Foundations of World History
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Course Introduction
Foundations of World History offers a comprehensive exploration of the major themes, events, and civilizations that have shaped the human experience from ancient times through the early modern era. The course examines the emergence and development of societies across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, focusing on cultural, political, economic, and technological changes. Students will analyze key historical processes, such as the rise of empires, institution of religions, trade networks, and cultural exchanges, exploring their enduring impact on the modern world. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, historical interpretation, and the use of primary and secondary sources to understand both the commonalities and diversity of the human past.
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Chapter 1: The Foundations of Complex Societies
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Q1) The construction of light,horse-drawn war chariots and the refinement of iron metallurgy were technological innovations of the A)Egyptians.
B)Assyrians.
C)Hittites.
D)Babylonians.
E)Hyksos.
Answer: C
Q2) Evidence suggests that the Mesopotamians
A)traded extensively with peoples as far away as Anatolia,Egypt,and India.
B)lived an isolated existence and did not trade.
C)traded exclusively with the Egyptians.
D)traded extensively until the time of the Assyrians,when trade dropped to nothing.
E)traded exclusively with the Phoenicians.
Answer: A
Q3) The first alphabet was created by the Phoenicians.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations
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Q1) Osiris was the Egyptian god of the underworld.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) By spreading their language across a huge stretch of Africa,the Bantu played a role similar to that played by the
A)Indo-Europeans.
B)Mongols.
C)Xiongnu.
D)Visigoths.
E)Babylonians.
Answer: A
Q3) Meroitic writing
A)has now been completely translated.
B)expressed the general Egyptian optimism with life.
C)was introduced into India by the Indo-Europeans.
D)was a Nubian script that borrowed Egyptian hieroglyphs.
E)cannot be read because it's simply too different from its base cuneiform.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Early Societies in South and East Asia
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Q1) Varuna was the chief god of the Aryans,associated with rain and war.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Based on archaeological evidence from early Indian history,historians believe that A)Harappa and Mohenjo-daro served as economic and political centers.
B)the Harappan world was one of constant civil war.
C)the Chinese were a constant influence.
D)there was little true culture in India before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans.
E)early Indian cities remained small and unsophisticated by comparison to other ancient cities.
Answer: A
Q3) The Huang He provided both extremely fertile soil for agriculture and periodic and unpredictable destruction through major floods.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Explore the influence of the Olmecs on Mesoamerican society.What were the major foundations of Olmec civilization? How did they influence other societies?
Q2) In the Popol Vuh,humans were created from maize and water.Why would this explanation have made sense to the Maya? What did the gods want from their human creations? What were the earlier attempts?
Q3) Mochica was one of the Olmec ceremonial centers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The largest single building in Mesoamerica was the
A)Maya Temple of the Giant Jaguar.
B)Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Sun.
C)Olmec Temple of the Sun.
D)Maya Imperial Palace.
E)Olmec Temple of the Moon.
Q5) Mochica was one of the earliest Andean states that left a remarkable artistic legacy. A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the origins,development,and decline of the Lapita society.
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Chapter 5: The Empires of Persia
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Q1) Satrapies were
A)Mesopotamian kings.
B)Egyptian administrators.
C)Persian administrative and taxation districts.
D)demons of the Lydian underworld.
E)Arabian merchants.
Q2) Look at the carving of Darius on page 89.How does it reflect the hierarchy of government and the power of the Achaemenid empire under Darius? Is the location of the carving significant?
Q3) Darius picked up the idea of a standardized government-issued coinage from the A)Babylonians.
B)Egyptians.
C)Lydians.
D)Indians.
E)Chinese.
Q4) How did Cyrus manage to expand the Persian holdings so dramatically during his lifetime?
Q5) The greatest Parthian conqueror was Mithradates I.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: The Unification of China
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Q1) Who was Laozi? What is the Daoist view of virtue? How can it be used to rule a state? Relate these ideas to those of Confucius.
Q2) Chinese philosophers often spoke of which term,meaning "the way"?
A)junzi
B)li
C)ren
D)dasas
E)dao
Q3) Look at the illustration on page 109 of the terra-cotta army surrounding the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi.What could this picture tell us about the splendor of the First Emperor's reign? Can this picture also give us an insight into the workings of Qin Shihuangdi's mind?
Q4) Chinese Daoist philosophers spoke of the dao,meaning "the way." What did they mean by this word? How did they use their philosophy to attack the philosophies of others?
