History of Globalization
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Course Introduction
This course explores the complex processes and historical developments that have shaped globalization from the early modern period to the present. Students will examine the economic, political, social, and cultural exchanges that have connected diverse regions of the world, focusing on key events such as the expansion of trade networks, colonization, industrialization, and the emergence of global institutions. Through analysis of primary sources and scholarly debates, the course will highlight both the opportunities and challenges presented by increasing global interconnectedness, and investigate the varied impacts of globalization on different societies throughout history.
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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) Looking at the map "Human ancestors," which of these has been found across Eurasia?
A) Australopithecus
B) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
C) Homo habilis
D) Homo sapiens (modern)
Answer: D
Q2) Modern humans are ________ percent the same as chimpanzees.
A) 91
B) 83
C) 79
D) 97
Answer: D
Q3) The first cave paintings date to around ________ years ago.
A) 85,000
B) 5000
C) 15,000
D) 40,000
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: From Village Community to City-State
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Q1) Urbanization probably emerged independently in ________ place(s).
A) one
B) seven
C) hundreds of
D) dozens of
Answer: B
Q2) Looking at the map "The origins of agriculture and domestic animals," which of these was common to Europe and the Near East?
A) rice
B) peas
C) olives
D) barley
Answer: D
Q3) Which of these is created by combining tin and copper?
A) silver
B) steel
C) bronze
D) brass
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: River Valley Civilizations
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Q1) The city that gave its name to the earliest Indus Valley civilization was ________.
A) Harappa
B) Mohenjo-Daro
C) Mehrgarh
D) Rupar
Answer: C
Q2) The peoples that conquered or replaced the Indus Valley civilization were ________.
A) herders
B) farmers
C) warriors
D) villagers
Answer: A
Q3) The greatest of the Egyptian pyramids was built for what pharaoh?
A) Djet
B) Khufu
C) Menkaure
D) Amenhotep IV
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: A Polycentric World
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Q1) Which of these dynasties came to power around 1122 B.C.E.?
A) Zhou
B) Xia
C) Shang
D) Win
Q2) The Longshan culture is best characterized as ________ Yangshao culture.
A) a branch of
B) the basis for
C) sharing common roots with D) a less developed form of
Q3) Which of these best characterizes the Xia dynasty?
A) historical
B) mythical
C) the legendary basis of the Shang dynasty
D) semi-mythical
Q4) The ________ people spread agriculture to a large region of Africa.
A) Nok
B) Funj
C) Bantu
D) Hausa
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Chapter 5: Dawn of the Empires
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Q1) What were the most important strengths and weaknesses of Persian rule?
Q2) The great library at Nineveh was founded by ________.
A) Esarhaddon
B) Zoroaster
C) Ashurbanipal
D) Aeschylus
Q3) The Behistun stone served the same purpose for Persian as the ________ for ancient Egyptian.
A) Great Pyramid
B) Narmer palette
C) Rosetta Stone
D) First Cataract
Q4) The rise of the Persian Empire represented a shift in power in the Middle East
A) towards Egypt
B) to the east
C) to Media
D) back to Mesopotamia
Q5) How do empires differ from kingdoms or city-states? Why are historians concerned about this difference?
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Chapter 6: Rome and the Barbarians
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Q1) The Pax Romana depended on ________.
A) a strong central government
B) border defenses
C) thriving commerce
D) suppressing slave revolts
Q2) The author of the Aeneid was ________.
A) Virgil
B) Marcus Tullius Cicero
C) Pliny the Elder
D) Zeno
Q3) The mosaics "Justinian and Theodora" show that Byzantine emperors ruled based on both ________ support.
A) military and religious
B) commercial and spiritual
C) cultural and military
D) patrician and plebeian
Q4) Did Rome want an empire? Answer this question by considering the forces that drove Rome's acquisition of a massive empire.
Q5) Compare the Roman Empire to Alexander's empire.Why did they have such different fates?
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Chapter 7: China
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Q1) Theravada is a form of ________.
A) Buddhism
B) Daoism
C) Confucianism
D) Legalism
Q2) Which of these dynasties came to power in 206 B.C.E.?
A) Qin
B) Tang
C) Han
D) Zhou
Q3) The Sui dynasty is best characterized as a period of ________.
A) unification
B) turmoil
C) collapse
D) territorial expansion
Q4) Consider China's relationship with its neighbors.Compare interactions among China and the Xiongnu and the Japanese.
Q5) How was Confucianism utilized by Han and later rulers?
Q6) What do you consider the most important achievement of the Qin dynasty? Why?
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Q7) Compare the beginnings and growth of Confucianism and Buddhism in China.
Chapter 8: Indian Empires
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Q1) One of the largest of the early Aryan states was ________.
A) Deccan
B) Pataliputra
C) Magadha
D) Chola
Q2) Which of these is one of India's great epics?
A) Artha-sastra
B) "Meghaduta"
C) Questions of King Milinda
D) the Ramayana
Q3) India's influence on Southeast Asia was based on ________.
A) conquest
B) religion and commerce
C) migrations
D) diplomatic ties
Q4) 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
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Chapter 9: Hinduism and Buddhism
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Q1) In China,Buddhism ________.
A) replaced Daoism
B) never completely took hold
C) was accepted alongside earlier spiritual traditions
D) first competed with but ultimately triumphed over Confucianism
Q2) The emperor Wuzong is best known for his ________ Buddhism in China.
A) attack on B) support of C) eradication of D) introduction of
Q3) In Vedic culture,the soul of an individual is its ________.
A) maya
B) dharma
C) atman
D) moksha
Q4) What did Buddhism have in common with Hinduism?
