Foundations of World History Practice Questions
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Foundations of World History explores the major civilizations, events, and themes that have shaped human societies from ancient times to the early modern period. The course provides students with an understanding of the development of political systems, economic structures, social hierarchies, religious movements, and cultural interactions across different regions of the world. Emphasis is placed on comparing and contrasting societies, examining the causes and consequences of major historical changes, and analyzing the interconnectedness of world civilizations. By considering diverse perspectives and primary sources, students develop critical thinking and analytical skills necessary for understanding the complexities of global history.
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Chapter 1: The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000 Bce
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Q1) Which of these was NOT a staple of the West Asian economy in the early Neolithic?
A) wheat
B) barley
C) sheep
D) cattle
Answer: D
Q2) What was the impact of the Great Ice Age on human development?
A) Humans spread throughout the globe and developed new skills.
B) The period saw the near-extinction of human life.
C) Human populations concentrated in the warm areas of the tropics.
D) Humans spread throughout the globe, but development stagnated.
Answer: A
Q3) Çatal Hüyük was an ancient community that developed into a large town. In which present-day country was this town located?
Answer: Turkey
Q4) Where did agriculture first begin?
Answer: the Fertile Crescent
Q5) In what period did humans inhabit most of the globe?
Answer: Paleolithic
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Q1) Which people allowed the Hebrews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple following their Babylonian exile?
A) Assyrians
B) Chaldeans
C) Persians
D) Egyptians
Answer: C
Q2) Where were Ur and Uruk located?
Answer: Sumer, or southern Mesopotamia
Q3) The city of Nineveh was part of which ancient civilization?
A) Sumerians
B) Assyrians
C) Akkadians
D) Persians
Answer: B
Q4) Carthage was the most prominent of all the Phoenician colonies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Societies and Beliefs of Early India, to 500 Ce
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Q1) There is evidence to suggest that the Indus Valley peoples had connections with Mesopotamians.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Mauryan Empire arose at the time of the Aryan migrations into India.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The prophet and founder of Jainism was
A) Siddhartha.
B) Ashoka.
C) Mahavira.
D) Ashvaghosha.
Answer: C
Q4) Harappan civilization continued virtually unchanged in the Vedic Age.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Q1) What is the first known Chinese dynasty?
Q2) Which of these was the setting of China's first societies?
A) the Mongolian Plateau
B) the Yellow River
C) the Yangzi River
D) the coast of the East China Sea
Q3) Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the religious beliefs of the Shang dynasty?
A) Shang society was largely monotheistic.
B) Confucian ideology dominated the religious beliefs of the Shang.
C) The philosophy of Daoism was adopted by most of the people in Shang society.
D) The practice of ancestor worship was common in Shang society.
Q4) Who were the Yellow Turbans?
A) scholar bureaucrats
B) Han military leaders
C) Daoist monks
D) peasant rebels
Q5) Explain the notion of the yin and yang in Chinese society.
Q6) What is Confucianism?
Q7) Where was the western end of the Silk Road?
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Chapter 5: Early American Societies: Connection and
Isolation, 20,000 Bce - 1500 Ce
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Q1) Most Amerinds in North America developed written languages.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did the first humans most likely enter the Western hemisphere?
Q3) Describe the Long Count Calendar and comment on its religious significance.
Q4) The full-scale tribal societies differed from the complex societies in being
A) hunter-gatherers.
B) farmers.
C) semi-nomadic.
D) settled.
Q5) Some women became Mayan kings.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Which of the following accurately describes the first inhabitants of North America?
A) They were farmers.
B) They were very warlike.
C) They were nomadic hunter-gatherers.
D) They were not of Asian descent.
Q7) Discuss the "great cycle" doctrine espoused by the Olmec and Maya.
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Bce - 637 Ce
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Q1) Which of the following statements about King Shapur I is NOT True?
A) He made Zoroastrianism the state religion of Persia.
B) He tolerated the practice of Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism.
C) He conquered Mesopotamia in 256.
D) He suppressed ethnic groups through harsh legalism and a strong central government.
Q2) A small group of 360 Spartan soldiers held the Persian army of over 10,000 at a mountain pass called
A) Marathon.
B) Thermopylae.
C) Salamis.
D) Ionia.
Q3) In the long term, who was the real winner of the Peloponnesian War?
A) Athens.
B) Lydia.
C) Sparta.
D) Persia.
Q4) Discuss the influence of Zoroastrianism on other monotheistic religions.