Q5) How did the issue of uneven distribution of wealth contribute to the collapse of the Han?
Q6) Discuss the role of the Xiongnu in the history of China during the Han.
Q7) How does Daoism contrast with Confucianism?
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Chapter 7: State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
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Q1) The Kushans in India reached their peak under A)Kanishka.
B)Chandra Gupta II.
C)Samudra Gupta.
D)Ashoka.
E)Chandragupta.
Q2) Describe the beliefs of the Charvaka sect and how they were a reflection of changes in Indian society.
Q3) Why did Buddhism eventually lose popularity in India?
Q4) The Mauryan emperor Ashoka fought his bloodiest battle against A)the Punjab.
B)Kalinga.
C)Magadha.
D)Harsha.
E)Alexander the Great.
Q5) Read the passage from Ashoka's 13<sup>th</sup> Major Rock Edict .What does Ashoka have to say about violence? What effect did Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism have on the Mauryan dynasty?
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Q6) How did the Persian conquest set the stage for the emergence of the Mauryan empire?
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Chapter 8: Mediterranean Society Under the Greeks and the Romans
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Q1) The definition of the term polis is city-state.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Spartans were constantly afraid of the prospect of an uprising by serfs known as A)helots.
B)poleis.
C)Minoans.
D)Athenians.
E)Dravidians.
Q3) Under whose leadership did Athens become the most sophisticated of the poleis?
A)Solon
B)Cleisthenes
C)Pericles
D)Pisistratus
E)Plato
Q4) Discuss the Roman concept of citizenship.Relate it to the success of Roman expansion.How does citizenship relate to the ideals of Roman character?
Q5) What part did slaves play in Athens and Sparta? How did Greek law treat slaves?
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Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads
During the Late Classical ERA
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Q1) Examine the spread of Christianity.How was it helped along by the established trade routes? How did it evolve in the later Roman period?
Q2) Zhang Qian was
A)an ambassador sent out by Han Wudi.
B)the last emperor of the Han dynasty.
C)the leader of the powerful Xiongnu tribe.
D)the greatest Han philosopher.
E)an influential Han historian.
Q3) The land route of the main silk road ran from the Han capital of ________ to the Mediterranean port of ________.
A)Chang'an;Rome
B)Beijing;Tyre
C)Nanjing;Alexandria
D)Chang'an;Antioch
E)Dunhuang;Antioch
Q4) St.Augustine tried to harmonize Christianity with Greek and Roman philosophical traditions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Christian Commonwealth of Byzantium
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Q1) Examine the split between the Roman Catholic church and Greek Orthodox church.What led to this fundamental split? How did this split influence later history?
Q2) Constantinople withstood sieges in 674-678 and 717-718 by
A)the Sasanids.
B)the Gauls.
C)the Russians.
D)the Greeks.
E)Arabic forces.
Q3) Historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to the A)European struggle between church and state.
B)split between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.
C)attempt by later Roman emperors to abolish the papacy.
D)system in which the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority.
E)bureaucratic revolution brought about by Julius Caesar.
Q4) Discuss the rise of monasticism.What role did St.Basil of Caesarea play? What were the religious and social implications of this system?
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Chapter 11: The Expansive Realm of Islam
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Q1) Arabic numbers actually had their origin in
A)India.
B)China.
C)Persia.
D)Egypt.
E)Arabia.
Q2) Examine the picture of Sufis on page 211.What are they doing? How do the many activities in the picture relate to the Sufis' belief in Islam? Are their beliefs similar to any other religious groups studied so far?
Q3) What people and institutions helped to promote and spread the values of Islam?
Q4) Examine Map 11.1,The expansion of Islam,632-733C.E.What other cultures did the Muslims encounter during their conquests? How did the rapid conquests create problems for the new Muslim empire?
Q5) How did Muhammad's background influence his beliefs and the early development of Islam?
Q6) Examine the spread of Islam.What areas were brought under Muslim control and how? How did Islam influence these areas? How did these areas influence Islam? In what ways did Islam work as a unifying force?
Q7) How did Persia,India,and Greece influence the realm of Islam?
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Chapter 12: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
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Q1) The founder of the Song dynasty was
A)Song Wudi.
B)Huang Chao.
C)Song Taizu.
D)Tang Taizong.
E)Sei Shonagon.
Q2) In relation to Chinese traditions and influences,Vietnamese women
A)were forced to accept foot binding.
B)played a more prominent role in society and the economy.
