History of Civilization II Solved Exam Questions
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History of Civilization II explores the major social, political, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped human societies from the 16th century to the present. This course examines significant events such as the rise and fall of empires, revolutions, industrialization, global conflicts, and the evolution of modern nation-states. Through the analysis of historical texts, artifacts, and diverse perspectives, students will gain a deeper understanding of how global interactions, technological advancements, and ideological movements influenced the course of world history and continue to impact contemporary society.
Recommended Textbook Voyages in World History Volume 2 3rd Edition by Valerie
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Chapter 1: Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic
World,1400 1600
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Q1) Tenochtitlan
Answer: Answers will vary.
Q2) The main reason the Inca conquered neighboring lands was because they
A)wanted the crops and goods such lands produced.
B)believed it was their religious obligation.
C)wanted a larger population.
D)saw such lands as military threats.
E)needed land for their growing population.
Answer: A
Q3) Although Cabral claimed Brazil for the Portuguese,few Portuguese migrated to the area because
A)they feared hostile native peoples.
B)the area was infected with malaria and other tropical diseases.
C)no important resources were found that would have invited further development.
D)Portuguese claims were negated by the Treaty of Tordesillas.
E)the Portuguese refused to allow the introduction of the encomienda system.
Answer: C
Q4) caravel
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Chapter 2: Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia,1500 1700
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Q1) As a young ruler,the Wanli Emperor helped turn back an invasion from A)Afghanistan.
B)India.
C)Mongolia.
D)Tibet.
E)Japan.
Answer: E
Q2) From Ricci's point of view,the most important thing China lacked was
A)a modern language.
B)an aggressive leadership.
C)religious truth.
D)control of the elite class.
E)Western dress.
Answer: C
Q3) Grand Canal
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Q4) Korea failed to establish a stable political system until the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Religion, Politics, and the Balance of Power in
Western Eurasia, 1500 1750
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Q1) Prussia's capital was
A)Paris.
B)Vienna.
C)Berlin.
D)London.
E)Moscow.
Answer: C
Q2) Tens of thousands of ____ were slain during the St.Bartholomew's Day massacre.
A)Prussians
B)Catholics
C)Huguenots
D)Jews
E)Armenians
Answer: C
Q3) The Protestant Reformation was supported by the Habsburg dynasty as well as by riches coming from the Americas.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Empires, Colonies, and Peoples of the Americas,
1600 1750
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Q1) What was true of English interactions with Amerindians?
A)The English enslaved them and made them work on colonial farms.
B)The English formed cooperative relationships of trade and assistance with local Indian groups.
C)The English practiced an exclusionary policy toward the Amerindians.
D)The English taught native peoples how to cultivate tobacco.
E)The English comfortably intermarried with native people.
Q2) Palmares was a community of
A)a mixture of runaway slaves and Amerindian groups.
B)Amerindian groups.
C)American-born Portuguese.
D)Amerindian-Portuguese groups.
E)runaway slaves.
Q3) How did the settlement of New England differ from that of Virginia?
Q4) Palmares
Q5) Brazil
Q6) Economically,Portuguese exploration in the Americas was a disaster as there was little agricultural and mineral potential.
A)True
B)False Page 6
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Chapter 5: The Atlantic System: Africa, the Americas, and Europe, 1550
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Q1) Slaves traveling on the Middle Passage were required to participate in what physical activity as exercise?
A)Calisthenics
B)Tossing a ball with crew members
C)Jumping jacks
D)Beating other slaves
E)Dancing
Q2) Absentee ownership became common on Caribbean plantations,and overseeing slave labor was sometimes performed by
A)loyal slaves who received better living conditions and wages.
B)imported mercenary soldiers.
C)lower-status European immigrants.
D)the master's private army.
E)Jesuit priests and the members of their Amerindian schools.
Q3) Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Q4) In studying the Atlantic system of slavery,historians discount Equiano as a reputable source.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Timbuktu
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Chapter 6: Empires in Early Modern Asia, 1650 1837
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Q1) female infanticide
Q2) Chinese cultural influences on Japan included all the following EXCEPT
A)Shintoism.
B)clothing.
C)writing.
D)Buddhism.
E)Confucianism.
Q3) The Manchu Qing,concerned with consolidating power,prohibited Confucianism and Confucian-trained officials in the bureaucracy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) After the sixteenth century,Japan was marked by A)a degree of isolationism.
B)its status as a tributary of any nation.
C)refusal to become an empire-building nation.
D)independence from any foreign power.
E)its own distinctive political, economic, and cultural systems.
Q5) Emperor Kangxi
Q6) Taiwan
Q7) Kowtow
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Chapter 7: European Science and the Foundations of
Modern Imperialism, 1600 1820
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Q1) Carl Linnaeus
Q2) The problem of how to determine a ship's position on an east-west axis is called problem of
A)rationality.