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Q5) 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
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Q1) Which of the following statements about Aristotle is NOT True?
A) He laid the foundation for many of the science courses studied in schools today.
B) He was a poet and philosopher.
C) He was a leading Athenian dramatist.
D) In his later years he tutored Alexander the Great.
Q2) Who was the goddess of wisdom?
Q3) Which man discovered the remains of the Mycenaean civilization?
A) Herodotus
B) Arthur Evans
C) Heinrich Schliemann
D) Pericles
Q4) Discuss the Persian Wars and the effect these wars had on western civilization.
Q5) Which man used a philosophical method that consisted of asking questions?
A) Plato
B) Sophocles
C) Aristotle
D) Socrates
Q6) Which man wrote the first legal code in Greece?
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Q7) Which city-state created and dominated the Delian League in Greece?
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Chapter 8: The Romans Connect the Mediterranean World,
753 Bce - 284 Ce
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Q1) The Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus included all of the following EXCEPT
A) Spain.
B) Egypt.
C) Jerusalem.
D) Mesopotamia.
Q2) Why did some foreigners actually sell themselves into slavery in Rome?
Q3) 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.
Q4) Caesar did all of the following EXCEPT
A) study rhetoric in Greece.
B) provide an opportunity for the poor to own land.
C) revise the Roman calendar.
D) retire from power after restoring the Republic.
Q5) Which man led Rome's most famous slave revolt?
Q6) What was the impact on Roman religion of the expanding empire?
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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 were landed estates, the center of life for both nobles and peasants?
A) kingdoms
B) manors
C) villages
D) counties
Q2) The Great Schism of 1054 was a division between the Eastern and Western
A) Roman Emperors.
B) Christian churches.
C) kings of the Franks.
D) forms of monasticism.
Q3) According to Catholics, who was the first pope?
Q4) Which man established a "rule" for monastic life?
A) Augustine
B) Benedict
C) Leo
D) Charlemagne
Q5) The Byzantine emperor welcomed the news of Charlemagne's coronation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Byzantine World, 284-1240
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Q1) The Council of Nicaea upheld the teachings of Arius.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Evaluate the contributions of Justinian to western civilization.
Q3) Who defeated the Bulgarians in 1018?
Q4) Under Justinian, what was the relationship between the eastern and western Roman empires?
A) Reunification was conceivable but unlikely.
B) Most of the ties between the two empires were still intact.
C) The two halves were more alike than different.
D) Justinian did not try to join the two under his rule.
Q5) Which man tried to revive paganism in the Byzantine Empire?
A) Justinian
B) Julian
C) Constantine
D) Theodosius
Q6) What issue was settled by the Council of Nicaea?
Q7) Discuss the underlying ideological differences between Christians in the western and eastern empires.
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Q8) What disease decimated the Byzantine population in the 500s?
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Chapter 11: The Origins and Expansion of Islam, 100-750
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Q1) What must one do to become a Muslim?
A) Undergo public baptism.
B) Follow the five pillars.
C) Read the entire Qur'an.
D) Pass an oral exam on the doctrines of the faith.
Q2) Nearly all Meccan merchants initially rejected Muhammad's message.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why was Muhammad invited to Yathrib (Medina)?
A) to build a mosque
B) to mediate in a local dispute
C) to negotiate with Jews in the city
D) to establish trade with Mecca
Q4) The magnificent Dome of the Rock is in what city?
A) Mecca
B) Jerusalem
C) Damascus
D) Baghdad
Q5) Discuss ways in which the Islamic Empire differed from other great empires such as China, Persia, and Rome.
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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) Compare and contrast Cambodia and India with respect to government, religion, and social structure.
Q3) Who presided over Islam's Golden Age?
Q4) Sufis advocated enjoyment of worldly goods to demonstrate that they were blessed by God.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Who overthrew the Umayyads in 750?
A) Mughals
B) Abbasids
C) Persians
D) Turks
Q6) To what religion is Borobodur dedicated?
Q7) Why did the Abbasid caliphate decide to move the capital eastward?
Q8) Discuss how the Abbasid government differed from that of the Umayyads.
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Q10) What religion were the majority of Indians during the Delhi Sultanate?
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Chapter 13: Early African Societies, 1500 Bce-1500 Ce
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Q1) The Sanhaja were
A) Berber tribesmen who engaged in the Salt Trade.
B) Bantu clans who ruled West Africa.
C) Swahili-speaking Africans who mined gold.
D) Coptic Christians.