C)had far fewer rights than Chinese women.
D)were excluded from the local marketplaces.
E)wrote many more books than their Chinese counterparts did.
Q3) Chinese influence on Japan was most profound during the A)Kamakura shogunate.
B)Heian period.
C)Nara period.
D)Muromachi shogunate.
E)Tang shogunate.
Q4) Examine the rise of the early Korean and Vietnamese societies.How were the Koreans and Vietnamese influenced by China? In what ways were they different?
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Chapter 13: India and the Indian Ocean Basin
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Q1) Examine the complex religious world of India.What were the main religions and how did they interact? Was there an attempt to bring the various branches of belief together?
Q2) How did Indian agriculture improve in the postclassical era? What was the impact of these improvements on the population of the subcontinent?
Q3) In India,as elsewhere,the most effective agents of conversion to Islam were Sufi mystics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following Indian concepts did NOT become popular in the southeast Asian states influenced by India?
A)Hinduism
B)the caste system
C)literary classics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata
D)conducting official business in Sanskrit
E)the creation of established positions for administrators and bureaucrats
Q5) What factors led to the collapse of unified,imperial rule in India before and after the reign of Harsha?
Q6) When and how did Islam enter northern India?
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Chapter 14: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
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Q1) Which of the following did NOT act as a limitation on the development of central Asian societies?
A)the aridity of the climate
B)a lack of trading opportunities
C)the nomadic lifestyle of the population
D)the absence of large-scale craft production
E)the limited potential for large-scale agriculture
Q2) Explore the career of Tamerlane.Were his aspirations any different than those of his conquering predecessors? How did he influence Eurasia?
Q3) How were Persia and China influenced by Mongol conquests? How were the Mongols transformed by their contact with the Persians and Chinese?
Q4) Led by the Saljuqs,Turkish peoples began migrating into Anatolia in large numbers in the early eleventh century.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Examine the life of the Turkish nomadic tribes.How did they adjust to their environments? How did the environment limit their development? How did the environment and their nomadic lifestyle influence their intellectual world?
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Chapter 15: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) The arrival of camels slowed the pace of communication and transportation across the Sahara.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The capital of Zimbabwe was
A)Great Zimbabwe.
B)Niani.
C)Kilwa.
D)Koumbi-Saleh.
E)Gao.
Q3) In regard to gender issues in sub-Saharan Africa,
A)the position of women was essentially the same as in other societies of the time.
B)women played the dominant role in society.
C)women played a strictly subservient role.
D)women had more opportunities open to them than did their counterparts in other societies.
E)women had no opportunities and suffered more than their counterparts elsewhere.
Q4) What role did the rise and development of slavery play in sub-Saharan Africa?
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Chapter 16: Christian Western Europe During the Middle Ages
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Q1) The Dominicans and Franciscans
A)were openly criticized during the high middle ages because of their vast wealth.
B)espoused dangerous heresies during the high middle ages.
C)attacked materialism and allowed no personal possessions.
D)played a key role in financing the crusades.
E)pushed for reconciliation among Christians,Jews,and Muslims.
Q2) Hugh Capet was crowned King of France in 987
A)and immediately turned France into a powerful,centralized state.
B)and was immediately excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII.
C)and was eventually overthrown by the Holy Roman emperor.
D)but it took centuries for the French kings to build a powerful,centralized state.
E)and immediately launched an unsuccessful invasion of Spain.
Q3) Examine the intellectual world of the high middle ages.What role did the new universities play? What was the influence of the rediscovered works of Aristotle and the philosophy of St.Thomas Aquinas?
Q4) How was Europe influenced by economic expansion and increased trade during the high middle ages? Why was long-distance trade so important?
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Chapter 17: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Most Aztec human sacrifices were in honor of
A)Quetzalcóatl.
B)Tezcatlipoca.
C)Itzcóatl.
D)Huitzilopochtli.
E)Viracocha.
Q2) What are some of the notable achievements of Inca society?
Q3) Compare the social and religious structures of the Aztec and Inca empires.How might these structures help to explain their success?
Q4) Which of the societies of North America had developed settled agriculture by the fifteenth century? What kind of agriculture was typical?
Q5) The five Iroquois nations were the
A)Oneida,Onondaga,Cayuga,Seneca,and Cahokia.
B)Oneida,Pueblo,Navajo,Seneca,and Onondaga.
C)Mohawk,Oneida,Cahokia,Seneca,and Onondaga.
