translating the Bible into various African languages.
Q4) Society of Friends (Quakers)
Q5) cod fishing
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Chapter 6: Empires in Early Modern Asia, 1650 1837
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Q1) The British acquisition of India,as a part of the British empire,led to many areas of cultural exchange.One area involved the field of law and was expressed as legal pluralism.Discuss this process.
Q2) What may have contributed to the increased practice of footbinding in China?
A)The rise of Confucian beliefs about keeping women at home
B)The increasing fears about western influence in China
C)The rise of new ideas about marriage and gender
D)The declining number of female babies born
E)The increased roles of women working at home in textile production
Q3) Manchu
Q4) To the Japanese,____ was a reference to all western knowledge and a sign of
A)Christianity; cultural intrusion
B)Dutch learning; cultural intrusion
C)Mughal fashion; progress
D)Christian missionaries; European imposition
E)Dutch learning; worldly sophistication
Q5) Maratha kingdoms
Q6) Shinto
Q7) Emperor Kangxi
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Chapter 7: European Science and the Foundations of
Modern Imperialism, 1600 1820
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Q1) Adam Smith and John Locke both believed ____.
A)that the protection of private property was a core function of government.
B)that only propertied males should be involved in government.
C)that a class system promotes exploitation of the lower classes.
D)in a strong, centralized, controlling government.
E)that economic activity was based on the division of labor.
Q2) Carl Linnaeus
Q3) Bounty
Q4) What did Newton and his followers believe about the universe?
A)The universe is not a self-functioning ordered system.
B)The universe is not perfect.
C)The universe is divinely created and only understandable to humanity through reasoning.
D)The universe is not created by God.
E)The universe is a perfect clock that needs no further interference to function well.
Q5) prime meridian
Q6) Briefly describe the rise of modern botany in the eighteenth century and explain the importance of this new field.
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Q7) Great Trigonometrical Survey
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Chapter 8: Revolutions in the West, 1750 1830
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Q1) "liberty,equality,and fraternity"
Q2) Although rebellion and revolution were rampant throughout Latin America,why did they not take hold in the Andes?
Q3) Congress of Vienna
Q4) Miguel de Hidalgo y Costilla
Q5) Declaration of Independence
Q6) José de San Martín
Q7) "No taxation without representation!"
Q8) Napoleon and the French Revolution affected both France and the world in many ways.What is NOT one of these?
A)France became a constitutional monarchy.
B)France lost its overseas empire.
C)Europe saw a surge of nationalism.
D)Nationalistic feelings spread to Egypt.
E)Instability caused by the Napoleonic invasion of Spain had ramifications in its territories in Latin America.
Q9) Toussaint L'Ouverture
Q10) zombo
Q11) Constitution of the United States of America Page 10
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Chapter 9: The Industrial Revolution and European Politics,
1765 1880
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Q1) Practical science
Q2) For whom was the Industrial Revolution's appetite for cotton a cure,rather than a blessing?
A)Textile workers in English mills
B)Peasants in India raising cotton for the global market
C)English families being paid starvation wages for working in the putting-out system
D)Slaves in North America and workers in India
E)Labor workers in Indian textile mills
Q3) Muhammad Ali
Q4) Crimean War
Q5) The Tanzimat Reforms
A)established more rigid social codes.
B)decentralized the government.
C)introduced a commercial code modeled on the West.
D)closed religious schools.
E)implemented a general assembly.
Q6) How was Darwin's concept of a struggle for existence interpreted by Social Darwinists?
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Q7) John Stuart Mill
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Chapter 10: The Challenge of Modernity in China, Japan, and India, 1800 1910
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Q1) After the fall of the Taiping,____ called for reform in China.
A)military leaders
B)nobles
C)educated Chinese
D)British officials
E)religious leaders
Q2) In his encounter with American society,what seemed to shock the traveler discussed in this chapter the most?
A)People walked on carpets with shoes on.
B)Men and women hopped around on a dance floor.
C)America did not have an enduring reverence for its ancestors.
D)His experiences were not explained in his dictionary.
E)Many customs did not appear to be logical.
Q3) The goals of the Self-Strengthening Movement pursued all of these goals EXCEPT
A)massive Christian conversions.
B)Chinese acquisition of modern technology.
C)the need for scientific knowledge.
D)a modern navy and military.
E)adherence to Confucian ethics.
Q4) Bengal Renaissance
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Chapter 11: State Building and Social Change in the
Americas, 1830 1910
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Q1) Louisiana Purchase
Q2) What was the leading agricultural product of the Canadian Plains?
A)Corn
B)Barley
C)Rice
D)Wheat
E)Sugar beets
Q3) Ghost Dance Movement
Q4) What new province(s)was/were added as the result of Canada's agricultural boom?
A)Alberta and Newfoundland
B)Yukon
C)British Columbia and Manitoba
D)Saskatchewan
E)Alberta and Saskatchewan
Q5) Sitting Bull
Q6) Discuss why the phrase Nunna daul Tsuny was used to describe the results of the Indian Removal Act.
Q7) War of the Pacific
Q8) Yucatán Rebellion Page 14
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Chapter 12: The New Imperialism in Africa and Southeast
Asia, 1830 1914
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Q1) All of these factors contributed to Ethiopia's success in retaining its independence EXCEPT
A)its victory against Italy in the Battle of Adowa.
