Foundations of World Societies Question Bank
Course Introduction
Foundations of World Societies introduces students to the major developments, interactions, and transformations of human societies from ancient times to the early modern period. Through the examination of key themes such as social organization, religious beliefs, economic systems, state formation, and cultural exchange, the course explores the origins and evolution of civilizations across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Students analyze primary sources and engage with comparative perspectives to understand how diverse societies responded to challenges, adapted to changing environments, and laid the groundwork for the interconnected world we live in today.
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Chapter 1: The Peopling of the World, to 4000 BCE
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Q1) The most important event of the New Stone Age was the
A)Development of the wheel.
B)Creation of the first kingdom.
C)Production of food by farming and animal domestication.
D)Discovery and control of fire.
E)Hunting of large animals,like the elephants,to extinction.
Answer: C
Q2) By 25,000 BCE,these had died out leaving only homo sapiens sapiens.
A)homo habilis
B)neanderthal
C)homonins
D)austrolopithecines.
E)none of these choices
Answer: B
Q3) What kind of evidence suggests early religious beliefs?
Answer: In this essay, students should discuss the following points:
1.Burial of the dead suggested belief in the afterlife.
2.Cremation of Mungo Woman suggests ensuring her spirit did not return to disturb the living.
3.Female goddesses were made from ivory tusks, soapstone and clay.
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Chapter 2: The First Complex Societies in the Eastern
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Q1) The ancient Hebrews believed that the most important event in their history was A)God's choice of Abraham to lead his people.
B)Abraham and his wife promised God that they would have no children.
C)The death of Isaac ended the practice of human sacrifice among ancient Hebrews.
D)Abraham led the ancient Hebrews to the present site of Egypt.
E)Abraham was able to speak directly with God's messenger the angel Gabriel.
Answer: A
Q2) By 3100 B.C.E. ,what was the approximate population of Uruk,the first large city in Mesopotamia?
A)1 million.
B)1,000.
C)10,000.
D)50,000.
E)About 500,000.
Answer: D
Q3) Describe the social and economic changes that developed in ancient Mesopotamia as large cities emerged.
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss the following key points:
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Chapter 3: Ancient India and the Rise of Buddhism, 2600
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Q1) Although little is known about the Harappan Era in Indian history,what archaeological evidence has helped piece together this era and its people?
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss the following key points:
Q2) Describe how south Asia increased communication and trade with the rest of the world over time.
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss the following key points:
Q3) How was Soma used in Vedic culture?
A)As copper coins in the earliest stages of coin making.
B)As a part of a marriage ceremony.
C)As the ritual passage to adulthood required of all young men.
D)As a type of intoxicating drink used in various ceremonies.
E)As a group of required chants.
Answer: D
Q4) In the three Indian religions (Vedic,Jainism,and Buddhism),what roles were allowed to or required by women?
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss the following key points:
Q5) How were the rulers of the Indian empires different from those in ancient Mesopotamia,Egypt,neo-Assyria,and neo-Babylonia?
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss the following key points:
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Chapter 4: Blueprint for Empire: China, 1200 BCE-
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Q1) Elaborate on the political system of the Han dynasty.
Q2) Shang Yang
Q3) Translated,what does The Analects refer to?
A)Ancestor worship.
B)Discussions and conversations with Confucius.
C)The law of the land.
D)The early history of Shang dynasty.
E)Relations between the emperor and his subjects.
Q4) Government staff,commanderies,military governors,and magistrates had what duty from the First Emperor?
A)Adhere to the precepts of Confucius.
B)Allow no foreign invasions.
C)All criminal sentences and executions had to be approved by the emperor.
D)Carefully carry out the detailed laws of the Qin.
E)Inform the government of any infraction of the law.
Q5) Yellow River
Q6) Discuss early Chinese writing from the Shang dynasty and what information such writings have contributed to ancient Chinese history.
Q7) Korea
Q8) Han Dynasty
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Q1) Which statement best reflects the methods employed by archaeologists to piece together the history of the Americas and the Pacific?
A)They exercised great ingenuity.
B)They are unable to piece together the history.
C)They applied precision analysis to a sizeable amount of evidence.
D)They reconstructed the history using journals and letters of the early inhabitants.
E)None of these choices.