D)Onondaga,Mohawk,Seneca,Cayuga,and Pueblo.
E)Mohawk,Oneida,Onondaga,Cayuga,and Seneca.
Q6) What are the distinctive features of the agricultural societies to emerge in the Pacific islands before western contact?
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Chapter 18: Cross-Cultural Interactions
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Q1) Relate the humanistic thought of the Renaissance to philosophies in other societies in the world at that time.How revolutionary was the humanistic view? How does the Renaissance emphasis on the uniqueness of the individual relate to other societies' worldview?
Q2) The Nestorian priest that served as Mongol envoy to the states of Europe was Rabban Sauma.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Examine the reinvigoration of Europe in the later middle ages.How was it different from the reinvigoration of China during the same period?
Q4) As a result of the bubonic plague,the population of Europe dropped from seventy-nine million in 1300 to around ________ in 1400.
A)seventy-five million
B)sixty million
C)forty million
D)fifteen million
E)twenty-five million
Q5) How did the Ming dynasty rebuild the economy of China?
Q6) What were the social and economic outcomes of the plague?
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Chapter 19: Transoceanic Encounters and Global
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Q1) How were the English and Dutch trading companies organized and administered? How were these companies able to establish themselves in Asia?
Q2) Ferdinand Magellan established a trade route between Mexico and A)Spain.
B)Hawai`i.
C)Portugal.
D)the Canary Islands.
E)the Philippines.
Q3) What were the positive and negative demographic impacts of European contact with the New World?
Q4) In Christopher Columbus's journals,he suggested to the king and queen of Spain that they focus on converting the peoples of the Americas because "in a short time you will end up having converted to our Holy Faith a multitude of peoples and acquired large dominions and great riches." How does this brief statement express the European goals for exploration? Why did the Europeans explore?
Q5) Compare the Spanish conquest of the Philippines with the Dutch conquest of Indonesia.What kind of colony emerged in each case?
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Chapter 20: The Transformation of Europe
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Q1) Charles V did not build an administrative structure for his empire,but instead ruled each of his lands according to its own laws and customs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Society of Jesus-the Jesuits-received instruction in theology,philosophy,and the classics,and became effective missionaries.
A)True B)False
Q3) Was there a political side to the sixteenth-century reformation movements? How did it relate to the religious issues?
Q4) Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France,Spain,and England.How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states in centralizing power?
Q5) Examine Map 20.2,Europe after the Peace of Westphalia,1648.How does it compare to Map 20.1? What were the long-term implications of the Peace of Westphalia?
Q6) By the end of the sixteenth century,which European countries had become Protestant and which had remained Catholic?
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Chapter 21: New Worlds: the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) The first recorded European sighting of Australia was made by the
A)Portuguese.
B)Dutch.
C)English.
D)French.
E)Spanish.
Q2) The native population in what is now the United States stood at five million to ten million in 1492,and at ________ in 1800.
A)fifteen million
B)ten million
C)eight million
D)six million
E)six hundred thousand
Q3) Christopher Columbus and his immediate followers made the island of Cuba the base of Spanish operations in the Caribbean.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why did slavery eventually become more common than indentured servitude in the colonies?
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Chapter 22: Africa and the Atlantic World
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Q1) The Portuguese referred to Ndongo as Angola because of the word ngola,which meant
A)"gold."
B)"slave."
C)"impure."
D)"king."
E)"indigo."
Q2) Islam was most popular in sub-Saharan Africa in
A)the thinly populated rural areas of west Africa.
B)the commercial centers of west Africa and the Swahili city-states of east Africa.
C)areas that had previously had contact with Christian missionaries.
D)poor areas,where payment for conversion had the greatest appeal.
E)areas that had forsaken the traditional religions because of famine or plague.
Q3) Examine the increasing role of Islam and Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa.In what ways did these religions transform sub-Saharan Africa? What happened to the indigenous religions?
Q4) When talking about the conditions on a slave ship,Olaudah Equiano wrote,"I now wished for the last friend,death,to relieve me." Why was the middle passage so devastating? Discuss the middle passage in detail.
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Chapter 23: Tradition and Change in East Asia
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Q1) Examine the role of women during the Ming and Qing dynasties.How was foot binding representative of the changing social and gender worlds of China? Compare and contrast the situation in China to the role of women in other societies studied so far.
Q2) Why did the Qing dynasty discourage Chinese travel abroad and try to control contacts with foreigners? What was the impact of this policy?