Q2) Slaves were highly desired by upper class Muslims to
A) fight in Muslim armies.
B) work as household servants.
C) work in salt mines.
D) work in gold mines.
Q3) How did Isma'ilis theology differ from that of Orthodox Shi'ites?
A) Orthodox Shi'ites expected the last imam to return as the Messiah.
B) Orthodox Shi'ites did not believe that Muhammad was the last prophet.
C) Orthodox Shi'ites rejected the idea of jihad.
D) Orthodox Shi'ites rejected the practice of polygamy.
Q4) Which of these was the Mali's source of power?
A) religious leadership of sub-Saharan Africa
B) control of trade in gold, copper, and salt
C) control of the slave trade
D) taxing the pilgrimage routes
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Chapter 14: The Evolution and Expansion of East Asian
Societies, 220-1240 Ce
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Q1) The Three Kingdoms era was the most prosperous time in Chinese history.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The native warrior clans in Japan were called
A) kamikaze.
B) shikibu.
C) uji.
D) kami.
Q3) Fan Kuan was a noted Song
A) painter
B) poet
C) Confucian scholar
D) Buddhist monk
Q4) Mahayana Buddhism, compared to Theravada Buddhism, was A) more informal.
B) more structured.
C) closer to the teachings of the Buddha.
D) theologically similar to Islam.
Q5) Discuss the impact of China on Korea.
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Chapter 15: Nomadic Conquests and Eurasian
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Q1) Discuss the military prowess of the impressive Mongol army.
Q2) Why was printing first refused by Muslims?
A) their illiteracy
B) on religious grounds
C) their lack of wood for blocks
D)their lack of paper-making technology
Q3) What was the significance of the battle at Dandanqan?
A) It stopped the Mongol onslaught on China.
B) It ended the Mongols' dream of world domination.
C) It opened southern Asia to waves of Turkish nomads.
D) It gave the Mongols control of the Silk Road.
Q4) The Seljuks underwent what major transformation in taking over Persian lands?
A) conversion to Christianity
B) change to a settled way of life
C) abandonment of Turkish customs
D) replacing Turkish with Farsi at all levels of society
Q5) What pandemic was greatly facilitated by the Pax Mongolica?
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Q6) What was the richest and most prosperous khanate?
Q7) Discuss the problems of succession that perpetually plagued the Mongol Empire.
Q8) What dynasty was founded by the Mongols in China?
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Chapter 16: The Resurgence of the Christian West, 1050-1530
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Q1) Which of the following factors led to the Great Western Schism?
A) The pope refused to accept the authority of the king.
B) Disputed papal elections.
C) The king had the pope kidnapped.
D) The loss of the Holy Land.
Q2) Who wrote of an imaginary island - Utopia - in which citizens held property in common?
A) Machiavelli
B) More
C) Castiglione
D) Erasmus
Q3) Which of these emerged from the Reconquista as a unified state?
A) Italy
B) Spain
C) France
D) Germany
Q4) Discuss the Great Western Schism and evaluate its effects on European society.
Q5) Thomas Aquinas was a leading scholastic theologian of the High Middle Ages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Culture and Conflict in the Great Islamic
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Q1) Compare and contrast the reign of Akbar and the reign of Aurangzeb.
Q2) Timur Lenk conquered all of the lands once ruled by the Mongols except A) Persia
B) Central Asia
C) the lower Volga
D) China
Q3) The Era of the Great Mughals began with the accession of A) Akbar.
B) Timur.
C) Nur Jahan.
D) Jahangir.
Q4) Timur Lenk considered himself the worthy heir of A) Babur.
B) Genghis Khan.
C) Ögedei Khan.
D) Batu Khan.
Q5) Janissaries were the Ottoman administrative class. A)True
B)False
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Q6) Which religion attempted to reconcile Hinduism and Islam into one faith?
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Q1) Amerind civilizations were relatively new in the 1500s because
A) they did not learn to hunt and gather until relatively late in their history.
B) their transitions from hunting and gathering to farming were delayed.
C) they resisted the transition from farming to industrialization.
D) they had extensive connections with each other, so they did not need to be self-sufficient.
Q2) Aztec policy towards conquered peoples was similar to that of the Romans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In which modern South American country was the Inca Empire centered?
Q4) Aztec legend stated that men who died in combat were reborn as A) gods.
B) hummingbirds.
C) cobras.
D) white men.
Q5) Which of these was most important in the Spanish victory over the Inca Empire?