Q2) Although the wheel was not a part of Mesoamerican agricultural and military development,what artifacts or evidence show that they were aware of it?
A)Relics inside sun pyramids.
B)Children's toys.
C)Items at religious sites.
D)Allusions in Mayan writing.
E)Use to calculate calendars.
Q3) nixtamal
Q4) Long Count
Q5) ballgame
Q6) Hopewell
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Q1) Sasanians
Q2) Herodotus
Q3) The term direct democracy,which was established in Athens in 508 B.C.E. ,gave citizenship to
A)Married women.
B)Foreigners serving in the Athenian military.
C)Male citizens,20 years or older.
D)Only those Athenians who owned land.
E)Women who had served in the military.
Q4) Which of the following statements is not true?
A)After the Peloponnesian Wars,Athens never recovered its position as a powerful city-state.
B)Athens became the cultural center of philosophy.
C)Macedonia assumed the lead in the Greek world as the center of democracy.
D)Macedonia became the powerhouse after the Peloponnesian Wars.
E)Alexander assumed the leadership of Macedonia after the assassination of Philip.
Q5) Describe how Athens came to be known as the center of the study of philosophy.
Q6) Compare and contrast the lives of Spartan and Athenian women.
Q7) Alexander of Maceedon
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509 BCE- 476 Ce
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Q1) Who led the forces of Carthage against Rome's Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War?
A)Scipio.
B)Tiberius Gracchus.
C)Hannibal.
D)Polybius.
E)Herodotus.
Q2) Which of the following measures were not taken by Augustus to control the power of the military?
A)He decreased the size of the army.
B)Soldiers that had been demobilized were given land.
C)All high-ranking military officials were to be appointed by Augustus.
D)He transferred power to control the army to the princeps.
E)He allowed Roman women to join the army.
Q3) Carthage
Q4) How did the character of the army change during the later years of the Republic?
Q5) Scipio Africanus
Q6) Vandals
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Q7) What problems did Hannibal and his army face in crossing the Alps and invading Italy?
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Q1) What were the signs that the Tand Dynasty was in decline?
Q2) Jayavarman II
Q3) Empress Wu
Q4) Songsten Gampo founded the Yarlung dynasty in 617 to unify
A)China.
B)Japan.
C)Tibet.
D)Korea.
E)Khmer.
Q5) Travel between China and India involved all of the following sites except A)Isthmus of Kra.
B)the Arabian Sea.
C)Gulf of Thailand.
D)Andaman Sea.
E)Strait of Malacca.
Q6) Taizong
Q7) Equal-Field System
Q8) Songsten Gampo
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Q10) Discuss how Buddhism spread to Korea.
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Chapter 9: Islamic Empires of Western Asia and Africa, 600 - 1258
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Q1) How can the English translated word slave be related to the Islamic trade?
A)Muslim trade predominantly involved slaves from "slav" lands in central and eastern Europe.
B)Slaves taken from central Europe were very often Slavic.
C)Islam did not allow the sale and purchase of slaves.
D)Muslim trade involved slaves from central Asia.
E)Peoples in central Europe who refused to convert to Islam were sold into slavery.
Q2) Why was Mecca an important site even before the emergence of Islam? Why did the leaders of Mecca see Muhammad as a threat?
Q3) The judicial system of the Muslim empire was based on
A)The culture of the area.
B)The collective decisions of provincial qadis.
C)Islamic law.
D)The interpretation of the ruling caliph.
E)The ulama.
Q4) qadi
Q5) ulama
Q6) Abbasid caliphate
Q7) Translation Movement
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Q1) In the eighth and ninth centuries,prisoners of war captured by the Franks were called A)Captives.
B)Slaves.
C)Pilgrims.
D)Paupers.
E)Chattel.
Q2) Discuss the causes for the split in the Christian Church.
Q3) How was slavery related to the Vikings?
A)The Vikings freed all slaves.
B)Only Christian male prisoners were always sold into slavery.
C)Vikings regularly traveled to the eastern coast of Africa and captured or bought slaves.
D)The Vikings did not tolerate any form of slavery inside their society.
E)Prisoners were sold as slaves to the Abbasids and Byzantines.
Q4) Anglo-Saxons
Q5) wergeld
Q6) pope
Q7) How did the Charlemagne and the Carolingians transform Germanic society?