B)its rejection of British-sponsored infrastructure projects.
C)the leadership of Menelik.
D)its Christian status and ability to broker between European powers.
E)its and well-equipped military.
Q2) According to the text,all of these regions were exploited in the global era of New Imperialism EXCEPT
A)Korea.
B)Polynesia.
C)Japan.
D)Amerindian societies.
E)Africa.
Q3) savanna region
Q4) Battle of Isandhlwana
Q5) century's first genocide
Q6) "tools of empire"
Q7) Suez Canal
Q8) New Imperialism
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Chapter 13: War, Revolution, and Global Uncertainty, 1905 1928
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Q1) The Mexican Constitution of 1917 included
A)clauses protecting workers' rights.
B)expanded powers for the Catholic Church's power in Mexico.
C)privatized the mineral sector of the economy.
D)land redistribution to poorer Mexicans.
E)the end of private property rights.
Q2) Unlike Lenin,who spoke about a global uprising of workers,Stalin's goal was simply "Socialism in One Country." How did Stalin bring Russia into the modern world after the devastation of war and revolution?
Q3) Which of the following political ideologies was implicit with Lenin?
A)Constitutional monarchy
B)Dictatorship
C)Theocracy
D)Military dictatorship
E)Democracy
Q4) How did the war impact the individual soldier on all three fronts?
Q5) Zapata's followers who were mostly landless peasants wanted to redistribute the large plantations to the landless.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Responses to Global Crisis, 1920 1939
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Q1) How did World War I change the course of Halide Edib's life?
A)After serving as a nurse during the war, she went on to establish nursing schools.
B)After witnessing the violence of war, she became a pacifist and passionate antiwar activist.
C)She served as a wartime spy and went on to serve as an intelligence officer.
D)She fled to America, where she became a leading Christian educator.
E)She became the first woman to speak at a public assembly and later became member of the Turkish parliament.
Q2) Ahimsa
Q3) Japanese nationalists argued for a change in political policies because
A)massive emigration was robbing the nation of its best brains.
B)the free market was hurting Japanese exports.
C)Japan needed to open the door to more and better-trained foreign scientists.
D)they wanted more aggressive foreign and imperial policies.
E)a decentralized government was viewed as weak.
Q4) eugenics
Q5) Spanish Civil War
Q6) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Q7) Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904?1996)
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Chapter 15: The Second World War and the Origins of the
Cold War, 1939 1949
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Q1) Winston Churchill
Q2) The wave of Axis victories before and early in the war included the A)complete collapse of the Chinese military.
B)German invasion of the Netherlands.
C)Japanese seizure of British India.
D)Battle at El Alamein.
E)capture of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
Q3) Although the majority of nations and their peoples considered the Axis powers invaders,the Axis powers were able to find collaborators who supported them for a variety of reasons.Discuss these groups or individuals.
Q4) The original source for the doctrine of containment was the A)Marshall Plan.
B)Roosevelt Memo.
C)Long Telegram.
D)Churchill Doctrine.
E)Berlin Airlift.
Q5) What were the critical factors in the end that enabled the Allies to win the war? What roles did manpower,ideology,technology,and /or geography play,for example?
Q6) Battle of Stalingrad
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Chapter 16: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1949 1975
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Q1) To guarantee its security,America destroyed the missile sites built by the Soviets in Cuba.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Referring to the feature,"Movement of Ideas Through Primary Sources: The Wretched of the Earth," explain what Fanon means when he states,"It is a question of the Third World starting a new history of Man."
Q3) Patrice Lumumba
Q4) Those in opposition to Mao used the Cultural Revolution to criticize and humiliate him.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why did China intervene in the Korean War?
A)It wanted to seize control of the warring nation.
B)It hoped to open new markets for trade there after the war.
C)It wanted to bring the war to a speedy end.
D)It feared that the U.S., which had already intervened on South Korea's behalf, would attack China, too.
E)It feared the entry of the Soviet Union into the conflict.
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Chapter 17: Toward a New World Order, 1975 2000
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Q1) This chapter highlights democratic transitions in all of these Latin American countries EXCEPT
A)Argentina.
B)Brazil.
C)Cuba.
D)Mexico.
E)Guatemala.
Q2) The chapter section titled "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" ends with the sentence: "The 'road map' has led nowhere." What does the statement mean?
Q3) Deng Xiaoping
Q4) Throughout the twentieth century,____ has been one of the most volatile areas in the world because of its location,resources,and problems with ethnic and religious rivalries.
A)Africa
B)the Middle East
C)Russia
D)Cuba
E)China
Q5) Mikhail Gorbachev
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Chapter 18: Voyage into the Twenty First Century
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Q1) Fukushima electricity plant
Q2) Research shows that there is a strong correlation between global economic growth and lower levels of inequality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Vladimir Putin
Q4) Derivatives
Q5) Weiwei has been a world traveler,living in Paris and having a home in New York,but carries citizenship in which country?
A)United States
B)China
C)France
D)Russia
E)England
Q6) The greatest disappointment of the Arab Spring was A)Cairo.
B)Iraq.
C)Syria.
D)Iran.
E)Pakistan.
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