B)longitude
C)biological diffusion.
D)insularity.
E)enlightenment.
Q3) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759?1797)
Q4) British settlements in Australia affected the original inhabitants in all of these ways EXCEPT
A)the natives did not have the military ability or political organization to resist British incursions into their territories.
B)the natives eventually became an extinct group of peoples.
C)the natives became a subclass in cities.
D)the natives were devastated by European plagues.
E)the natives retreated into remote areas to escape British influences.
Q5) Royal Society
Q6) ethnography
Q7) Enlightenment Page 10
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Chapter 8: Revolutions in the West, 1750 1830
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Q1) The American Constitution provided an example of A)an enlightened monarchy.
B)a classless society.
C)limited yet effective government.
D)constitutional monarchy.
E)laissez faire.
Q2) As Simón Bolívar looked at the city of Rome from atop a hill,he thought that as great as the Roman empire had once been,____ had never been one of its goals.
A)humanity
B)democracy
C)equality
D)religious tolerance
E)laissez faire
Q3) The Proclamation of 1763
Q4) After the French and Indian War,the British were faced with A)Indian raids in the Newfoundland area.
B)problems caused by American attacks on Canadian territory.
C)American attacks on British forts on the Great Lakes.
D)Indian uprisings in the Ohio Valley.
E)a possible alliance between the French and Americans over Canada.
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Chapter 9: The Industrial Revolution and European Politics,
1765 1880
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Q1) By the 1830s,the British textile industry had been A)mechanized.
B)fully involved in the putting-out system.
C)centralized.
D)developed in India so that investors would not have to pay taxes on profits.
E)mechanized and consolidated in factories
Q2) coke
Q3) Why were the ideals of the 1848 uprising perplexing to the political elites of the time?
A)The destruction of the ideals of the French Revolution was feared.
B)The policies of reform might endanger stability and continuity.
C)The ideals of 1848 made war imminent between nations.
D)The rise of Prussia as an economic power was at stake.
E)The foundation of mercantilism would be destroyed.
Q4) Referring to the feature,"Movement of Ideas Through Primary Sources: Religious Leaders Comment on Science and Progress," and specifically to the "Lecture on Teaching and Learning," comment on how you agree or disagree with Sayyid Jamal ad-din al-Afghani.
Q5) cotton gin
Q6) Muhammad Ali
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Chapter 10: The Challenge of Modernity in China, Japan, and India, 1800 1910
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Q1) The British used ____ issues to justify their continued presence in India.
A)class
B)regional
C)economic
D)religious
E)the promise of reform
Q2) How was the traveler in this chapter a nonconformist to the Japanese sense of tradition?
A)He rejected Japan's preference for Dutch learning.
B)He dedicated his life to his lord.
C)He considered Western science important.
D)He placed emphasis on dependence and subservience.
E)He saw empowerment in religion.
Q3) Durbar Procession
Q4) The illustrations accompanying the feature,"Visual Evidence in Primary Sources: The Boxer Rebellion: American and French Views," use a variety of symbolism.Analyzing each symbolic theme highlighted in the reading,discuss how race,imperialism,and especially competition among major powers are shown.
Q5) Treaty of Nanjing
Q6) Opium Wars
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Chapter 11: State Building and Social Change in the
Americas, 1830 1910
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Q1) Lower Canada's cultural differences involved
A)political differences between Upper and Lower Canada.
B)ethnic differences between French and Amerindians.
C)ethnic differences between French and British Canadians.
D)stress between the United States and Canada in the Great Lakes region.
E)limited trade between the United States and Canada, based on laws established by British Parliament.
Q2) Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Q3) Emiliano Zapata
Q4) "dependency complex"
Q5) Explain the term "dependency complex," and assess how well it describes the economic development of Latin American nations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Q6) According to Alexis de Tocqueville,how was geography an important factor in the development of the United States? Do you agree with his assessment? Why or why not?
Q7) Andrew Jackson
Q8) Yucatán Rebellion
Q9) Napoleon III Page 16
Q10) Ghost Dance Movement
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Chapter 12: The New Imperialism in Africa and Southeast
Asia, 1830 1914
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Q1) Some of the most notorious abuses of native peoples were committed in the Congo by the ____,who reaped huge profits from rubber plantations.
A)French
B)Belgians
C)Germans
D)British
E)Spanish
Q2) What best describes the New Imperialism that emerged in the late nineteenth century?