Q8) Bjami Herjolfsson
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Chapter 11: Expanding Trade Networks in Africa and India,
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Q1) Which of the following sources provide historians with information regarding sub-Saharan Africa of this time?
A)archeological excavations.
B)oral traditions.
C)language analysis.
D)references from other cultures and peoples.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) Elaborate on the idea that lineage or clan was the bedrock of Africa's diverse societies.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Sufis broke away from Islam.
B)Sufis were believed to have baraka (divine grace).
C)Sufis did not believe that God spoke to Abraham,Christ,or Muhammad.
D)Each Sufi believed that upon death,a personal meeting with God was assured.
E)The Sufi sect remained limited to Cairo.
Q4) qadi
Q5) How have historians been able to piece together the various histories of sub-Saharan Africa?
Q6) Mali
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Chapter 12: Chinas Commercial Revolution, ca900 - 1276
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Q1) What major political change was made by the founder of the Song dynasty?
A)All high military officials were executed or exiled.
B)Political power was put into the hands of the civilian bureaucrats rather than the military generals.
C)He took complete control of the military.
D)Admiring the power of the Qin,he made himself sole leader of the government.
E)Military governors were replaced by members of the royal court.
Q2) Discuss the growth of civil service examinations in Song China.
Q3) The Five Dynasties refers to the
A)fifty-three years between the Tang and Song dynasties.
B)length of time it took the Song to reunite China.
C)length of time needed to defeat the Song by the Jin.
D)fifty-three years China was without an emperor after the defeat to the Jin.
E)time it took for the Song dynasty to build a new capital at Kaifeng.
Q4) The early Chinese iron-factory system involved which of the following?
A)government workshops.
B)making cheaper goods.
C)hundreds of workers.
D)making military goods.
E)all of these choices
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Chapter 13: Europes Commercial Revolution, 1000 - 1400
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Q1) Cathedrals across western Europe were funded by donations from many people but particularly from A)guilds.
B)nobles.
C)other churches.
D)peasants.
E)special titles.
Q2) Serfs
Q3) Cluny
Q4) The Cistercian Order of monks broke away from the Clunaic order and established reforms that involved which of the following?
A)establishing fixed procedures for the creation of new monasteries.
B)living a life more austere than at Cluny.
C)eating only vegetarian meals.
D)regular conferences to oversee the adherence monks to Cistercian regulations. E)all of these choices.
Q5) Universities
Q6) What does the work of Adelard of Bath reveal about how the texts of classical Greek writers were transmitted to the scholastic writers of Europe?
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Chapter 14: The Mongols and Their Successors, 1200 - 1500
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Q1) Timur the Lame
Q2) Viewed as a usurper all his life,what might have been the goal of the Yongle emperor in building the great Chinese fleet commanded by Zheng He?
Q3) Mehmed the Conqueror
Q4) How was the city of Constantinople treated by the Ottomans after its defeat in 1453?
A)It was demolished by conquering Ottoman soldiers.
B)It was transformed from a Christian into a Muslim city.
C)The name of the city was changed to Istanbul to honor the Prophet.
D)Trade was destroyed in the city,causing severe economic depression.
E)Hagia Sophia was destroyed and replaced by a major Islamic mosque.
Q5) The defeat of Hulegu's army at Ayn Jalut in 1260 by Mamluks from Egypt was the first defeat of the Mongols in battle and also marks
A)The beginning of the Mongol Empire's conquest of Eygpt.
B)A reorientation of the Mongol Empire to Europe.
C)The end of a unified Mongol Empire.
D)A merger of the Mongols with the Abbasid caliphate.
E)An opportunity for Mongke to conquer more land.
Q6) Zheng He expeditions
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Q1) European merchants,primarily from ____,helped to create interest in areas outside of Europe as well as exploration.
A)Paris.
B)London.
C)Constantinople.
D)Madrid.
E)Genoa and Venice.
Q2) In 1444 Henry the Navigator received slaves from West Africa in a ceremony that included
A)giving slaves to churches and a convent.
B)ordaining a slave as a priest to minister to the other slaves.
C)symbolically sending one slave home to West Africa.
D)accepting the slaves into his house as personal servants.
E)drowning one slave to prevent the others from trying to rebel.
Q3) Conquistadors
Q4) Why was Columbus's proposal for an Atlantic voyage at first rejected,but later approved?
