Global History
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Course Introduction
Global History explores the interconnectedness of human societies across different regions and eras, examining major events, movements, and processes that have shaped the world from ancient times to the present. The course emphasizes transnational interactions, cultural exchanges, economic systems, the spread of ideas and technologies, and the impacts of colonialism, migration, and globalization. By considering diverse perspectives and experiences, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how historical developments at local, regional, and global levels have influenced contemporary issues and contributed to our shared human story.
Recommended Textbook Traditions and Encounters A Brief Global History 4th Edition by Jerry Bentley
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Chapter 1: The Foundations of Complex Societies
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a Semitic language?
A)Hebrew
B)Phoenician
C)Aramaic
D)Sumerian
E)Akkadian
Answer: D
Q2) Sumerian writing is known as
A)demotic.
B)cuneiform.
C)hieroglyphic.
D)coptic.
E)alphabetic.
Answer: B
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) In Africa,iron metallurgy
A)was introduced by Persian merchants.
B)did not appear until after the rise of trans-Saharan trade.
C)arose independently.
D)began after an odd meeting between a Kushite king and the Egyptian explorer Harkhuf.
E)was imported into the continent by trade with the Mesopotamians.
Answer: C
Q2) The Egyptians were the most imperialistic during the A)First Intermediary Period.
B)Archaic Period.
C)New Kingdom.
D)Old Kingdom.
E)Middle Kingdom.
Answer: C
Q3) The Egyptians supplemented their pictographs with symbols representing sounds and ideas;they were called hieroglyphs by the Greeks.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Early Societies in South and East Asia
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Q1) The Book of Songs was a Zhou collection of verses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) What does the mandate of heaven tell us about the philosophy,religion,and social structure of the ancient Chinese?
Answer: Answers will vary
Q3) The two principal means to achieve the goal of moksha are
A)righteous battle and conquest.
B)asceticism and meditation.
C)intellectual stimulation and hedonistic pleasure.
D)artistic expression and logical intellectual progression.
E)blood-letting and human sacrifice.
Answer: B
Q4) The Zhou dynasty (1766-1122B.C.E. )monopolized the technology of iron metallurgy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) What factors might explain the decline and collapse of Mesoamerican societies such as the Olmecs and the Maya? Why is the decline of these two societies so mysterious?
Q2) Read the section drawn from the Popol Vuh .Compare this creation story to others studied in the class.Why did the gods create humans in the first place? Why would it make sense for humans to be made of maize?
Q3) Compare and contrast the societies that existed under the Chavín cult and the Mochica State.
Q4) Look at the picture of Teotihuacan on page 71.How populous and powerful was this city? Discuss the importance of the Pyramid of the Sun.
Q5) 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?
Q6) The most characteristic artistic creations of the Olmecs were
A)pyramids.
B)elaborate murals.
C)temples.
D)ziggurats covered with a limestone finish.
E)colossal human heads sculpted from basalt.
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Chapter 5: The Empires of Persia
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Q1) The victories of the Greeks at Marathon and of Alexander of Macedon at Gaugamela are all too often seen as victories for the rise of civilization.In what ways might these Persian losses be considered losses for the rise of civilization?
Q2) What was a satrapy? How did satrapies help the Achaemenids rule their empire?
Q3) The population of the Achaemenid empire under Darius was
A)one million.
B)three million.
C)six million.
D)eleven million.
E)thirty-five million.
Q4) Compare the ruling techniques of the Persians,especially those of Cyrus and Darius,to other societies you have studied so far.
Q5) The greatest Parthian conqueror was Mithradates I.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why does the text say that Darius was "more important as an administrator than as a conqueror"?
Q7) Describe the administrative structure of the Achaemenid empire.
Q8) How did the Parthians come to control the Persian empire?
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Chapter 6: The Unification of China
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Q1) The most important text of Daoism is the
A)Book of Songs.
B)Wuwei.
C)Daodejing.
D)Analects.
E)Dao of Reflection.
Q2) Read the section from the Analects .How do these quotes relate to basic Confucian notions such as ren,li,and junzi?
Q3) Which one of the following was NOT one of Qin Shihuangdi's policies?
A)strong centralized rule
B)support of traditional learning
C)huge public works projects
D)disarming regional military forces
E)building protective walls
Q4) What was the role of the family in classical China?
Q5) Confucius was the philosopher who believed that political and social harmony arose from the proper ordering of human relationships.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
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Q1) During the time of the Aryans,the Indian political landscape was characterized by A)a series of small kingdoms.
