History of Global Societies Exam Bank
Course Introduction
History of Global Societies explores the development, interaction, and transformation of human societies across the world from ancient times to the present. The course examines key historical processes including the rise of civilizations, the spread of religions and ideologies, trade networks, migration, colonization, and globalization. Through comparative analysis, students gain an understanding of how cultures have influenced each other and responded to challenges such as conflict, technological change, and environmental forces. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and the use of primary and secondary sources to analyze how global connections and exchanges have shaped the world we live in today.
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The Worlds History Combined Volume 5th Edition by Howard Spodek
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Chapter 1: The Dry Bones Speak
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Q1) Unlike Homo sapiens Homo habilis,it is clear that Homo sapiens Homo habilis
A) walked upright
B) evolved in Africa
C) used tools
D) was related to hominids
Answer: B
Q2) The map "The colonization of the Pacific" indicates that the Pacific was peopled
________.
A) by about 50,000 B.C.E.
B) directly from China
C) in three distinct waves
D) from the Hawaiian Islands
Answer: C
Q3) Like all hominid remains,the skull of "Toumai" ________.
A) came from a bipedal individual
B) has characteristics of humans and apes
C) is earlier than the skull of "Lucy"
D) shows the ability to speak
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: From Village Community to City-State
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Q1) Which of these first appeared with sedentary life?
A) hunting
B) land-holding
C) families
D) artwork
Answer: B
Q2) The earliest Mesopotamian law code dates to the ________ century B.C.E.
A) second
B) eleventh
C) twenty-first
D) eighteenth
Answer: C
Q3) The Natufian culture around 8000 B.C.E.was an example of a(n)________ culture.
A) hominid
B) Neolithic
C) hunting and gathering
D) urban
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: River Valley Civilizations
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Q1) The greatest of the Egyptian pyramids was built for what pharaoh?
A) Djet
B) Khufu
C) Menkaure
D) Amenhotep IV
Answer: B
Q2) Which of these kings unified upper and lower Egypt?
A) Menes
B) Narmer
C) Khufu
D) Mentuhotep
Answer: B
Q3) Which of these was used to decipher ancient Egyptian writing?
A) the Narmer palette
B) the Sphinx
C) the Rosetta Stone
D) the Pyramid of Khefren
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: A Polycentric World
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Q1) Looking at the map "Classic cultures of the Americas," which of these cultures were dominant at the same time?
A) Inca and Huari
B) Zapotec and Olmec
C) Aztec and Toltec
D) Teotihuanaco and Zapotec
Q2) The division between ________ was clearly delineated at Zhengzhou.
A) classes
B) secular and religious
C) men and women
D) races
Q3) The Pyramid of the Sun lies in what city?
A) Tenochtitlán
B) Teotihuacán
C) Chan Chan
D) Monte Alban
Q4) Considering urbanization in China,the Americas,and Africa,what do you consider the most important elements that would qualify a settlement as a town?
Q5) How did the dynasties of China differ from the dynasties of China?
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Chapter 5: Dawn of the Empires
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Q1) A deme is an Athenian ________.
A) holy site
B) marketplace
C) ruling council
D) geographical division
Q2) Which of these was a famous ruler of the Amorites,whose capital was at Babylon?
A) Cyrus the Great
B) Pericles
C) Sophocles
D) Hammurabi
Q3) Which of these resulted from the battle of Qadesh in 1274?
A) a new balance of power
B) the Hittite invasion of Egypt
C) the end of the Persian Empire
D) the rise of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom
Q4) Zoroaster is best known as the ________.
A) founder of a Persian religion
B) ruler of Persia at its greatest extent
C) first Greek philosopher
D) strongest of the Persian satraps
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Chapter 6: Rome and the Barbarians
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Q1) Arguably,the most important goal of the Roman political system was ________.
A) equity
B) human rights
C) expansion
D) stability
Q2) The Hallstatt culture was an early ________ culture.
A) Celtic
B) Etruscan
C) Latin
D) Germanic
Q3) The period of Augustus' rule can be characterized as ________.
