Global History Survey
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Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of major themes and developments in global history from the early human civilizations to the present. Students will examine the interconnectedness of societies through trade, migration, conflict, and cultural exchange across different regions and eras. Emphasizing comparative perspectives, the course explores the rise and fall of empires, the spread of religions, technological innovation, and the impacts of colonialism and globalization. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, learners will develop an understanding of the complex forces that have shaped our world, fostering critical thinking about historical change and continuity on a global scale.
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The World A History Volume 1 2nd Edition by Felipe Armesto
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Chapter 1: Out of the Ice: Peopling the Earth
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Q1) Homo erectus lived approximately
A) 4.5 million years ago.
B) 2.5 million years ago.
C) 1.5 million years ago.
D) 30,000 years ago.
Answer: C
Q2) The size of Ice Age communities was largely determined by
A) the resources of the area.
B) the number of predators within an area.
C) the types of tools that were available.
D) the number of men compared with women in a community.
Answer: A
Q3) What did Fernand Braudel mean by the "heavy baggage of culture"?
A) People tend to forget their past.
B) Civilization weighs heavily on a culture.
C) When people arrive in a new place, they want to be rid of the past.
D) When people move, they tend to bring familiar practices with them.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Out of the Mud: Farming and Herding After the
Ice Age
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Q1) Anthropological studies of modern cultures making the transition to agriculture in Botswana and Lesotho support the
A) abundance theory of the development of agriculture.
B) religious theory of the development of agriculture.
C) political theory of the development of agriculture.
D) population pressure theory of the development of agriculture.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a reason to connect the development of agriculture with religion?
A) use of animals for sacrifice
B) use of plants in religious ceremonies
C) stories of floods and natural disasters
D) use of alcohol
Answer: C
Q3) People first began to cultivate foods in the Nile Valley about
A) 12,000 years ago.
B) 9,000 years ago.
C) 7,000 years ago.
D) 2,000 years ago.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change and Developing States
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Q1) A key change brought on by the introduction of agriculture is
A) the development of leaders in a community.
B) the development of religion.
C) the development of technology.
D) the development of greater social and economic differences.
Answer: D
Q2) What was most significant about the conquest of the Yangtze River Valley during the period of the Shang dynasty for the resilience of Chinese culture?
A) The additional population was key to China's power.
B) It provided complementary environments to the state.
C) The Yangtze was richer than the Yellow River Valley.
D) It had little influence on the resilience of Chinese culture.
Answer: B
Q3) The Nile River provides Egypt with its rich agriculture by
A) limiting upstream boat traffic.
B) never flooding.
C) providing easy transport for crops.
D) flooding its banks.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: A Succession of Civilizations: Ambition and Instability
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Q1) Why did Chinese civilization continue after collapse of the Shang dynasty?
Q2) What fundamental problems led to the collapse of Harappan civilization?
Q3) Why did the Hittite civilization in Anatolia collapse so completely while civilization in the Nile River Valley continued?
Q4) Olmec religious practice is known to have included
A) bloodletting rituals.
B) devotional songs.
C) human sacrifice.
D) building temples.
Q5) The Rig Veda is
A) a narrative of the invasion of peoples from Central Asia into the Indus Valley.
B) written in an early form of Greek.
C) a collection of hymns and poems.
D) an epic story of war against a fabled city of gold.
Q6) The Rig Veda is believed to have been written down around
A) 1500 B.C.E.
B) 1200 B.C.E.
C) 800 B.C.E.
D) 600 B.C.E.
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Chapter 5: Rebuilding the World: Recoveries, New Initiatives, and
Their Limits
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Q1) The legacy and influence of Greek culture can be found in the modern world in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
A) in buildings in Europe and America that imitate the "classical" form of the Parthenon.
B) in the style of the Disney Corporation's headquarters in Burbank, California.
C) in the White House in Washington, D.C.
D) in the design of I.M. Pei's glass pyramid in front of the Louvre in Paris.
Q2) In Greek democracies,
A) all males were citizens.
B) only privileged males could vote.
C) privileged women had some political rights.
D) women and slaves could only vote when the men were away at war.
Q3) One of the most distinguishing features of Native American societies in the Mississippi River Valley was the building of A) pyramids.
