Global History to 1800 Test Bank
Course Introduction
Global History to 1800 offers an exploration of the major developments, interactions, and transformations that shaped societies across the world from ancient times to the dawn of the nineteenth century. This course examines key themes such as the rise and fall of civilizations, the spread of religions and empires, trade networks like the Silk Road, technological innovations, and the cultural exchanges linking Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Through diverse sources and comparative perspectives, students will gain a deeper understanding of how global connections and local histories influenced one another, laying the foundations for the modern world.
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World History Volume I To 1800 7th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) The Nile delta,about one hundred miles from the Mediterranean,was called
A) Greater Egypt.
B) Lower Egypt.
C) Upper Egypt.
D) Central Egypt.
E) Axum.
Answer: B
Q2) The Assyrian army
A) was renowned for its ability to besiege enemy cities.
B) could deploy only a few thousand troops in major campaigns.
C) customarily used diplomacy and negotiation in its largely peaceful campaigns.
D) was unable to conquer Egypt.
E) defeated the Persians on the banks of the Tigris River.
Answer: A
Q3) "Sea Peoples"
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) The principal economic basis of Assyrian life was manufacturing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) bodhi
Answer: Bodhi is a term that comes from the Pali and Sanskrit languages, which are ancient languages of India. In Buddhism, bodhi refers to the understanding possessed by a Buddha regarding the true nature of things. It is often translated as "enlightenment" or "awakening" and signifies the spiritual awakening or insight that a person achieves when they have understood the ultimate reality, transcending ignorance and suffering.
The concept of bodhi is central to various Buddhist traditions and is considered the ultimate goal that practitioners aspire to through meditation, ethical conduct, and the development of wisdom. The attainment of bodhi is associated with the cessation of the cycles of rebirth and suffering (samsara) and the experience of nirvana, which is the ultimate peace and freedom from all attachments and desires.
The most famous instance of bodhi is the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama, who became known as the Buddha, or "the awakened one," after he attained profound insight under the Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, India. This event is celebrated in Buddhism as a pivotal moment in spiritual history.
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) The "well field system"
A) was an animistic belief designed to protect the health of the land.
B) allowed peasants plots of their own to work, as well as working the lands of their lords.
C) was developed only in the first century, in response to the rise of socialist thought.
D) was a water-diversion system which insured that every farm had the amount of water it needed.
E) was originally developed by Aryan invaders to improve agricultural productivity in western China.
Answer: B
Q2) In early Chinese history,villages were organized by nuclear family units rather than by clans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Great Wall
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Mandate of Heaven
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) Mycenaeans
Q2) Serfs in Sparta were known as hoplites.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Iliad and Odyssey
Q4) Thera
Q5) The earliest Aegean civilization was located
A) in the Peloponnesus.
B) on the island of Delos.
C) in Attica.
D) on Crete.
E) in Macedonia.
Q6) Sparta
Q7) polis
Q8) It was Pericles who claimed that Athens was the "school of Greece."
A)True
B)False
Q9) Aristotle
Q10) battle of Chaeronea
Q11) oligarchy and democracy
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Q1) Twelve Tables
Q2) Jesus of Nazareth
Q3) Rome was
A) located in the valley of Attica.
B) located on the plain of Latium.
C) in legend, defended by the extreme bravery of Horatius.
D) an ally of Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
E) founded by the Etruscans.
Q4) "the good emperors"
Q5) Virgil's Aeneid
Q6) What role did Christianity play in the Late Roman Empire? Was it,in any real way,the cause of its fall? Might it have even prolonged the life of the Empire? Why or why not?
Q7) Early Roman legends and tales
A) served no purpose beyond entertainment.
B) were incorporated into Livy's historical accounts to teach moral values and virtues.
C) closely resembled those of China during the Zhou Dynasty.
D) owed nothing to Etruscan or Greek influences.
E) disappeared when Rome was sacked by the Celts.
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Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) Among the mounted nomads who came to dominate much of the southwestern plains of North America after 1500 C.E.were the
A) Ute and the Mohawk.
B) Apache and Navajo.
C) Cree and Shoshone.
D) Anasazi and Arawak.
E) both b and c
Q2) Amazon River
Q3) Itzamna
Q4) El Niño
Q5) Most of the Aztec population belonged to large kinship groups called A) texcocos.
B) chinampas.
C) calpulli.
D) quipu.
E) jatis.