A) both politically and culturally revolutionary
B) politically innovative but socially conservative
C) socially progressive and politically innovative
D) revolutionary in all spheres of life
Q4) The outcome of the reforms proposed by the Gracchi underlined ________.
A) Rome's growing militarization
B) the power of the Roman Senate
C) the disintegration of the patron-client relationship
D) how weak Rome had become
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Chapter 7: China
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Q1) The Qin dynasty oversaw a period of political ________.
A) fragmentation
B) chaos
C) revolution
D) consolidation
Q2) The Qin capital was at ________.
A) Chang'an
B) Luoyang
C) Xianyang
D) Chen
Q3) The region of Annam is today in ________.
A) China
B) Japan
C) Korea
D) Vietnam
Q4) The Xiongnu were ________.
A) the ancestors of today's Vietnamese
B) Chinese peasants under Qin rule
C) "barbarians" whose homeland was north of China
D) bureaucrats in the Han imperial system
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Chapter 8: Indian Empires
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Q1) In the context of Indian history,the Mauryan Empire was ________.
A) typical
B) unusually large
C) a foundation
D) an important precedent
Q2) The Aryan Vedas are ________.
A) law codes
B) hymns
C) histories
D) political treatises
Q3) The impact of the Aryan invasion on South Asia can be characterized as ________. A) limited to the north
B) short-lived
C) disastrous
D) extensive
Q4) Compare the spread of Indian culture to sinicization.How were these similar and different?
Q5) What were the most important factors in the strengths of Buddhism and Hinduism in India?
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Chapter 9: Hinduism and Buddhism
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Q1) Which of these was the language preferred by Buddhists in India?
A) Sanskrit
B) Pali
C) Persian
D) Urdu
Q2) Why did Buddhism change so much as it spread?
Q3) In Buddhism,those who could achieve nirvana but chose to remain on earth are
A) adivasis
B) brahmins
C) monks
D) bodhisattvas
Q4) The varnas are most important in Hinduism for ________.
A) determining one's occupation
B) organizing the castes
C) dictating one's caste
D) explaining the origin of caste
Q5) What did Buddhism have in common with Hinduism?
Q6) Compare the role of Hinduism in India and Shinto in Japan.
Q7) Compare the spread of Buddhism and of Hinduism outside of India.
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Chapter 10: Judaism and Christianity
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Q1) The portion of the TaNaKh dealing with Moses is the ________.
A) Nevi'im
B) Ketuvim
C) Hebrew Bible
D) Torah
Q2) The Jewish Bible was first written down in the reign of what Jewish king?
A) Solomon
B) Josiah
C) David
D) Saul
Q3) Which of these Germanic kings came to the assistance of Pope Stephen II in 754?
A) Pepin III
B) Charles Martel
C) Alaric
D) Charlemagne
Q4) The TaNaKh is best characterized as ________.
A) a historical record
B) a miscellaneous collection
C) folk tales
D) an epic
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Chapter 11: Islam
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Q1) Which of these was central to Arab spirituality,both before and after Muhammad?
A) the Quran
B) the hadith
C) caliphs
D) the Ka'aba
Q2) Which of these established an independent Egyptian state?
A) Umayyads
B) Abassids
C) Mongols
D) Fatimids
Q3) Comparison of mosque architecture indicates that mosques in different regions ________.
A) were nearly identical
B) had no features in common
C) all followed Arab decorative styles
D) retained the same components, but varied in construction and decoration
Q4) What steps made up the shift of Islam from and Arab to a universal religion?
Q5) How did expansion into the Middle East reshape Islam and Muslim culture?
Q6) How did decisions about leadership impact the history of Islam and the Islamic empires from the time of Muhammad to around 1300?
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Chapter 12: Establishing World Trade Routes
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Q1) In the map "African kingdoms," the Almoravid Empire was unusual because it
A) took advantage of the trans-Saharan trade
B) was centered near the Mediterranean
C) was a Muslim state
D) stretched across the Sahara
Q2) Ibn Battuta is best known as a ________.
A) scientist
B) mathematician
C) traveler
D) religious scholar
Q3) Transhumance is practiced by ________.
A) hunters
B) farmers
C) pastoralists
D) traders
Q4) Compare the Mongol Empire with the empire of Alexander the Great.Were they more similar or more different?