Q3) Hongwu's new dynasty was called "Ming," which meant A)"all-powerful."
B)"mandate of heaven."
C)"center of the universe."
D)"son of heaven."
E)"brilliant."
Q4) Examine the decision to close Japan to foreign trade.What events inspired this decision? How successful was this attempt? What were its results?
Q5) Confucian tradition ranked three broad classes of commoners below the gentry: peasants,artisans,and merchants.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What factors led to rapid population growth in China?
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Q1) Compare Akbar's policies with those of Aurangzeb.
Q2) Süleyman the Magnificent called on Sinan Pasha to A)reorganize the Ottoman navy and conquer the eastern Mediterranean.
B)create the religious complex known as the Süleymaniye.
C)defeat the growing threat of the Safavids.
D)launch an invasion of Isfahan.
E)help him create a sophisticated law code.
Q3) How did the Islamic empires lose their leadership in technology? Why did they allow cultural conservatism to convince them of their own superiority?
Q4) In the three hundred years after 1500,the population of India grew from 105 million to A)115 million.
B)125 million.
C)190 million.
D)230 million.
E)285 million.
Q5) Examine the concept of society held by the Islamic states.How were they influenced by their steppe traditions and the new areas that they conquered?
Q6) By what steps did Shah Abbas achieve a strong and unified Safavid state?
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Chapter 25: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
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Q1) Many thinkers of the Enlightenment affirmed the legal and social privileges enjoyed by the aristocrats of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was
A)Mary Astell.
B)John Stuart Mill.
C)Mary Wollstonecraft.
D)Olympe de Gouges.
E)Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Q3) The Congress of Vienna created a diplomatic order based on balance of power under the guidance of A)Napoleon.
B)Otto von Bismarck.
C)Edmund Burke.
D)Klemens von Metternich.
E)Theodore Herzl.
Q4) What events led to the slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue (Haiti)? Why was this rebellion successful when so many other slave revolts failed?
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Chapter 26: The Making of Industrial Society
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Q1) Discuss the population explosion,urbanization,and other demographic factors of the industrial revolution.Discuss the growth of huge industrial cities during the nineteenth century.What would the life of the new urban dweller be like? What would be the implications of this existence?
Q2) According to the Manifesto of the Communist Party,all of human history had been a history of
A)class struggle.
B)the quest for religious self-awareness interfering with the development of the peasantry.
C)the search for equality.
D)the search for freedom.
E)industrial integration.
Q3) The key to social reform in Russia was
A)the establishment of universal suffrage.
B)the emancipation of the serfs.
C)possessing the leading educational system in Europe.
D)the final attainment of equality for women.
E)the abolition of slavery.
Q4) Explain how Great Britain took such a commanding lead in the industrial revolution.
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Chapter 27: The Americas in the Age of Independence
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Q1) New France passed into British control after the A)War of 1812.
B)Thirty Years' War.
C)Seven Years' War.
D)American revolution.
E)War of the Spanish Succession.
Q2) Simón Bolívar succinctly summed up the developing political situation in Latin America when he said
A)"The age of uncontested democracy has begun."
B)"I fear peace more than war."
C)"The key to true democracy is expanding the franchise to include every man."
D)"Unity through Gran Colombia is the future for Latin America."
E)"The behemoth to the north can only be constrained by a powerful Latin American confederation."
Q3) Examine the economic development of the Americas in the nineteenth century.Were there any similarities in the different approaches? Why did some areas end up wealthier than others? Which of the areas would be in the best shape to compete in the twentieth century?
Q4) What have been the central ethnic conflicts in Canadian history?
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Chapter 28: The Building of Global Empires
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Q1) The most significant territorial loss for the Ottomans was
A)Egypt.
B)Serbia.
C)Istanbul.
D)Greece.
E)Anatolia.
Q2) The battle of Omdurman
A)ensured British domination over New Zealand.
B)allowed France to establish a colony in Vietnam.
C)led to the collapse of the Ottoman empire.
D)opened the door for British colonial rule in Sudan.
E)doomed Russia to defeat in the Russo-Japanese War.
Q3) Examine imperialism in Africa.What were the major goals of the Europeans? Why was Africa treated differently than other colonies? How did the carving up of Africa lead to tension among the European nations?
Q4) Examine the racist beliefs that played such a central role in European imperialism.How did racism justify imperialism and also inspire it?
Q5) Who were the major players in the "scramble for Africa"? What was the principal objective of this land-grab?