Q6) Tehuacán valley
Q7) "The lack of extensive written records has seriously inhibited extensive knowledge of New World societies." Discuss,pro and con,with examples.
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
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Q1) Saladin was the Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The umma was the religious leader of Islam.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Fatimids and Cairo
Q4) Hasan al-Sabahh and "assassins"
Q5) Mu'awiya and Umayyad Caliphate and Damascus
Q6) The great mosque constructed in Jerusalem at the site of the old temple is the A) Dome of the Rock.
B) Alhambra.
C) Hegira Sophia.
D) Cordoba Mosque.
E) the Blue Mosque.
Q7) In the early 700s,Charles Martel defeated the Spanish Arabs at the Battle of Tours,in southern France.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) African slavery
Q2) Describe African societies in terms of urban life,family relationships,and the parts played by women and the institution of slavery in their social fabrics.
Q3) Congo River
Q4) The Bantu languages feature a "click" sound.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Swahili comes from the Arabic sahel,which means "forest" or "jungle."
A)True
B)False
Q6) the Khoi and the San
Q7) Nok culture
Q8) Kilwa
Q9) In your opinion,other than perhaps the Egyptian pyramids,what were the most significant architectural accomplishments in Africa,and why? Be specific.
Q10) Rhapta
Q11) Ethiopia
Q12) Bantu
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Q13) Swahili
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) According to the text,the penetration of the islands of the Pacific was one of the greatest maritime feats of human history.Using outside sources,discuss the extent of this migration and the manner in which it was accomplished.Focus on the continuity of Malayo-Polynesian culture in the course of this migration
Q2) To what degree was religion a major influence in Indian art and literature? Cite representative examples from Hinduism,Buddhism,and Islam to illustrate and support your viewpoint.
Q3) The rock temple at Ellora in central India is comparable to the Christian churches carved out of solid rock in Ethiopia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat
Q5) Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon
Q6) The Kushan peoples
A) were, originally, inhabitants of Mesopotamia.
B) had been herder-nomads until they moved into the Irrawaddy Valley.
C) were of Indo-European background, driven out of Central Asia by the Xiongnu.
D) settled in Sri Lanka.
E) defeated the Aryan invaders of India.
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) Pure Land sect
Q2) Why were the Mongols able to amass an empire,and what were the main characteristics of their rule in China? What was the impact of the "Pax Mongolica" on Eurasian societies in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?
Q3) Although the earlier Tang dynasty based the civil service examinations exclusively upon Confucian texts,the later Song also included both Daoist and Buddhist texts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Wu Zhao/Empress Wu
Q5) Temuchin/Genghis Khan
Q6) Li Yuan
Q7) Discuss the impact of the northern nomad peoples upon Chinese society in the late Tang and Song eras.Be specific.
Q8) Song Taizu
Q9) Zhenghe
Q10) Jurchen
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Q11) blast furnace and steel,gunpowder,paper currency,and the abacus
Q12) Song dynasty
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) shoen
Q2) The four Japanese islands are
A) Honshu, Luzon, Hainan, and Guam.
B) Kyushu, Taiwan, Ryuku, and Kamchatka.
C) Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Honshu.
D) Okinawa, Tinian, Ryuku, and Diego Garcia.
E) Olane, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Shikoku.
Q3) Jimmu
Q4) The two early Japanese capitals were ____ and ____.
A) Edo and Kamakura.
B) Edo and Ashikaga.
C) Nara and Edo.
D) Heian and Kamakura.
E) Nara and Heian.
Q5) haiku
Q6) Amaterasu
Q7) Kyoto
Q8) Kamakura shogunate
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Q10) daimyo
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) Romanesque and barrel vaults
Q2) The appearance of the violent and destructive Mongol Empire ended all trade between the West and China.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Monasticism in medieval Europe
A) was entirely a male area of activity.
B) involved an egalitarian governance structure.
C) included women, many of whom belonged to royal families
D) was based upon the model established by St. Basil.
E) was made up of hermit monks.
Q4) Which of the following was accomplished by medieval Christian monasteries?
A) They launched an early "feminist" movement.
B) They served as centers of learning.
C) They played a major military role for their religion.
D) They enforced the tenets of the Scriptures, often by force.
E) They were under the rule of the princeps.
Q5) Gregory VII and the Investiture Controversy
Q6) Holy Roman Empire
Q7) Urban II and Council of Clermont
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the
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Q1) gunpowder
Q2) The papacy of Boniface VIII saw
A) the Roman Church supreme over all of Christendom.