A)Heightened competition between European states for African raw materials and markets
B)Industry-backed expansion of the slave trade
C)Economic quest for the best quality materials and finished goods
D)Increased exports of European raw material into Africa
E)Increased independence for African nations from European powers
Q3) Second Industrial Revolution
Q4) Yaa Asantewa's War
Q5) How did King Leopold symbolize the cruelest aspects of imperialism,as exploitation for pure profit?
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Chapter 13: War, Revolution, and Global Uncertainty,
1905 1928
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Q1) submarines
Q2) What territories remained a part of Russia after the revolution?
A)Finland
B)Lithuania
C)Poland
D)Prussia
E)Caucasus Mountains
Q3) With the acquisition of German East Africa,England controlled ____ from Cape to Cairo.
A)the entire west coast of Africa
B)all the former German colonies
C)Muslim Africa
D)half of Africa
E)the entire east coast of Africa
Q4) The disastrous events on the eastern front during World War I were the final blows that forced major political change in Russia.
A)True
B)False
Q6) naval blockade Page 19
Q5) Emma Goldman | Emma Goldman on Women's Rights
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Chapter 14: Responses to Global Crisis, 1920 1939
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Q1) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Q2) The overall effects of the 1930s global economic crisis involved the A)increase of liberal ideas of free state and political association across the world. B)decline of communism and fascism.
C)strengthening of nationalism in Africa and Asia.
D)weakening of authoritarianism where liberalism was strong.
E)overthrow of authoritarian governments.
Q3) In creating modern Turkey,what laws of the Kemal government established a line between religion and politics?
Q4) Believing that inferiors were detrimental to the state,German medical practices involved the use of eugenics.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Italians rebelled against the infringements to personal liberties under the fascist government of Mussolini.
A)True
B)False
Q6) New Deal
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Chapter 15: The Second World War and the Origins of the
Cold War, 1939 1949
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Q1) Iron curtain
Q2) Hibakusha
Q3) Ashkenazim
Q4) Which leader used the term "Great Patriotic Homeland War" to rally his people?
A)Churchill
B)Gandhi
C)Stalin
D)Mussolini
E)Mao
Q5) Siege of Leningrad
Q6) India finally became independent in A)1945. B)1947.
C)1950. D)1955. E)1960.
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Q7) In both Europe and Asia,the Axis powers were dominant in the initial stages of the war.What were the key turning points respectively in the European theater and the Pacific theater that enabled the Allies to go on the offensive and eventually achieve victory?
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Chapter 16: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1949 1975
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Q1) As a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis,the United States
A)agreed to withdraw its missiles from Turkey.
B)increased missiles in Iran.
C)increased its military forces in Japan.
D)demanded that the Soviet Union withdraw its support of Castro.
E)allied with Mexico in opposition to Castro.
Q2) Referring to the feature,"Visual Evidence in Primary Sources: Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and outside sources,choose three figures from the chapter section,"A Time of Upheaval,1966?1974" that capture the spirit of the times.Discuss why these figures were culturally and historically important.
Q3) The United States and Britain recognized the independence South Africa and its repressive governments because that government
A)promised to provide for human rights.
B)allowed military and nuclear facilities on their land.
C)were anti-Soviet and anticommunist.
D)were governments of compromise between whites and Africans.
E)refused to nationalize foreign investments and properties.
Q4) Salvador Allende
Q5) Defense of the revolution
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Chapter 17: Toward a New World Order, 1975 2000
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Q1) Osama bin Laden
Q2) Deng Xiaoping
Q3) Nationalist anti-Soviet uprisings in Poland were hurt by the election of Pope John Paul II.
A)True
B)False
Q4) neoliberalism
Q5) Bantustans
Q6) "The great Satan"
Q7) Japan developed a successful economic resurgence after World War II by returning to an industrial military complex.
A)True
B)False
Q8) After hundreds of years of wars and devastation,how has the European Union reshaped Europe both economically and socially?
Q9) By developing marketing principles and doing away with old socialist and bureaucratic institutions,Asian nations achieved stunning rates of growth.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Voyage into the Twenty First Century
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Q1) In countries that express concerns about immigration,immigrants are most often blamed for
A)reducing the tax base.
B)hostility to the culture of their new countries.
C)trying too hard to gain acceptance.
D)depleting social services and other resources.
E)taking jobs away from resident citizens.
Q2) Criticism of the World Trade Organization centers mainly on what issue?
A)The way deregulation favors multinational corporations
B)Environmental regulations
C)Labor unions
D)Military dictatorships
E)Human rights
Q3) Referring to the feature,"Movement of Ideas Through Primary Sources:- The Piketty Controversy: Inequality and Economic History," discuss why Piketty's conclusions about capitalism are so controversial.Do you agree that unregulated markets lead to increased inequality over time? Why or why not?
Q4) Muhammad Yunus
Q5) cultural and linguistic bridges
Q6) Saddam Hussein
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