B)efficient centralized government.
C)constant bloody civil war.
D)two equally matched rival states.
E)a turbulent but profitable union with China.
Q2) Examine the Mauryan and Gupta dynasties as represented in Map 7.1,The Mauryan and Gupta empires,321B.C.E.-550C.E.What did these dynasties have in common? How did trade influence them?
Q3) After the collapse of the Mauryan empire,India
A)returned to a series of regional kingdoms.
B)was immediately reunified in a new empire.
C)was united by a new wave of invaders.
D)suffered through a long period of chaos marked by a later Dravidian uprising.
E)was absorbed into the expanding Chinese empire.
Q4) What were the major accomplishments of the emperor Ashoka?
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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Chapter 8: Mediterranean Society Under the Greeks and the Romans
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Q1) Examine the role that family played in ancient Rome.What role did women play inside and outside the home? Did women have more or less freedom in Rome than in other societies?
Q2) What part did slaves play in Athens and Sparta? How did Greek law treat slaves?
Q3) Julius Caesar was the leader who reunified the Roman world and began the pax romana.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were the main achievements and limitations of the Roman republic and Roman empire? What were the key turning points in Roman history?
Q5) The term paterfamilias refers to the A)patriarchal nature of the Roman family.
B)prolonged period of peace and stability beginning with the reign of Augustus. C)concept of Jesus of Nazareth's relationship to his god.
D)position of Jupiter as the king of the Roman gods.
E)central role of the Roman emperor in running the state.
Q6) Examine the constantly changing religious world of the Romans.Explain the Roman role in the rise of Christianity.
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Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads
During the Late Classical ERA
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Q1) Compare and contrast the spread of Buddhism,Hinduism,and Christianity.What were the social and cultural implications of this movement of different faiths?
Q2) St.Cyprian proposed that,"It requires enormous greatness of heart to struggle with resolute mind against so many onslaughts of destruction and death." What calamity was Cyprian talking about? In what ways were the spread of diseases and the spread of Christianity linked?
Q3) How did Europe's culture change during the late Roman empire?
Q4) St.Augustine made Christian thought more appealing to the educated classes by harmonizing it with
A)Greek and Roman philosophical traditions.
B)Jewish thought.
C)Byzantine philosophy.
D)Manichaean syncretism.
E)Confucian thought.
Q5) The Chinese emissary whose journeys helped to establish the silk roads was Zhang Qian.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How did the silk roads facilitate the spread of Hinduism and Christianity?
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Chapter 10: The Christian Commonwealth of Byzantium
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Q1) In a disaster from which the Byzantine empire never really recovered,Constantinople was sacked in 1204 by the A)crusading Normans.
B)Saljuq Turks.
C)Ottoman Turks.
D)Sasanids.
E)largest Arab force ever sent against a city.
Q2) Examine the mosaic of Justinian on page 184.How does the image reflect the Byzantine concept of caesaropapism?
Q3) Look at the picture of the church of Hagia Sophia on page 185.What can we learn about the splendor of Justinian's reign from this picture? What is Hagia Sophia used for today,and what does this use tell us about the fate of Byzantium?
Q4) From the sixth century on,the official language of Constantinople was A)Latin.
B)Turkish.
C)Aramaic.
D)Greek.
E)French.
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Chapter 11: The Expansive Realm of Islam
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Q1) The Quran,following the example of Muhammad,allowed men to have up to how many wives?
A)one
B)two
C)four
D)seven
E)ten
Q2) How was the Islamic world influenced by its contact with the older Greek,Persian,and Indian societies? How did Islam influence these societies?
Q3) The founder of the Abbasid dynasty was
A)Harun al-Rashid.
B)Ali.
C)Abu al-Abbas.
D)al-Ghazali.
E)Muhammad.
Q4) Compare and contrast Islam to other religions discussed in the class,such as Hinduism,Buddhism,and Zoroastrianism.Do these religions have anything in common?
Q5) What factors contributed to the expansion of Islamic overland and maritime trade?
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Chapter 12: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
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Q1) After the collapse of the Tang,warlords ruled in China until the Song dynasty re-imposed imperial rule.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 1024,
A)the Song emperors outlawed the printing of paper money,by anyone.
B)the Song emperors transferred the printing of paper money from government to private control.
C)the Chinese economy collapsed because of inflation caused by the printing of paper money.
D)the Tang emperors established the first modern banking industry.