Q5) Senegal
Q6) Moveable Type
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Q1) Trade in West Africa was new and developing,beginning the origins of a new oceanic trade system centered on
A)competition between Portugal and Spain for empire.
B)rivalry between England and the Dutch for naval supremacy.
C)gold trade from Southern Africa.
D)Atlantic slave trade.
E)conflict over the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Q2) Examination system
Q3) The status of Mughal India as the most powerful state in South Asia was dependent on which of the following?
A)internal trade.
B)unifying an ethnically diverse people.
C)participation in Indian Ocean commerce.
D)political skill.
E)all of the answers are correct.
Q4) Vasco de Gama
Q5) How did the joint stock company and capitalism help to develop the status of the bourgeoisie? How is this class status different from the way class status was determined before?
Q6) Ashikaga
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Chapter 17: Religion, politics, and the Balance of Power in Western Eurasia,
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Q1) Süleyman's religious actions included
A)rebuilding Christian churches.
B)sponsoring court debates between religious leaders to create tolerance.
C)forcibly suppressing peasants who revered ancient deities.
D)building mosques and Islamic religious schools.
E)inviting both the pope and patriarch to his court.
Q2) Ivan III is associated with which of the following?
A)he drove out the Mongols.
B)he established his authority over all other Russian states.
C)all of these answers are correct.
D)he was the ruler of Muscovy with his capital at Moscow.
E)his concern to create buffer lands around the core of Russia to prevention of invasions.
Q3) The English Civil War (1642-1649)was caused by
A)discontent over losing a war with France.
B)Charles I's attempts to rule without Parliament.
C)Catholic discontent at the popularity of Puritanism.
D)the disinheritance of Charles I in favor of his brother.
E)Oliver Cromwell's desire to be king.
Q4) Kizilbash
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1600 - 1750
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Q1) Why was Sor Juana forced to sell her library of 4,000 books in 1694,one year before she died of plague?
A)Church leaders objected to her writing.
B)She needed money to return to Spain.
C)She needed money for a dowry.
D)The books were infected with smallpox.
E)She went blind and could no longer read them.
Q2) Which of the following is associated with debt peonage?
A)Ill-educated families.
B)Inherited debts.
C)Loans repaid in labor.
D)All of the answers are correct.
E)Minimal wages.
Q3) Which of the following is true?
A)Tobacco was used by Amerindians for social and ritual purposes.
B)The soil and climate of Virginia was suitable for tobacco growing.
C)The English practiced an exclusionary policy toward the Amerindians.
D)All of the answers are correct.
E)African slaves were used to provide labor.
Q4) What were the environmental and political effects of the French fur trade?
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Q1) A major fishing area for fishermen from New England,as well as Europe,was the Grand Banks found off the coast of
A)Newfoundland.
B)Cape Cod.
C)Boston.
D)Maine.
E)Greenland.
Q2) Press Gangs
Q3) Black Seminoles
Q4) Methodist movement
Q5) Which of the following statements are true?
A)legal debates concerned slavery and property rights.
B)Wilberforce decided that eliminating the slave trade alone had a better chance of passing Parliament.
C)Equiano became an active political leader in abolitionism.
D)the radicalism of the French Revolution made reform a suspicious item to the British government.
E)All of the answers are correct.
Q6) Olaudah Equiano
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Chapter 20: Empires in Early Modern Asia, 1650 - 1818
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Q1) Which of the following illustrates how the Qing relied on diplomacy to impose their control?
A)Korea and Vietnam recognized the Qing as their overlord.
B)All of the answers are correct.
C)Non-Han groups living on the geographic margins of Chinese society sent tribute missions.
D)A defeated Tibet was allowed local governments,under Manchu supervision.
E)Mongol emissaries were received at the summer palace,rather than in the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Q2) The Manchu first proclaimed the Qing Dynasty when they were asked by the Ming to
A)help fight the British incursion into Chinese territory.
B)help fight off a Japanese invasion.
C)defend the northern border against Mongols.
D)fill in the weakening Chinese army.
E)to supply the Ming with trained horses for war.