B) a network of complex irrigation systems.
C) mounds.
D) ziggurats and temples.
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Chapter 6: The Great Schools
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Q1) Discuss and compare the invention and influence of Buddhism and Confucian thought on Indian and Chinese societies in the era around 500 B.C.E.
Q2) Confucius believed that human beings were essentially
A) evil.
B) good.
C) morally neutral.
D) sinful.
Q3) During the periods in which the Jews experienced conquest, dispersal, a return to Jerusalem, and foreign rule they relied on which of the following to preserve their culture?
A) a series of kings, each who defined new rules and rituals for worship
B) a covenant to one God who promised deliverance as a reward for loyalty and fidelity
C) incorporation of popular religious practices from neighboring kingdoms
D) Egyptian ideas about social organization and the afterlife
Q4) Why did a variety of philosophies flourish in the Mediterranean world?
Q5) What were three key areas in which axial age thinkers put forward new religious concepts?
Q6) In what ways were Greek, Chinese, and Indian science similar during this period?
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Chapter 7: The Great Empires
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Q1) Beyond conquest and military power, what elements of Persian rule enabled its leaders to build such a vast and successful empire? Discuss the role of diplomacy, politics, and trade in sustaining the Persian empire.
Q2) The Arthasastra emphasized Asoka's role as
A) a developer of the economy.
B) a war leader.
C) a religious leader.
D) a heroic defender of the country.
Q3) During the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.E., the Greek states were regularly
A) at peace because of Persian influence.
B) divided by the Persians.
C) united against the Persians.
D) at war over who would lead a united campaign against Persia.
Q4) What were shared characteristics of the early large states of Mesoamerica?
Q5) The earliest written evidence of the Silk Road comes from A) Herodotus.
B) Zhang Qian.
C) Livy.
D) Indian geographers.
Q6) How did the Persian Empire arise, and how was it governed?
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Chapter 8: Postimperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in
Eurasia and Africa, Ca 200 to 700 Ce
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Q1) During the eighth century C.E., many of the rulers of Japan were A) commoners.
B) women.
C) military leaders.
D) from the merchant class.
Q2) The land that played the key role of middleman for Chinese trade with India was A) Indonesia.
B) Japan.
C) Funan.
D) Paekche.
Q3) The decline of Tibet as a powerful kingdom happened
A) at the same time as the decline of the Tang dynasty.
B) during the Sui dynasty.
C) after the collapse of the Tang dynasty.
D) before the decline of the Tang dynasty.
Q4) What perennial problem did China share with Rome?
A) lack of educated people to serve in government
B) a primarily agricultural economy
C) an insecure method of succession for leaders
D) an inability to get foreigners to accept their culture
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Chapter 9: The Rise of World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
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Q1) Why does monastic practice not exist in the Islamic faith? What has taken the place of a monastic movement in Islam?
Q2) The concept of jihad attracted and helped lead which group of people to Islam?
A) Berbers
B) Georgians
C) Bulgarians
D) Turks
Q3) Of the foreign merchant communities in Guangzhou (Canton) in 879 C.E., the largest was
A) Buddhist.
B) Christian.
C) Muslim.
D) Jewish.
Q4) By the end of the eleventh century C.E., Buddhism was
A) becoming less popular in India.
B) being used by more Indian rulers to justify their rule.
C) developing more monasteries throughout India.
D) adopting the traditions of blood sacrifice to its practice in India.
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Q5) What were the essential elements needed for a world religion to be successful?
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Chapter 10: Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal
on Environmental Frontiers in the Late First Millenium
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Q1) Which of the following techniques did NOT lead to increased food production in the Islamic world?
A) new irrigation techniques
B) lower taxes
C) use of fertilizer
D) consolidation of small holdings into larger ones
Q2) What policies did the early rulers of Japan engage in that encouraged greater productivity?
Q3) How did religious missionaries act as agents of expansion in eighth- and ninth-century Europe?
Q4) How did environmental factors affect Polynesian expansion across the Pacific Ocean?
Q5) A staple food transplanted from South Asia to the Mediterranean world as a result of the Islamic Empire was
A) potatoes.
B) wheat.
C) rice.
D) yams.
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Chapter 11: Contending With Isolation: Ca 1000-1200
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Q1) The Eurasian people who were most involved in trade in East Africa during the twelfth century were
A) Arabs.