E)the first paper money,printed under government auspices,appeared.
Q3) How is the rise of neo-Confucianism related to the increasing popularity of Buddhism? Can you think of other examples from the course where one philosophy developed in opposition to another?
Q4) Compare the role that China played in the development of Korea,Vietnam,and Japan to the role played by Greece and Rome in the Mediterranean basin and the role played by Byzantium in eastern Europe and Russia.
Q5) What agricultural developments helped to transform the Chinese economy?
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Chapter 13: India and the Indian Ocean Basin
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Q1) In 1336,Harihara and Bukka,two emissaries from the Delhi sultan,renounced Islam,reconverted to Hinduism,and founded the southern kingdom of A)Chola.
B)Vijayanagar.
C)Funan.
D)Angkor.
E)Maurya.
Q2) The temples of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat were built by the rulers of what kingdom?
A)Khmer
B)Funan
C)Srivijaya
D)Melaka
E)Majapahit
Q3) Discuss the changes in the social world of postclassical India.How do changes in the caste system reflect this process?
Q4) Examine the influence of trade in the political,cultural,and religious development of the Indian basin.Explain the significance of the monsoon.What role did the Hindu temples of southern India play in economic growth?
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Chapter 14: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
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Q1) Examine the rise of the Ottoman Turks.How did they benefit from other conquerors that came before them? How important was the conquest of Constantinople?
Q2) Chinggis Khan
A)created a tightly structured centralized government.
B)relied heavily on the Chinese to fill major governmental positions.
C)did not establish a centralized government in the lands he conquered.
D)carried Chinese governmental techniques to Persia.
E)carried Persian governmental techniques to China.
Q3) What role did religion(s)play in the nomadic empires? What generalizations can you make? What are the significant differences?
Q4) By facilitating trade and communications throughout Eurasia,the Mongols unwittingly expedited the spread of bubonic plague.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the military organization,techniques,and strategies of these Asian nomads.How did these abilities make their military so formidable?
Q6) What does the passage from William Rubruck tell you about the social structure of Mongol society?
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Chapter 15: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) Just as the kingdoms of west Africa were linked to the wider world by trans-Saharan trade,the kingdoms of east Africa were linked mainly by
A)Egyptian trade.
B)Indian Ocean trade.
C)trans-Atlantic trade.
D)south African trade.
E)Persian Gulf trade.
Q2) A Bantu district,which consisted of a group of villages,
A)was headed by a powerful greater chief.
B)was ruled by a district council.
C)was usually not ruled by a chief or by a larger government.
D)never numbered more than a few hundred in total population.
E)was a tightly centralized structure under a core of educated bureaucrats.
Q3) Ife and Benin were both
A)kingdoms with broadly democratic rule.
B)monarchies ruled by centralized dynasties.
C)city-states ruled by family relationships and political alliances.
D)empires that dominated the gold trade.
E)oasis towns that began to exercise some power over a larger region.
Q4) In what ways was Kilwa a good example of a Swahili city-state?
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Chapter 16: Christian Western Europe During the Middle Ages
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Q1) St.Thomas Aquinas
A)stressed the importance of an emotional,unquestioning devotion to God.
B)founded the Dominicans.
C)believed that it was possible to prove rationally that God exists.
D)looked to the Cathars for inspiration.
E)was the author of The City of God.
Q2) What was the role of the textile industry in the European economy during this period?
Q3) How did the development of chivalry affect the noble classes?
Q4) The guilds of the high middle ages
A)were exclusively male.
B)were designed to fight for better wages from the factory owners.
C)usually admitted women as members.
D)were designed to fight against the increasing materialism of the age.
E)were extensions of the monasteries.
Q5) How did the ideal of the Holy Roman Empire compare to the reality? Describe its actual political structure and its effect on the power structures of Europe.
Q6) Describe the popular heresies that arose during the high middle ages in Europe and the reactions of the church and government authorities.
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Chapter 17: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) In the Aztec social hierarchy,most of the honors and rewards went to the A)priests.
B)women.
C)farmers.
D)military elite.
E)bureaucrats.
Q2) Mexica priests
A)played a very limited role in society.
B)had great power as advisors to the rulers.
C)made up the bulk of sacrificed victims.
D)spent the majority of their time working to improve the lives of slaves.
E)attended special state-funded schools.
Q3) The Inca sun god was A)Viracocha.
B)Huitzilopochtli.
C)Cuzco.