A) superior weapons
B) the spread of smallpox
C) Spanish treachery
D) misunderstandings based on different cultures
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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) Where was the first Portuguese overseas conquest?
A) the Canaries
B) West Africa
C) Brazil
D) Morocco
Q3) Which of these had strengthened the monarchies of Spain and Portugal?
A) the Black Death
B) the Reconquista
C) the Ottoman capture of Constantinople
D) the rise of the Almoravids
Q4) The Jesuits were the least influential of all of the Catholic religious orders in Spanish America.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20:
The West in an Age of Religious Conflict and Global Expansion, 1500-1650
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Q1) The Lollards were followers of A) the pope.
B) Martin Luther.
C) John Calvin.
D) John Wyclif.
Q2) Where was Martin Luther when he made his famous reply to Emperor Charles V?
A) Wittenberg
B) Rome
C) Worms
D) Geneva
Q3) The defeat of the Spanish Armada ended fighting between England and Spain.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If the pope had annulled Henry's first marriage, he would have basically acknowledged that
A) the Bible's command to avoid divorce was wrong.
B) the previous pope had made a mistake.
C) Catherine of Aragon was unable to produce an heir.
D) adultery was allowed under special circumstances.
Q5) Discuss the Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia.
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Chapter 21: The Search for Stability in East Asia, 1300-1800
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Q1) Why were the house daimyo likely to be loyal to the Tokugawa?
A) They were members of his family.
B) They owed their position to the shogun.
C) They were kept weak and dependent.
D) Their estates were too far from Edo for the shogun to threaten.
Q2) Which country's navy was equipped with iron plated "turtle ships"?
A) Japan
B) China
C) Korea
D) Spain
Q3) Which of these was the focus of Wang Yangming's work?
A) military technology
B) Confucian thought
C) financial reform
D) reconciling Christianity and Daoism
Q4) Who were the "ocean devils"?
A) Spanish mariners
B) Japanese mariners
C) Portuguese mariners
D) Korean mariners
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Chapter 22: Southern Asia and the Global Shift in Wealth and
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Q1) Why did Nadir Shah invade India in 1739, sacking Delhi?
A) to move against the Hindu Mughal rulers
B) to punish the Mughals for failing to help Persia
C) in retaliation for the Mughal attack on Persepolis
D) because the Persians and Mughals had long been enemies
Q2) What was the status of the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s?
A) modernized and revived
B) weakened and reactionary
C) torn by Wahhabism and economically weak
D) divided but modernized
Q3) The French East India Company recalled François Dupleix to France after he
A) converted to Hinduism.
B) converted to Islam.
C) married a the daughter of a local Maratha leader.
D) was defeated by Robert Clive.
Q4) Discuss Wahhabi ideology and doctrine.
Q5) Discuss the differences in the European groups competing for power in Southeast Asia.
Q6) Who were the nawabs?
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Chapter 23: Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1400-1800
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Q1) What is the basis for classification according to race?
A) achievement
B) observed behavior
C) external appearance
D) religion
Q2) Evaluate the practice of polygyny in Africa.
Q3) Discuss the long-lasting effects of the African slave trade.
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) Discuss the reign of King Afonso I.
Q6) Which of these was the most important reason for the growth of the slave trade in the 1600s?
A) population loss due to the Black Death
B) expansion of sugar plantations
C) the Wars of Religion
D) expansion of tobacco plantations in North America
Q7) What were Dutch settlers in South Africa called?
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Q1) 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
Q2) The major goal of Frederick William was strengthening Prussia's A) nobility.
B) army.
C) merchants.
D) legislature.
Q3) Whose "New Methodology" laid the groundwork for the scientific method?
Q4) The ultimate goal of the Fronde was to
A) revoke the Edict of Nantes.
B) grant freedom of religion to Protestants in France.
C) limit royal power.
D) overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic.
Q5) Frederick I of Prussia is an example of an enlightened absolute ruler.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 25: Russias Eurasian Empire: Convergence of East and
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Q1) What was the general direction of expansion under Ivan IV?
Q2) The Russian Orthodox Church schism was triggered by changes in policy instituted by
A) Feodor the Bellringer.
B) Patriarch Nikon.
C) Tsar Filaret.
D) Filofei.
Q3) Ivan won the support of the boyars by
A) marrying the daughter of the chief boyar.
B) promising them places of importance in the government.
C) promising them land grants and priviliges
D) helping them defeat the Cossacks.