Q5) Compare the roles of China and Arab merchants in the Asian trading network.
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Chapter 13: The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific
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Q1) Like movable type,cannons illustrate ________.
A) the importation of new ideas from the Mongol world
B) the influence of trade on technical change
C) innovations in military technology
D) European developments of Chinese innovations
Q2) The greatest long-term impact of the Black Death was in what area of European culture?
A) social relations
B) gender relations
C) the arts
D) the economy
Q3) Viking explorations across the Atlantic can be characterized as having been undertaken ________.
A) boldly
B) piecemeal
C) with state support
D) timidly
Q4) Use The Triumph of Death to consider the different impacts of the Black Death on Europe.
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Chapter 14: The Unification of World Trade
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Q1) In France,mercantilism ________ the notion of the divine right of kings. A) was used as a tool of B) ran counter to C) arose from D) was undermined by
Q2) Russian expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was accomplished largely at the expense of ________.
A) its serfs
B) the Orthodox Church
C) the landed gentry
D) imperial power
Q3) Which of these countries established the trading post of El Mina?
A) Spain
B) France
C) Portugal
D) the Netherlands
Q4) How did colonization and mercantilism work together? Were their goals mutually supportive or contradictory?
Q5) How did the emergence of the nation-state change the nature of imperialism?
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Chapter 15: Migration
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Q1) Russian America is roughly the same as today's ________.
A) Canada
B) Oregon and Washington
C) Alaska
D) North American Pacific coast
Q2) Which of these was created primarily from religious motives?
A) Mughal Empire
B) Ottoman Empire
C) Safavid Empire
D) Mongol Empire
Q3) African slaves taken to Muslim lands were more likely to ________ than slaves going to the Americas.
A) have children with their masters
B) be freed
C) do manual labor
D) die young
Q4) Compare the practice of enslavement in Africa before and after the development of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Q5) Did urbanization in the period 1300 to 1750 follow earlier patterns?
Q6) What were the common elements in the formation and nature of the "New Europes"?
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Chapter 16: Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas
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Q1) In the ideas of John Locke,power comes from ________.
A) royalty
B) God
C) the people
D) representative institutions
Q2) Which of these was first developed by Isaac Newton?
A) the sun-centered model of the universe
B) a model for the circulatory system
C) the idea of the social contract
D) the law of gravity
Q3) What was the relationship of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment?
Q4) Which of these best characterizes the contribution of Isaac Newton to the scientific revolution?
A) the application of reason to the natural world
B) a working model of the solar system
C) a universal model
D) the first universal laws
Q5) Compare the American and French revolutions.Consider their causes,their courses,and their outcomes.
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) Neocolonialism is based on ________.
A) conquest
B) economic ties
C) cultural ties
D) migration
Q2) Did urbanization in the 1800s continue earlier trends or represent new processes?
Q3) The Social Democratic Party,based in ________,was formed in 1875.
A) France
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) Great Britain
Q4) For Karl Marx,________ suffered under a "double oppression."
A) children
B) working men
C) slaves
D) women
Q5) What were the most important impacts of the Industrial Revolution on politics?
Q6) Identify two or three factors that you think answer the question "Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?" Support your choices.
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Chapter 18: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Resistance
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Q1) The Sokoto empire was created under the leadership of ________.
A) Samori Toure
B) al-Hajj Umar
C) Usman dan Fodio
D) Mehemet Ali
Q2) The subject of the Berlin Conference was ________.
A) the Mahdi uprising
B) partitioning Africa
C) the Balkans
D) the weakened Ottoman Empire
Q3) The Tanzimat reforms illustrated what pattern that was common to nationalist movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s?
A) fundamentalist Muslim reforms under military leaders
B) radical reforms inspired by Marxism
C) aggressive nationalism aspiring to imperialism
D) Westernizing reforms led by young men
Q4) Were revolts such as the one led by the Mahdi and Usman dan Fodio anticolonial?
Q5) How did European imperialism change in the 1800s?
Q6) How did Japan fit into and escape broader trends in international relations in the late 1800s?