D)Quetzalcóatl.
E)Inti.
Q4) What are some of the notable achievements of Inca society?
Q5) What role did trade play in the nomadic foraging societies of Australia?
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Chapter 18: Cross-Cultural Interactions
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Q1) Examine the Renaissance.What were its foundations? In what ways was it different from earlier European thought?
Q2) When Pope Innocent IV sent envoys to invite the Mongols to join in an alliance against the Muslims,
A)a treaty was signed that forged a long-lasting political partnership.
B)the khans declined and in turn told the Christians to submit to Mongol rule or be destroyed.
C)the resulting war brought about an end to Islamic influence in central Asia.
D)it so angered the Islamic kingdoms that they rose up and crushed the Mongols.
E)the khans accepted and quickly sacked Jerusalem.
Q3) Cotton was introduced to west Africa by the A)Europeans.
B)Muslims.
C)Chinese.
D)Bantus.
E)Mongols.
Q4) Examine the career of Hongwu and the establishment of the Ming dynasty.How did Hongwu influence China? What were his goals? How long-lasting were his changes?
Q5) 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) Explore the differing approaches to exploration,trade,and colonization of the western European nations.What might explain these differences? How would these different approaches influence the areas being explored and colonized?
Q2) What is it about the western Europeans that might explain this period of exploration? Why didn't this exploration happen earlier or elsewhere?
Q3) What was the significance of Magellan's voyage of 1519-1522? What were the some of the challenges for explorers of the Pacific Ocean?
Q4) Compare the Spanish conquest of the Philippines with the Dutch conquest of Indonesia.What kind of colony emerged in each case?
Q5) Examine the growth of worldwide trade from 1500 to 1800.Discuss the rise and implications of a global trading system.
Q6) The astrolabe was designed to measure A)latitude. B)velocity. C)distance. D)longitude. E)depth.
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Chapter 20: The Transformation of Europe
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Q1) 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?
Q2) The council that helped define and advance the Catholic Reformation took place in A)Trent.
B)Pisa.
C)Wittenberg.
D)Rome.
E)Milan.
Q3) Examine the wars in early modern Europe.What caused most of these conflicts? What were the results of these confrontations? Who won and who lost?
Q4) Which of the following conflicts was a major war that unfolded in the wake of the Peace of Westphalia?
A)the English civil war
B)the Thirty Years' War
C)the Hundred Years' War
D)the Seven Years' War
E)the Glorious Revolution
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Chapter 21: New Worlds: the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) What became of the Taino people of the Caribbean?
Q2) What was the basis of the economy of the Spanish empire? Who profited most from this?
Q3) The conquistador who conquered the Incas was A)Balboa.
B)Cortés.
C)Cabral.
D)Magellan.
E)Pizarro.
Q4) The métis were
A)French Jesuit missionaries.
B)migrants who had been born in Europe.
C)the Spanish administrative officials who reported back directly to the king.
D)the French equivalents of the peninsulares.
E)individuals of French and indigenous parentage.
Q5) What role did disease play in the Spanish conquest of the Americas? What can this express about the isolation of these societies?
Q6) Why did slavery eventually become more common than indentured servitude in the colonies?
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Q7) Explain how sugar production came to dictate so much of colonial Brazilian life.
Chapter 22: Africa and the Atlantic World
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Q1) The Songhay empire fell in 1591 to a(n)
A)Moroccan army.
B)Portuguese army.
C)Dutch army.
D)English army.
E)French army.
Q2) The Portuguese referred to Ndongo as Angola because of the word ngola,which meant
A)"gold."
B)"slave."
C)"impure."
D)"king."
E)"indigo."
Q3) The center of Islamic learning in west Africa was A)Kilwa.
B)Jenne.
C)Gao.
D)Timbuktu.
E)Mbanza.
Q4) How was the kingdom of Kongo transformed by its contacts with the Portuguese?
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Chapter 23: Tradition and Change in East Asia
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Q1) Foreign trade during the Qing dynasty was
A)carried out exclusively with the Europeans.
B)actively supported by the government and grew much larger than ever before.
C)based on free-market principles.
D)limited and under tight governmental control.
E)fueled by the payment of valuable Chinese silver in return for imports.
Q2) Examine the unification of Japan.What role did Tokugawa Ieyasu play in this movement? How did he influence Japanese history?
Q3) The author of The Life of a Man Who Lived for Love was
A)Tokugawa Ieyasu.
B)Bunraku Ukiyo.