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Chapter 29: The Great War: The World in Upheaval
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Q1) The February Revolution of 1917
A)swept Lenin into power in Russia and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.
B)resulted in the long-anticipated collapse of the Ottoman empire.
C)forced France out of the war.
D)led to the establishment of a provisional government in Russia that dismantled many repressive parts of the tsarist state.
E)erupted after the assassination of Nicholas II.
Q2) The Japanese entered World War I through an action designed to
A)express anger over German atrocities against Chinese civilians.
B)preserve the long-standing Franco-Japanese alliance.
C)prevent America from entering China.
D)acquire German colonies in Asia.
E)end Austrian colonial aspirations in the Pacific.
Q3) What were the major consequences of World War I? How was the world transformed by this bloody confrontation?
Q4) The official factor in the United States' decision to enter the war was Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 30: An Age of Anxiety
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Q1) Examine the causes and implications of the Great Depression.Why was the depression so widespread and so devastating? How did different countries respond to the depression? What would be the long-term consequences of the depression?
Q2) A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by
A)virulent new strains of disease.
B)the success of several new communist regimes.
C)overproduction and falling prices.
D)the collapse of the cotton market in the southern United States.
E)dangerous underproduction.
Q3) One of the nagging weaknesses of the global economy in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture,the result of overproduction and falling prices.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Examine the transformation of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin.What were the main ideas and programs of the two leaders? How did they influence Russian history?
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Chapter 31: Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa,
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Q1) Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of A)Pakistan.
B)Iraq.
C)Palestine.
D)Saudi Arabia.
E)Indonesia.
Q2) U.S.policies toward Latin America included
A)the New Deal.
B)"dollar diplomacy."
C)the Good Neighbor Policy.
D)the Latin American Assistance Plan.
E)"dollar diplomacy" and the Good Neighbor Policy.
Q3) What was the status of India within the British empire after World War I? What were some of the sources of tension in India at this time?
Q4) Examine Map 31.1,The struggle for control in China,1927-1936.What was the role of the Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang in the development of Chinese nationalism? What role did the Long March play in the career of Mao Zedong?
Q5) What factors caused Africans to challenge European authority during the Great War?
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Chapter 32: New Conflagrations: World War II
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Q1) In 1933,Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after it condemned China for its conquest of Manchuria.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Normandy invasion
A)failed,and Hitler was not able to conquer Britain.
B)allowed Hitler to surprise the French and enter Paris with relative ease.
C)failed because of stiffening Russian resistance and the onset of winter.
D)freed Italy.
E)overwhelmed the Germans and led to the collapse of the German western front.
Q3) Note the specific steps taken by Italy and Germany in the 1930s that were in direct violation of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Q4) Why didn't Britain and France object when Hitler and Mussolini violated the peace treaty? What were the consequences of their policy of appeasement?
Q5) Japan,Germany,and Italy-known as the Axis powers-squared off against the Allied powers of France,Great Britain,the Soviet Union,China,and the United States.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 33: The Cold War and Decolonization
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A)True
B)False
Q2) The leader of the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence,and the most important nationalist leader in Africa,was
A)Kwame Nkrumah.
B)Jomo Kenyatta.
C)Marcus Garvey.
D)Bernard Dadié.
E)Frantz Fanon.
Q3) The "velvet revolution" brought change to
A)Czechoslovakia.
B)Poland.
C)Romania.
D)Bulgaria.
E)East Germany.
Q4) Look at the picture of Berliners climbing the Berlin Wall on page 653.How did the Berlin Wall symbolize the entire cold war?
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Chapter 34: A World Without Borders
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Q1) Medical experts first identified AIDS in 1981 among members of which group(s)?
A)intravenous drug users
B)homosexual men
C)sub-Saharan African families
D)both intravenous drug users and homosexual men
E)heterosexual women
Q2) It is estimated that by 2050 the population of the earth will stabilize at around
A)4.2 billion.
B)5.7 billion.
C)9.2 billion.
D)15.4 billion.
E)18.9 billion.
Q3) Discuss the exploding economies of Asia in the last quarter of the twentieth century.Why was Japan so successful? Examine the rise of the "four little tigers."
Q4) Discuss China's one-child-family rule.What would drive the Chinese to take such a drastic step? Have there been any unexpected problems associated with this rule? How difficult is it to enforce population control?
Q5) What factors led to the oil embargo of 1973-1975? What were the results?
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