History of Civilization II
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Course Introduction
History of Civilization II explores the major social, political, economic, and cultural developments from the 16th century to the present day. Emphasizing global perspectives, the course examines key events such as the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, industrialization, revolutions, colonialism, world wars, decolonization, and the emergence of modern societies. Students will analyze the interactions among different civilizations, the causes and consequences of historical change, and the ways ideas and technologies have shaped the modern world. Through critical reading, primary sources, and collaborative discussions, this course fosters a deeper understanding of the complex forces that have influenced the course of modern history.
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The Essential World History Volume II Since 1500 7th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). New Netherlands
Q2) By the early 1400s a growing percentage of the Asian spice trade was being transported
A)by camel caravans across Arabia.
B)in European ships,particularly Dutch and Portuguese. C)in Muslim ships.
D)in Chinese ships as evidenced by the voyages of Zheng He. E)across the Silk Road from China.
Q3) Is morality a good measure for historical phenomena¾why or why not? Explain your position with concrete examples.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Amerigo Vespucci
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Massachusetts Bay Company
Q6) What factors made control of the Indian Ocean difficult for the Portuguese during the 16<sup>th</sup> and 17<sup>th</sup> centuries?
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Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Dutch West India Company and Dutch East India Company
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Modern Devotion
Q2) Which of the following was not a result of the development of printing in Europe?
A)Research and learning increased.
B)Standard textbooks were developed.
C)More people began to read.
D)Chinese influence over European affairs rose sharply because of their invention of paper.
E)It played a major role in the Protestant Reformation.
Q3) Discuss,using examples,the impact of political,economic,and other non-religious factors as causes of the sixteenth century religious reformations.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Palace of Versailles
Q5) Luther's reforms included all of the following except A)clerical celibacy.
B)a national church in Germany.
C)new religious services,including Bible reading and preaching.
D)a married Protestant clergy.
E)salvation by faith.
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) The sixteenth-century Hindi version of the retelling of the Ramayana was written by A)Tulsidas.
B)Gandhi.
C)Krishna.
D)Rajasthani.
E)Heraclion.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Akbar
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). sultan
Q4) The Ottoman Turks preceded the Seljuk Turks. A)True B)False
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "gunpowder empires"
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Tulsidas' Ramcaritimanas
Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "Akhbar style"
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
18<sup>th</sup>-Century Population Explosion
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). East India Company/Canton
Q3) Compare and contrast Tokugawa's response to the European incursions in the sixteenth-eighteenth century with that of Qing China.What were the similarities and what were the differences?
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Gia Long and the Nguyen dynasty
Q5) The peasant revolt that brought down the preoccupied Ming Dynasty,and precipitated the ascension to control of the Manchus,was led by the disgruntled postal worker,
A)Yuan Shi-Kai.
B)Li Zicheng.
C)Zheng Chenggong.
D)Koxinga.
E)Kangxi Lon.
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the "Forbidden City"
Q7) How did the Tokugawa "Great Peace" work?
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Committee of Public Safety and Maximilien Robespierre
Q2) Which of the following did Copernicus not reject?
A)circular planetary orbits
B)a stationary earth in the center of the universe
C)a solar orbit around the earth
D)geocentric planetary orbits
E)heavenly spheres
Q3) The intellectuals of the Enlightenment advocated the
A)creation of a new religion of sciences.
B)use of the scientific method to foster progress toward a "better" society.
C)application of religious precepts to all knowledge.
D)inversion of human development.
E)abandonment of reason for the purpose of developing human knowledge.
Q4) The Estates-General was convened in 1789 in order to deal with the A)invasion of Silesia.
B)near bankruptcy of the French Treasury.
C)grievances of the French peasantry.
D)discontent in the French colonies.
E)Louis XVI's demand for more power.
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization
and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Great Britain depended almost entirely upon foreign investment to support its Industrial Revolution at the beginning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The new,industrial middle class was
A)actually not new at all,but was a propaganda term created by Napoleon III. B)the term used to describe the European proletariat after 1810.