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Chapter 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction
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Q1) Which of these would have probably made the League of Nations considerably stronger?
A) the desire to avoid war
B) U.S. support
C) a more equitable peace settlement
D) rapid decolonization
Q2) Which of these gained most from the mandates created following World War I?
A) the Ottoman Empire
B) Turkey
C) Arab nationalists
D) Britain
Q3) The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand launched World War I because ________.
A) decolonization was weakening European nations
B) of preexisting defensive alliances
C) of the forces of nationalism
D) the European world order was falling apart
Q4) What were the principal factors in the onset of the Great Depression and in its spread?
Q5) Examine the theme of "International Role Reversals" by comparing two countries whose global roles changed in the early 1900s.
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Chapter 20: World War II
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Q1) The Kellogg-Briand Pact indicated ________ goals as the League of Nations.
A) roughly the same
B) the opposite
C) identical
D) different
Q2) Which of these is the name often given to the Roma who died in large numbers in German concentration camps?
A) gypsies
B) disabled people
C) Jews
D) Slavs
Q3) Hitler was motivated above all by ________.
A) socialism
B) nationalism
C) communism
D) Christianity
Q4) How did the causes,scope,and results of World War I and World War II differ?
Q5) What commonalities led to the emergence of fascism in different countries?
Q6) Compare responses to World War II.How have they attempted to deal with the legacy of the war?
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Chapter 21: Cold War, New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority
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Q1) Which of these explains U.S.intervention in Guatemala in the 1950s?
A) a threat to an American company in Guatemala
B) a direct threat to the United States
C) Soviet intervention in Guatemala
D) political chaos
Q2) Which of these Soviet leaders committed to a policy of crushing uprisings in satellite nations?
A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) V.I. Lenin
C) Leonid Brezhnev
D) Nikita Khrushchev
Q3) The Sandinistas were revolutionaries in ________.
A) Nicaragua
B) Guatemala
C) Mexico
D) Argentina
Q4) What are the strengths and weakness of the United Nation in pursuing its charter?
Q5) Why did the Soviet Union fall apart? What was the fate of communism in this process?
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Chapter 22: China and India
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Q1) B.R.Ambedkar is best known as an advocate of India's________.
A) Hindus
B) Jains
C) women
D) untouchables
Q2) Which of these made the Pakistan of 1947 unsustainable?
A) It lacked a religious majority.
B) It held India's historic heartland.
C) It was India's poorest state.
D) It was divided geographically.
Q3) Gandhi's salt march was an attack on ________.
A) British beliefs
B) neocolonialism
C) India's backwards industry
D) religious traditions
Q4) The "Little Red Book" was composed of quotations from ________.
A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Chiang Kai-shek
C) Mao Zedong
D) Sun Yat-sen
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Chapter 23: Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, Politics,
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Q1) Like al-Qaeda,Boko Haram is inspired by ________.
A) anti-Shi'a Islamism
B) Arab nationalism
C) the desire to purify Islam
D) Sufism
Q2) Which of these confirmed Darwin's theory of evolution?
A) the Great Ape project
B) discovery of the HIV virus
C) the AIDs epidemic
D) the discovery of DNA
Q3) Which of these men came to power in Iran in 1979?
A) Muhammad Mussadeq
B) Ayatollah Khomeini
C) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
D) Ayatollah Sayyid Khameini
Q4) Which of these led to a spike in European Union membership in recent decades?
A) the end of the Soviet Union
B) creation of the United Nations
C) the end of NATO
D) the creation of the eurozone
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Chapter 24: Trade,Revolution,Technology,Identity
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Q1) Research on nanosubstances as challenged our previous knowledge of ________.
A) biology
B) computer technology
C) chemistry
D) ecology
Q2) The 2008 global recession began in ________.
A) the United States
B) Asia
C) Europe
D) Latin America
Q3) In Africa,separatist movements are frequently the result of ________.
A) the scramble for Africa
B) traditional rivalries
C) racial hostility
D) the imperfect decolonization process
Q4) The motto of the ________ is "Another World is Possible."
A) World Social Forum
B) Conference on Human Settlements
C) United Nations
D) Kyoto Protocol
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