C)Ihara Saikaku.
D)Matteo Ricci.
E)Zheng He.
Q4) Examine the concept of the "Son of Heaven." What were the foundations of this belief? Compare this idea to other political systems seen so far in the class.
Q5) What factors led to the economic and population growth of Japan under the Tokugawa shoguns?
Q6) What factors led to rapid population growth in China?
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Q1) What role did religious conservatism play in the decline of the Islamic states? Have we seen similar problems in other societies studied so far?
Q2) The founder of the Mughal dynasty,who claimed descent from Chinggis Khan and Tamerlane,was
A)Safi al-Din.
B)Shah Ismail.
C)Akbar.
D)Osman Bey.
E)Zahir al-Din Muhammad.
Q3) The Islamic leader who converted to Twelver Shiism was A)Zahir al-Din Muhammad.
B)Akbar.
C)Selim the Grim.
D)Shah Ismail.
E)Shah Abbas.
Q4) Identify and compare the status of religious minorities within the three Islamic empires.Which empire faced the greatest challenges in this regard?
Q5) Compare Akbar's policies with those of Aurangzeb.
Q6) What factors led to the economic and military decline of the Islamic empires?
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Chapter 25: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
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Q1) Jean-Jacques Rousseau,in his book The Social Contract,argued that in an ideal society,the sovereign voice of government
A)would be the members of society acting collectively.
B)would be the king because,despite his faults,he was still of divine appointment. C)should be the nobles instead of the king because of their control of the land. D)should be the bishops and archbishops because of their special relationship to God. E)resided in the army.
Q2) What were the principal causes of the French revolution of 1789? Were these concerns addressed by the revolution?
Q3) What factors led the western powers to abolish the slave trade and then slavery in the nineteenth century?
Q4) Read the excerpts from The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen .What ideals of the Enlightenment are expressed? How revolutionary was this document? How can the influence of Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence be seen?
Q5) In what specific ways did the ideals of the Enlightenment challenge long-held assumptions about government and social order?
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Chapter 26: The Making of Industrial Society
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Q1) Henry Bessemer's innovations made it possible to produce cheaper
A)iron.
B)cotton.
C)steel.
D)oil.
E)wool.
Q2) In what ways did the major industrial nations of the west become more responsive to the needs and interests of working people?
Q3) The Russian serfs were emancipated by
A)Nicholas II.
B)Catherine the Great.
C)Peter the Great.
D)Alexander II.
E)Ivan III.
Q4) In the industrial society,the family was the basic productive unit.Family members worked together and contributed to the welfare of the larger group;there was little distinction between work and family life.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 27: The Americas in the Age of Independence
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Q1) The U.S.invasion of Canada in the War of 1812
A)allowed the Americas to claim the Dakotas,Idaho,and Montana.
B)ensured that Quebec would remain independent from the rest of Canada.
C)was the key event in ensuring the American victory over the British.
D)was repelled.
E)resulted in a humiliating defeat for the Canadians and long-standing hatred of the U.S.
Q2) By the 1840s,westward expansion was well under way in the United States,and many spoke of a "manifest destiny" to occupy all of North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Examine the political history of Latin America in the nineteenth century.Who were the important leaders and what were their goals? Why would political stability be such a challenge?
Q4) What factors led to La Reforma,the reform movement in Mexico? What was the ultimate outcome of this conflict?
Q5) What fate befell the natives of North America in the nineteenth century? Of what significance were the battles of the Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee?
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Chapter 28: The Building of Global Empires
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Q1) Why were the great powers less interested in the Pacific islands for most of the nineteenth century? Why did that attitude change in the later part of the century?
Q2) The Monroe Doctrine
A)ensured that neither the Europeans nor the Americans would ever interfere in western hemispheric affairs.
B)opened Japan to U.S.trade.
C)gave the British an inroad into New Zealand.
D)worked as a justification for U.S.intervention in western hemispheric affairs.
E)handed the Philippines over to the United States.
Q3) Examine the rise of the United States and Japan as imperialist powers.What were the main U.S.and Japanese goals? Were they different than the goals of the western Europeans? What areas did these two countries conquer?
Q4) Compare the British conquest of south Africa with that of Egypt and Sudan.
Q5) Where did the Japanese direct their ambitions as a new imperial power? How successful were they?
Q6) Examine the British control over India.How did it set the stage for later British expansion? In what ways did British control of India represent the best and worst of British colonial rule?