C)composed of people who were often the children of industrial workers or rural gentry. D)composed of increasingly wealthy individuals who wanted political status and power. E)equivalent to the older landed class.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Emperor William II of Germany and Germany's "place in the sun"
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). France's Third Republic
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "Follower" Economies
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). joint stock investment banks
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Francisco Madero
Q2) Romanticism emphasized
A)a commitment to group solidarity.
B)a focus on feeling,emotion,and imagination.
C)fascination with the future.
D)the common and the every day.
E)calmness and rationality.
Q3) In nineteenth century Latin America,the basis of wealth,social prestige,and political power was
A)birth.
B)European ancestry.
C)trade and manufacturing.
D)land.
E)military power.
Q4) Is it accurate to say that the advent of mass society had little or no impact on the lives of the working class,even though it had a major influence on the numbers and position of the middle class? Why or why not?
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Albert Einstein
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q1) The Great Trek
A)was ordered by the French government.
B)took place before the Boers encountered the Zulus.
C)was a Zulu march led by their ruler named Shaka.
D)was the northeastward advance of the Boers after the British take-over of the Cape Colony.
E)took place as a result of Khoisan and Bantu military clashes.
Q2) By 1900,the seizure of what region was included in the Indochinese Union?
A)Algeria
B)Thailand
C)Cambodia
D)the Sumatra archipelago
E)Burma
Q3) The Sepoy Mutiny was caused by
A)the traditional hostility between Muslims and the Buddhist majority.
B)British tax policies in India.
C)British racial policies in India.
D)animal fat and lard that was on the rifle cartridges used by the Sepoy troops,which upset both Hindu and Muslim soldiers.
E)friction between the Sepoy troops and their Mongol and European commanders.
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Port Arthur
Q2) In the 1890s,the Boxers expelled the Russians and the Germans from the Liaodong and Shandong peninsulas,but failed to drive Britain from Hong Kong. A)True B)False
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Hiratsuka Raicho's Blue Stockings
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Wang Tao v.Zhang Zhidong
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Revolutionary Alliance/Tongmenghui
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Sun Yat-sen
Q7) How would you appraise the nature of the Meiji Restoration? Was it,on balance,more innovative or more conservative? Why? Was it truly "from above"?
Q8) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "Sat-Cho" alliance
Q9) At what point did the fall of the Manchus become inevitable? Why then? Page 11
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act
Q2) In the Great Depression,most democratic governments followed the classical liberal remedy by lowering wages and raising tariffs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The United States
A)entered the war immediately after a number of Americans died when the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.
B)had,in President Wilson,a strong foe of total war mobilization.
C)sent its troops to China during the civil war there.
D)took an idealistic stance at the Paris Peace Conference.
E)joined the League of Nations in spite of Woodrow Wilson's opposition.
Q4) Because of post-war economic growth,the great majority of women retained their jobs after World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Battles of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes
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Chapter 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939
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Q1) By the end of the 1920s,the Comintern
A)had been disbanded,after Wahhabi leaders had complained about its intrusion in Turkish domestic politics.
B)had achieved its greatest,if limited,success in China. C)had been most successful in Islamic-Marxist areas.
D)was absorbed into Aramco in 1933.
E)attempted to blend Marxism,Lenin's concept of the five revolutionary stages,and the writing of Mao Zedong into its "Basic Revolution Precepts Catalog."
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Northern Expedition and the Long March
Q3) The Japanese term for the industrial and financial conglomerates that controlled much of the nation's industry was A)autarkas.
B)kokutai.
C)genro.
D)zaibatsu.
E)modan boyu.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Republic of Turkey
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War II
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Q1) Which of the following was not true about Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?
A)It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life.
B)It never achieved the totality of power,in repression and media control that the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did.