B) Europeans.
C) Chinese.
D) Indians.
Q2) One stated reason that the Cistercians razed forests and drove their flocks deep into the forests was
A) to develop those areas' wealth.
B) to fulfill one of the conditions for the end of the world.
C) to bring secular society to those wild areas.
D) to build ever more elaborate abbeys.
Q3) How did trade in the Indian Ocean connect peoples in Africa with Eurasia?
Q4) Ethiopian kings used an ideology of holy war to spread which religion throughout their growing kingdom?
A) Christianity
B) Islam
C) Buddhism
D) Hinduism
Q5) What are the benefits and drawbacks of cultural and economic isolation?
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Chapter 12: The Nomadic Frontiers: the Islamic World, Byzantium,
and China, Ca 1000-1200
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Q1) The Sufi writer al-Ghazali was important as a bridge in Islamic thinking and teaching because he
A) explained so clearly why Sunni orthodoxy was correct.
B) valued the faith of the poor as much as the learning of scholars in the mosques.
C) said that all points of view should be treated as equal.
D) was such a clear writer that he could make even the most complex issues crystal clear.
Q2) Did the crusades and the Iberian wars between Christians and Muslims lead to greater understanding between the two civilizations? Why or why not?
Q3) Byzantine culture maintained connections with the past and remained vibrant in the face of new challenges by
A) developing radical, new types of images and art that challenged past ideas and artistic notions.
B) only focusing on the Christian elements of the ancient past.
C) copying and analyzing texts and art from the ancient Greek past.
D) adding elements of neighboring traditions to the ancient Greek ones to create a new artistic form.
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Chapter 13: The World the Mongols Made
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Q1) One of the benefits that the Mongols brought to Russian lands was
A) lower taxes than had existed earlier.
B) the introduction of paper money.
C) new farming technologies and an end to serfdom.
D) defense against German adventurers.
Q2) Which of the following were aspects of the Mongol military forces that were key to their success over their enemies?
A) technological advantages
B) psychological warfare
C) adaptability
D) All the answers are correct.
Q3) The African Sahel probably did NOT become a corridor of communication comparable to the Eurasian steppe because of its
A) poverty.
B) lack of adequate rivers.
C) mountains.
D) richness.
Q4) What role did the Mongol Peace play in the development of areas beyond Mongol rule?
Q5) What were the methods the Mongols used in order to conquer their empire?
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Chapter 14: The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the
Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century
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Q1) King Hayan Wuruk was referred to by his subjects as
A) Shiva incarnate.
B) Muhammad's follower.
C) Christ's blessed.
D) both a and b
Q2) Which of the following key resources for trade came from Southeast Asia?
A) cotton, timber, and mace
B) nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon
C) cloves, oranges, and pepper
D) cinnamon, potatoes, and timber
Q3) How was West Africa affected by the plague?
Q4) As a result of the climatic changes during the early fourteenth century,
A) the Thames River in England flooded.
B) Europeans gave up their earlier explorations of the Atlantic.
C) Danish colonies in Iceland were abandoned.
D) state building in Eastern Europe ended.
Q5) Why do societies seek to record historical origins and how does the evidence of weather and disease help historians to create these histories? Consider in particular the effects of the little ice age and the plague.
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Chapter 15: Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
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Q1) Explain the role of religion in Russian expansionism. How was Moscow a "Third Rome"? How did this compare to the role of religion in Ottoman expansion?
Q2) Zhu Yuanzhang was
A) the charismatic founder of the Maitreya cult.
B) a prominent member of the Confucian bureaucratic establishment.
C) the founder of the Ming dynasty.
D) None of the answers is correct.
Q3) Compare and contrast the causes and limitations of expansion of the empires of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas.
Q4) A key reason for the growth of imperial systems in the Americas was A) increased trade and competition between the rising empires in Central and South America.
B) rapid demographic growth.
C) new military technologies.
D) a desire to spread religious belief.
Q5) How did geography and culture affect the development of imperial expansion in Eurasia during the fifteenth century? Explore at least one specific example in Western Eurasia and one in Eastern Eurasia.
Q6) Explain the role of peasants in the establishment of the Ming dynasty.
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