Q3) Catherine the Great
Q4) Russian Empire
Q5) Dalai Lama
Q6) Caucasus
Q7) Cossacks
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Chapter 21: European Science and the Foundations of
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Q2) Isaac Newton
Q3) John Locke
Q4) While Descartes' philosophy was based on introspection,Francis Bacon did not
A)base his knowledge on experimentation.
B)use an inductive approach to science.
C)believe in carefully controlled observations.
D)eliminate God from his studies.
E)feel that if one starts with a certainty,one will end in doubt.
Q5) How was the enlightened scientist different from the enlightened philosopher?
Q6) Among the many scientific observations made by Captain Cook and his crew,Cook completed his mission of
A)discovering a new island.
B)charting the Pacific.
C)finding the north passage to China.
D)introducing domesticated goats to Polynesia.
E)trading a ship load of slaves.
Q7) Deductive reasoning
Q8) Joseph Banks
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Chapter 22: Revolutions in the West, 1750 - 1830
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Q1) Concord
Q2) Which of the following describes the normal relationship of the French landowner and his peasant?
A)Justice for the peasants came from courts presided over by the lords.
B)Peasants had to donate free labor to cultivating the lord's estates.
C)All of the answers are correct.
D)Sometimes becoming violent,peasants burned estates to the ground.
E)The lord could charge any price he wanted for grinding the peasants' wheat into flour.
Q3) Elaborate on the situation facing Louis XVI upon taking the throne in 1774.
Q4) Gran Colombia
Q5) The final stage of the French Revolution involved
A)radical republicanism.
B)constitutional monarchy.
C)the guillotine.
D)absolute monarchy.
E)the rule of Napoleon.
Q6) Reign of Terror
Q7) peninsulares
Q8) Miguel de Hidalgo y Costilla
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Q2) Steamships
Q3) Friedrich Wilhem IV
Q4) Before Victoria became Queen of England in 1837,what kinds of problems had industrialization caused in England?
Q5) Which of the following statements reflects the problems facing Italian nationalism?
A)The north was an industrialized and urbanized area,similar to Western Europe.
B)Because of internal divisions,conservatives were able to stifle any unification attempts.
C)The south was mainly agricultural and rural in character.
D)All the answers are correct.
E)Dialects made it difficult for Italians to understand each other.
Q6) How did Muhammad Ali,the Ottoman military leader of Egypt,finance the modernization of Egypt?
A)Seized the Suez Canal
B)Taxed all foreign goods that sailed in and out of the Red Sea
C)Encouraged the production of cotton
D)Made a military alliance with Great Britain
E)Increased taxes on the peasant class
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Q2) Taiping Rebellion
Q3) After the fall of the Taiping,____ called for reform in China.
A)military leaders
B)nobles
C)British officials
D)educated Chinese
E)religious leaders
Q4) What was a goal of the moderate members of the Indian National Congress?
A)To have Indians find a place within the British rule of India.
B)Emphasis on reaching the level of the ideals enunciated by Queen Victoria.
C)Self-rule within the British empire.
D)Indians having to learn to respect all cultural factions,both British and within itself.
E)All of the answers are correct.
Q5) Self-strengthening movement
Q6) Why didn't the Indian Revolt of 1857 succeed?
Q7) Tokugawa
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Chapter 25: State Building and Social Change in the
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Q1) The French initiated a war with Mexico on the basis of A)protecting Catholicism.
B)protecting French investments in an unstable political system.
C)unpaid debts owed by the Mexican government.
D)a French attempt to reinstate Spanish power in Mexico,with a joint Spanish and French throne.
E)weakening the power of America in the Caribbean region.
Q2) What was one of Mexico's major problems after it won its independence from Spain in 1821?
A)The ruling class was inspired by the enlightened ideas of a liberal Europe.
B)Catholicism was weakened.
C)Caudillos proved to be highly educated and effective leaders.
D)Mexico's northern state of Texas was largely untamed frontier with few Mexican officials.
E)Mexico proved capable of matching its two northern neighbors in meeting modern challenges.
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Q4) Great Plains
Q5) Brazil
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Chapter 26: The New Imperialism in Africa and Southeast
Asia, 1830 - 1914
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Q2) Samuel Ajayi Crowther
Q3) Who had the fastest growing industrial economy in the late nineteenth century (after 1871)?
A)Britain.
B)Russia.
C)Belgium.
D)Germany.
E)Italy.
Q4) Which of the following is associated with mfecane?