B) Boniface forced to flee in the face of a French takeover.
C) Boniface successfully excommunicating and destroying the power of France's Philip.IV.
D) the papacy moving to Germany after Boniface's death.
E) the Church weakened as a result of the Black Death.
Q3) Bulgars
Q4) An Italian intellectual who hunted down ancient manuscripts and emphasized classical Latin was
A) Sforza.
B) Bruni.
C) Petrarch.
D) Chrysoloras.
E) Ficino.
Q5) Michelangelo
Q6) Procopius
Q7) iconoclasm
Q8) Aragon and Castile
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) How did technological advancements,the rise of stronger governments,and economic growth cause European societies to become involved in maritime expansion in the 1400s and 1500s? Why then?
Q2) An influential cargo brought back to Portugal from the West African coastal voyages in 1441 was A) silver. B) gold.
C) slaves.
D) spices.
E) ivory.
Q3) Kilwa,Sofala,and Mombasa
Q4) Dutch West India Company and Dutch East India Company
Q5) Bartolomé de Las Casas
Q6) Why was it Western Europe rather than China,the Muslim world,or some other non-Western society that effected the globalization era of the sixteenth century? What prevented China and the well-organized Islamic states from achieving an ascendancy?
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Q7) Compare and contrast slavery in Africa before the sixteenth century to African slavery after the arrival of the Europeans.What are the continuities,if any,and what are the differences?
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) Ulrich Zwingli
Q2) Frederick William the Great Elector
Q3) "new monarchies"
Q4) What were the most significant aspects of the witchcraft craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why was it so widespread? Why did it decline?
Q5) In the fifteenth century,the Italians-especially the Venetians-in their commercial empires were only rivaled by
A) England.
B) the Hanseatic League
C) the Holy Roman Empire
D) the Byzantine Empire.
E) Spain.
Q6) Machiavelli's The Prince
Q7) The artistic movement that dominated the Western artistic world during the seventeenth century was known as Neo-classical,inspired by the legacy of Greece and Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q8) "justification by faith"
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) Mughal decline was most probably not caused by the A) fall of the Safavid dynasty.
B) rise in local power and wealth.
C) return of Muslim strictness after the rule of Shah Jahan ended.
D) effect of the European presence on the subcontinent.
E) draining of the imperial treasury.
Q2) Discuss the successes and failures of the Mughal dynasty in ruling India.Compare those successes and failures to Ottoman rule.Which dynasty was most successful,and why?
Q3) All of the following are correct about India's zamindars
A) they were local officials.
B) they were paid by international trade revenues collected by the Mughal emperor.
C) their salaries were from land taxes paid by peasants.
D) some were Hindus but most were Moslems.
E) they had both civilian and military retainers, thus had considerable local power.
Q4) What were the significant cultural contributions of Ottoman art?
Q5) devshirme
Q6) Battles of Mohács and Vienna
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) What were the most significant developments of the reigns of Kangxi,Yongzheng,and Qianlong?
Q2) How did Qing China and Tokugawa Japan respond to the coming of the Europeans,and what explains the differences? What impact did European contacts have on these two East Asian civilizations through the end of the eighteenth century?
Q3) The modern-day name for the capital city of the Tokugawa shogunate is
A) Edo.
B) Tokyo.
C) Osaka.
D) Nagasaki.
E) Sapporo.
Q4) The purpose of the Qing system known as dyarchy was A) to maintain the Chinese exclusion from Manchu rule in China. B) to assure the isolation of the Chinese from the Manchus in China.
C) a mechanism for the sharing of administrative positions by Manchus and Chinese. D) to assure the Manchu administrative dictatorship of China. E) to keep northern and southern China balanced politically.
Q5) Nagasaki
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Isaac Newton was an inspiration for the Enlightenment in his contention that the world and everything in it worked like a giant machine.
A)True
B)False
Q2) By the end of the eighteenth century,serfdom had come to an end in eastern Europe,but it still existed in western Europe,and was to prove one of the causes of the French Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare and contrast the Seven Years' War with the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon.Did the nature of war change? The causes? Motives? Tactics? Results? Be specific.
Q4) The philosophe who praised the checks and balances of the British constitution was A) Diderot.
B) Voltaire.
C) Montesquieu.
D) Rousseau.
E) Descartes.
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