Q4) Ivan IV's reformation of the Muscovite military included all of the following EXCEPT the
A) creation of Moscow's first standing army.
B) reliance on the boyars to raise troops.
C) use of gunpowder weapons such as cannons and muskets.
D) creation of an elite royal guard.
Q5) What was a Russian metropolitan?
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Q1) What was at stake in the Seven Years War?
A) North Atlantic supremacy
B) succession to the Austrian throne
C) division of the Ottoman empire
D) trading rights with China
Q2) The Third Estate refused to abide by the traditional system for voting in the Estates General.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Napoleon signed the Concordat because he
A) was a devout Catholic.
B) believed that defeating the English navy was impossible.
C) believed that his invasion of Russia would be short.
D) wanted to preserve Catholicism as a social force.
Q4) The slogan of the French Revolution was
A) "No taxation without representation."
B) "Liberty, equality, and fraternity."
C) "No to absolutism."
D) "Land, peace, and bread."
Q5) Who was the head of the Ottawa nation?
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Q1) Which of these explain the numerous uprisings in Italy, Germany, and the Austrian Empire in 1848-49?
A) the large size of these states
B) strong nationalist feelings
C) proximity to the Ottoman Empire
D) socialist traditions in those regions
Q2) How did the great migrations of the 1800s alter American societies?
A) South America became more European while the United States became more diverse.
B) South America became more English while the United States became more Spanish.
C) South America experienced a tremendous population surge as Catholics left the United States in record numbers.
D) The Americas experienced population decline as many people returned to Europe to enjoy the fruits of industrialization.
Q3) Charles Fourier and Robert Owen formed model communities on socialist principles.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 28: Nation Building in the Americas, 1789-1914
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Q1) Which of these represented Argentina's social divisions?
A) criollos and porteños
B) gauchos and porteños
C) porteños and peninsulares
D) gauchos and criollos
Q2) Spaniards born in the Spain were called
A) criollos.
B) peninsulares.
C) mestizos.
D) españas.
Q3) Under the Articles of Confederation, most power was held by A) the national legislature.
B) the president.
C) state governments.
D) an executive council.
Q4) The basis of Argentina's economy was mining.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the problems plaguing Mexico in its early years.
Q6) What other "indispensable leader" did Bolívar most resemble?
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Chapter 29: New Connections and Challenges in Eastern and
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Q1) Hakka was
A) an oppressed Chinese minority.
B) a type of Chinese poetry.
C) the name for the Manchu government.
D) a new Chinese dynasty.
Q2) Evaluate the role of the samurai in the overthrow of the Japanese shogunate.
Q3) Which of these stood between French and British possessions in Southeast Asia?
A) Burma
B) Thailand
C) Borneo
D) French Indochina
Q4) The Macartney Mission was designed to
A) convince Japan to open ports to U.S. goods.
B) convince China to open ports to British goods.
C) convince Japan to open ports to British goods.
D) convince China to open ports to U.S. goods.
Q5) Evaluate the role of Indian professionals in the Indian nationalist movements.
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Q6) Until the 1800s, which were the only merchants allowed to trade in Japan?
Q7) What was Canton's merchant guild called?
Q8) Evaluate the reign of Empress Cixi.
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Chapter 30: New Connections and Challenges in West Asia and
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Q1) The Barbary States were part of a region also known as the A) Maghrib.
B) Balkans.
C) Levant.
D) Sudan.
Q2) Which European nation conquered the Congo region, leading to a scramble for Africa?
A) Britain
B) Germany
C) France
D) Belgium
Q3) Which of these motivated independence movements in both the Ottoman Empire and Africa in the late 1800s?
A) Muslim unity
B) Christian ideology
C) nationalism
D) anti-Western sentiment
Q4) Which country of the Maghrib was independent in 1800?
Q5) Which European country gained control of South Africa?
Q6) Which independent African nation was a Christian kingdom? Page 41
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Q1) Which of these best describes the geography of World War I in Europe?
A) The Triple Alliance formed a circle around the Triple Entente.
B) The Triple Entente forced a two-front war on the Triple Alliance.
C) The Triple Alliance controlled much of the Mediterranean coast.
D) The Triple Alliance was divided by the Triple Entente.
Q2) Which nation brought submarines onto the naval front in WWI?
A) Britain
B) Germany
C) Russia
D) the United States
Q3) The Fourteen Points were proposed by Germany at the end of the Great War.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following nations remained neutral in WWI?