C)It tried to involve all Italian youth in a program of indoctrination,but achieved only limited success in that area.
D)It maintained a program of traditional values in regard to women,and mutual acceptance and coexistence with the Catholic Church.
E)It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups.
Q2) Because of its military-dominated dictatorship,the Great Depression had less impact on Japan than in the democratic states of Great Britain and the United States. A)True
B)False
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Sudentenland
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "Night Wiches"
Q5) Why did Japan ultimately fail in its campaign of "Asia for the Asians"?
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program
Q2) All of the following are true about the Vietnam or Second Indochinese War except A)it was the second major conflict there since the end of World War II.
B)the role of nationalism was highly significant in the conflict.
C)Lyndon Johnson significantly increased American involvement in the conflict.
D)the United States failed to achieve its ultimate objective in the war.
E)the war was the second American victory on the Asian mainland since 1942.
Q3) Ho Chi Minh
A)was Mao Zedong's only major rival for leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
B)had concluded an agreement for Vietnamese independence in 1946 with the French,but then became engaged in a civil war against militant Buddhists.
C)led a multiparty coalition in an anti-colonialist struggle against the French in the 1940s and early 1950s.
D)sought exile in China after his defeat in Vietnam in 1954.
E)became a democratic politician in North Viet Nam.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). détente
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Great Leap Forward
Q2) Mikhail Gorbachev
A)was the well-placed son of the head of the state oil-refining corporation.
B)was picked for political leadership because of his record as a KGB data interpreter.
C)had moved up rapidly since his appointment to the Party Central Committee in 1978.
D)had spent many years in the gulag.
E)had supported Mao Zedong against Nikita Khrushchev.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Deng Xiaoping's "black cat,white cat"
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "taking the capitalist road"
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Mikhail Gorbachev
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Mao Zedong's "New Democracy"
Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Hungary's "communism with a capitalist face-lift"
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) How have Marxist leaders and movements fared in Latin America since 1960? In particular,examine the post-1960 history of Cuba.To what degree have nationalism and Marxism been blended in that nation?
Q2) Popular culture
A)is,to a significant degree,created in the United Kingdom and then,in part at least,spread to other Western areas and beyond.
B)has proven unexpectedly resistant to exploitation by commercial interests.
C)became,in the area of sports,highly commercialized during the second half of the twentieth century.
D)is mainly Asian in emphasis.
E)has had little influence on most of the world's peoples.
Q3) Richard Nixon
A)pursued a "northern strategy," making civil rights a central plank in his political platform.
B)ordered the killing of four students at Ohio's Kent State University by army soldiers.
C)refused to end the Vietnam War.
D)used illegal methods to obtain information from his political rivals.
E)made minor mistakes,but he was careful not to lie to Congress or the people.
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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Q1) The tragic situation in the Central African states of Rwanda and Burundi was the conflict between
A)Christians and Muslims.
B)animists and shambas.
C)communists and capitalists.
D)Tutsi and Hutus.
E)rural and urban inhabitants.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Iran's Mohammad Khatemi and Muhmmad Ahmadinejad
Q3) The United Arab Republic was the result of the unification of Iraq and Iran.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Islamic women and the veil and chador
Q5) In 1990,Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded Saudi Arabia,an action that led to "Operation Desert Storm."
A)True
B)False
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Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
David Ben Gurion
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Hong Kong and Guangdong province
Q2) The Japanese government has been criticized at home and abroad for not accepting responsibility and for not apologizing for atrocities committed during World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How did colonialism end in Southeast Asia? Why not earlier? Why did it occur earlier in some places than in others? Give examples.
Q4) Australia and New Zealand
A)technically belong to the vast Asian continent.
B)historically identified both culturally and politically with the West.
C)are not part of the British Commonwealth.
D)receive next to no immigration from East or Southeast Asia because of the substantial language barrier.
E)look to Europe and the U.S.for nearly 80% of their export market.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Big and Little Tigers
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