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Chapter 29: The Great War: The World in Upheaval
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Q1) The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was A)Lenin's inexperience in actually running a government.
B)the growing rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky.
C)the strain placed on the government by the unpopular alliance with Germany.
D)the public's desire for total victory,which clashed with the government's pacifistic approach.
E)its inability to satisfy popular demands for an end to the war and for land reform.
Q2) World War I boiled over from the assassination of A)Francis Joseph.
B)Nicholas II.
C)Alexander Kerensky.
D)Franz Ferdinand.
E)Otto von Bismarck.
Q3) Examine the causes of the Russian revolution.How was it tied to World War I? What were Lenin's main ideas? How did he transform Russia and the world?
Q4) Examine the picture of Lenin on page 573.What were the foundations of his philosophy? Could it be argued that Lenin was a child of World War I?
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Chapter 30: An Age of Anxiety
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Q1) During the Great Depression,most nations
A)cooperated globally to fight the problem,on a scale never seen before.
B)dramatically reduced tariffs in an effort to facilitate international trade.
C)expanded the money supply and undertook public works to provide jobs.
D)practiced economic nationalism.
E)pushed for an expansion of trade.
Q2) What are some indications of the "postwar pessimism" of the 1920s? Why did liberal values such as progress and democracy fall under attack at this time?
Q3) 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?
Q4) Describe the course of nationalization in economic development in the Soviet Union under Lenin.Explain war communism and why it was replaced by the New Economic Policy in 1921.
Q5) What caused thinkers such as Oswald Spengler to believe that European society was entering its final stage? Why was progress doubted?
Q6) Examine the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.What were his main ideas and goals? How did he transform Germany?
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Chapter 31: Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
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Q1) The May Fourth Movement
A)disguised the beginning of Stalin's great purge of his enemies.
B)was Lenin's shocking free market reform program.
C)perfectly expressed growing Japanese nationalism.
D)galvanized the Chinese against foreign interference.
E)dissolved Gandhi's nonviolent movement into a series of violent uprisings.
Q2) Manchukuo was the
A)Japanese nationalist leader who led Japan into World War II.
B)Korean leader who vainly fought to push the Japanese out of Korea.
C)Japanese puppet state in the former Manchuria.
D)code name for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
E)scene of the biggest naval battle in the Pacific during World War II.
Q3) The "Mukden incident"
A)started active warfare between Chinese nationalists and communists.
B)started the career of Mao Zedong.
C)resulted in the signing of the Sino-Russian Pact.
D)provided Germany with an excuse to send troops into Poland.
E)provided Japan with the fabricated excuse to send troops into Manchuria.
Q4) 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) Why didn't Britain and France object when Hitler and Mussolini violated the peace treaty? What were the consequences of their policy of appeasement?
Q2) Sometime during 1941,the Nazi leadership committed to the "final solution" of the Jewish question,a solution that entailed the attempted murder of every Jew living in Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the "final solution"? How did it represent Hitler's philosophy?
Q4) 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
Q5) Although many tried,women were not allowed to join the military services or work on factory assembly lines during World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the strategy of the Blitzkrieg.How were the Germans able to overwhelm continental Europe so quickly?
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Chapter 33: The Cold War and Decolonization
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Q1) In November 1947 the UN General Assembly announced a plan to create the independent state of Israel.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Examine the Islamic revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.In what ways did this revolution represent another step away from a bipolar political world? What would be the significance of fundamentalist Islam? In what ways did fundamentalist Islam become part of a growing nationalism?
Q3) Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika referred to A)openness.
B)"the great leap forward."
C)decentralizing the economy.
D)de-communism.
E)reeducation.
Q4) The leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization was A)Hosni Mubarak.
B)Yasser Arafat.
C)Gamal Abdel Nasser.
D)Anwar Sadat.
E)the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Chapter 34: A World Without Borders
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Q1) AIDS is the last stage in the progress of A)HIV.
B)cancer.
C)influenza.
D)pneumonia.
E)HAART.
Q2) The "little tigers" of Asia have been able to escape the cycle of economic colonialism that has haunted so many former colonies.What factors account for this reversal?
Q3) What threat does terrorism pose to the world,and what are some of the possible implications of the "war on terror"?
Q4) The Asian economic crisis began in 1997 where?
A)China
B)Thailand
C)Hong Kong
D)Japan
E)South Korea
Q5) How have rural populations in the developing world dealt with the increasing trend of urbanization? How has this affected migration patterns?
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