A) Spain
B) Finland
C) Greece
D) Portugal
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Q5) Which country employed a fleet of U-boats that sank merchant, passenger, and battleships?
Chapter 32: Anxieties and Ideologies of the Interwar Years,
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Q1) 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
Q2) Britain received the mandate for the region commonly referred to as Palestine.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What new nation was created from an expanded Serbia after the war?
A) Poland
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Romania
D) Yugoslavia
Q4) How did Mao Zedong's ideology differ from that of Karl Marx?
A) Mao did not believe in a violent revolution; Marx did.
B) Marx did not believe in a violent revolution; Mao did.
C) Mao believed that peasants, not urban proletariats, could lead a Communist revolution.
D) Marx believed that peasants, not urban proletariats, could lead a Communist revolution.
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Chapter 33: World War Ii and the Holocaust, 1933-1945
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Q1) When the Nazis initially invaded the Soviet Union
A) the Soviets were well prepared.
B) Stalin launched a counter-attack.
C) they were welcomed by many as liberators.
D) Hitler focused his attack on a single objective, Moscow.
Q2) Discuss America's use of nuclear weapons to end WWII.
Q3) Which of these remained neutral in World War II?
A) Spain
B) Bulgaria
C) Austria
D) Vichy France
Q4) Compared to the Great War, WW II's impact on civilians was
A) about the same.
B) much less destructive.
C) exaggerated by both sides for political advantage.
D) far more deadly and destructive.
Q5) How long did it take for Germany to defeat France in WWII?
Q6) Why did the Nazis expect an Allied landing at Calais?
Q7) How did Hitler justify the annexation of the Sudetenland?
Q8) What does Lebensraum mean?
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Chapter 34: East Versus West: Cold War and Its Global Impact,
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Q1) Which man popularized the term "iron curtain"?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Winston Churchill
D) Harry Truman
Q2) American president John F. Kennedy made a famous speech in which he declared that, "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But...."
A) "it is better than communism."
B) "give me liberty or give me death."
C) "I'd rather die in a shack as a free man than in a castle as a communist."
D) "we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in."
Q3) In which country was the notion of "socialism with a human face" introduced?
Q4) According to Ronald Reagan, what was the "evil empire"?
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A)True
B)False
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Chapter 36: Reform and Revolution in Latin America,
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Q1) The Good Neighbor Policy was initiated by
A) Theodore Roosevelt.
B) Franklin Roosevelt.
C) Woodrow Wilson.
D) Dwight Eisenhower.
Q2) The Good Neighbor Policy represented
A) a policy of economic sanctions.
B) a move away from interference in Latin American internal affairs.
C) a shift to gunboat diplomacy.
D) a move towards deeper involvement in Latin American politics.
Q3) Which man spoke of a "third way" between communism and capitalism?
A) Fidel Castro
B) Salvador Allende
C) Hugo Chavez
D) Juan Perón
Q4) The term machismo refers to the Iberian concept of feminine submission.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the Pinochet regime in Chile.
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Q6) Discuss how Franklin Roosevelt changed U.S. relations with Latin America.
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Q1) How was China's economy affected by the Great Leap Forward?
A) It was decentralized.
B) It was centralized.
C) It was urbanized.
D) It was greatly improved.
Q2) Gandhi's political heir was Jawaharlal Nehru.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the status of Cambodia after 1993?
A) It was ruled by China.
B) It was an independent constitutional monarchy.
C) It was an autonomous republic of China.
D) It was an independent Communist country.
Q4) Which of these presented the greatest challenge to Suharto, as leader of Indonesia?
A) the Communist party
B) opposition from Western powers
C) Muslim opposition
D) lack of natural resources
Q5) Discuss the Chinese Civil War.
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Chapter 37: Post-Colonial Challenges in Africa and the
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Q1) Which of these became president of Iraq in 2005?
A) Muammar Qaddafi
B) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
C) Anwar Sadat
D) Hosni Mubarak
Q2) Which country successfully resisted colonization, and became a symbol of African refusal to accept colonial rule?
A) Sudan
B) Ethiopia
C) Tanzania
D) South Africa
Q3) Discuss the Islamic Revival since 1970 in the Middle East.
Q4) Neo-colonialism refers to
A) African colonization of neighboring peoples.
B) European efforts to hold onto their colonies in the face of independence movements.
C) European economic dominance of Africa after political independence.
D) Asian conquest of African nations.
Q5) Discuss the declining British Empire following WWII.
Q6) Evaluate Egypt's role in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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