A)The violent absorbing of chiefdoms by Shaka's armies
B)All of the answers are correct.
C)Local chiefs voluntarily submitting to the Zulu army
D)The creation of a powerful Zulu nation
E)Bangwato people fleeing to interior,seeking security from spreading warfare
Q5) Henry Morton Stanley
Q6) Xhosa Cattle Killing
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Q7) How did European imperialism impact the Islamic reform movement in West Africa?
Q8) Mfecane
Q9) Menelik II
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Chapter 27: War, revolution, and Global Uncertainty, 19051928
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Q2) David Lloyd-George
Q3) Western Front
Q4) With the acquisition of German East Africa,England controlled ____ from Cape Town to Cairo.
A)the entire west coast of Africa
B)all of the former German colonies
C)Muslim Africa
D)half of Africa
E)the entire east coast of Africa
Q5) As governmental power expanded to fulfill the need to carry out total war,what was the economic result?
A)Civilian consumption was not affected.
B)Wages were protected.
C)Treasuries were not affected because of the increase in taxes.
D)Factories converted to military production.
E)Unions became stronger because of the need for labor.
Q6) Joseph Stalin
Q7) Vladimir Lenin
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Chapter 28: Responses to Global Crisis, 1920 - 1939
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A)Comprehensive educational system.
B)Building large militaries.
C)Health care.
D)Unemployment insurance.
E)Housing subsidies.
Q2) As head of the German government,how did Hitler eliminate all opposition?
Q3) Which of the following brought the United States into direct military confrontation with Germany?
A)Chamberlain's active appeasement.
B)Occupation of the Rhineland by Germany.
C)Czechoslovakia.
D)Hitler and Stalin's nonaggression pact.
E)None of these.
Q4) Ahimsa
Q5) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q6) Igbo Women's War
Q7) Hirohito
Q8) Nationalism
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Chapter 29: The Second World War and the Origins of the
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A)Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan
B)Allied invasion of the Soviet Union
C)Opening a second Allied front in France
D)Defeat the Japanese first
E)Assassinate Hitler
Q2) Why did some French,both in France and in her colonies,support the Germans and the Vichy government?
Q3) Allied Powers
Q4) King's African Rifles
Q5) Indian National Congress
Q6) Felix Eboue
Q7) Which of the following was an original member of the Security Council of the United Nations?
A)The Soviet Union.
B)England.
C)France.
D)China.
E)All of the answers are correct.
F)United States.
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Chapter 30: The Cold War and Decolonization 1949 - 1975
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Q3) Compare and contrast how France and Britain treated their African colonies as they demanded independence after World War II.
Q4) Tlatelolco Massacre
Q5) Sekou Toure led what African nation to vote no to rejoining the French Community in 1958?
A)Ivory Coast.
B)Guinea.
C)Senegal.
D)Mali.
E)Ghana.
Q6) Which of the following did not enhance Nasser's reputation and image?
A)Negotiated withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal Zone.
B)Results of the Six-Day War.
C)Nationalized the Suez Canal.
D)Supported the cause of the Palestinians.
E)Took a belligerent stance toward Israel.
Q7) People's Republic of China
Q8) Mao Zedong
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Chapter 31: Toward a New World Order, 1975 - 2000
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Q2) Sweden,Denmark and ________ refused to surrender their currency and rejected the Euro.
A)Belgium.
B)France.
C)Italy.
D)Germany.
E)Great Britain.
Q3) Islamists
Q4) Palestinian Liberation Organization
Q5) Ronald Reagan
Q6) Until his overthrow in 1979,the Shah of Iran was considered to be a pawn of A)the Soviet Union.
B)Ayatollah Khomeini.
C)Islamists.
D)OPEC.
E)the United States.
Q7) Andrei Sakharov
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Chapter 32: Voyage Into the Twenty-First Century
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A)China and India.
B)The United States.
C)Russia.
D)Venezuela.
E)Mexico.
Q2) HIV/AIDS was first diagnosed in the A)1960s.
B)1970s.
C)1990s.
D)1950s.
E)1980s.
Q3) World Trade Organization
Q4) September 11,2001
Q5) War on Terror
Q6) Ai Weiwei
Q7) Arab Spring
Q8) Airpocalypse
Q9) Weapons of Mass Destruction
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