Q5) Compare the spread of Buddhism and of Hinduism outside of India.
Q6) How did Hinduism intersect with political,social,and economic life in classical India?
Q7) Compare the role of Hinduism in India and Shinto in Japan.
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Chapter 10: Judaism and Christianity
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Q1) When Paul wrote "There is no longer Jew or Greek," he meant that ________.
A) all were equal as Christians
B) Christianity would replace Judaism
C) the Jewish and Greek religions were being reconciled
D) the Romans had conquered both Israel and Greece
Q2) By around 600 C.E.,Jewish settlements ________.
A) stretched around the Mediterranean
B) were confined to the region of Jerusalem
C) were spreading to Anatolia
D) had disappeared from the Middle East
Q3) What were the most important lines of development in Judaism?
Q4) The Christian belief that Christ was human,and therefore less than God,was associated with________.
A) Benedict of Nursia
B) Clovis
C) Pelagius
D) Arius
Q5) How did Paul and Augustine reshape Christianity? Would you consider these modifications profound or superficial?
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Q6) How did its emergence in the Roman context help to mold Christianity?
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Q1) Which of these is the Muslim term for Christians,Jews,and Zoroastrians?
A) dhimmi
B) qadis
C) ulama
D) hadith
Q2) Like earlier Indian empires,the Delhi Sultanate was ________.
A) focused on the Indus valley
B) based in northern India
C) short-lived
D) created by conquerors
Q3) The Abbasid capital was at ________.
A) Mecca
B) Damascus
C) Persepolis
D) Baghdad
Q4) What steps made up the shift of Islam from and Arab to a universal religion?
Q5) How did decisions about leadership impact the history of Islam and the Islamic empires from the time of Muhammad to around 1300?
Q6) How did expansion into the Middle East reshape Islam and Muslim culture?
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Chapter 12: Establishing World Trade Routes
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Q1) From the 1300s to the 1600s,China was ruled by the ________ dynasty.
A) Tang
B) Yuan
C) Zhou
D) Ming
Q2) Zheng He is best known for ________.
A) his travels to Europe
B) a series of voyages in the Indian Ocean
C) founding the Yuan dynasty
D) his expansion of China's territory
Q3) The founder of the Mongol Empire was ________.
A) Kubilai Khan
B) Hülegü
C) Chinggis Khan
D) Ögedei
Q4) Ibn Battuta is best known as a ________.
A) scientist
B) mathematician
C) traveler
D) religious scholar
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Chapter 13: The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific
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Q1) The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is found in what city?
A) Rome
B) Florence
C) Milan
D) Venice
Q2) When much of the Mediterranean became a "Muslim lake," European merchants
A) profited from the new networks that emerged
B) began to push into African markets
C) found their opportunities limited
D) focused on the western Mediterranean
Q3) Which of these was a preeminent Catholic theologian who wrote Summa Theologiae?
A) Francis of Assisi
B) Avicenna
C) Thomas Aquinas
D) Niccoló Machiavelli
Q4) Use The Triumph of Death to consider the different impacts of the Black Death on Europe.
Q5) What drove the Renaissance? Compare the different factors that drove this burst of artistic and intellectual activity.
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Chapter 14: The Unification of World Trade
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Q1) Compare the Ottoman and Mughal empires.What were their most important similarities and differences?
Q2) In a nation-state,which of these would be considered "the other"?
A) women
B) workers
C) foreigners
D) capitalists
Q3) The Dutch East India Company can be characterized as ________.
A) a failed experiment
B) powerful and successful
C) an independent state
D) moderately successful, but short lived
Q4) The main goal of the Portuguese in Asia and Africa was ________.
A) establishing plantations
B) finding sources of slaves
C) trade
D) settlement
Q5) Compare the goals of Spanish and Portuguese colonization.How did these goals affect these nations' imperial institutions?
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Q6) 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) What were the most important commonalities among the Ottoman,Safavid,and Mughal empires?
Q2) The Mughals perpetuated what Indian pattern?
A) Delhi was India's permanent capital.
B) No one capital dominated.
C) India's capitals were always located in the Indus valley.
D) India's center was generally in the Deccan.
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) By around 1600,the Ottoman Empire covered roughly the same territory as the ________ Empire at its height.
A) Roman
B) Byzantine
C) Macedonian
D) Persian
Q5) 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) Which of these roughly doubled the size of the United States at the time it was added?
A) Mexican cessions of 1848
B) Louisiana Purchase
C) Oregon Country
D) Texas
Q2) Which of these conflicts was fought between1861 and 1865?
A) the French Revolutionary Wars
B) the Seven Years War
C) the American Revolutionary War
D) the American Civil War
Q3) Which of these best describes the complaint of the Third Estate in 1789?
A) They had no political power.
B) France was a monarchy not a democracy.
C) France's social hierarchies caused misery in the countryside.
D) They were far more numerous than the First and Second estates, but they had the same representation.
Q4) What were the most important factors that shaped the Latin American revolutions?
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Q5) What was the relationship between the American,French,Haitian,and Latin American revolutions?
Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) Socialism was an indirect outcome of ________.
A) the Industrial Revolution
B) the Enlightenment
C) imperialism
D) the American Revolution
Q2) The second stage of the Industrial Revolution differed from the first stage ________.
A) primarily in the kind of power used B) primarily in terms of what nations dominated C) primarily in the kinds of industries involved D) in almost every aspect
Q3) In Great Britain,the commercialization of agriculture ________ industrialization. A) emerged at the same time as B) was a result of C) fed into D) tended to hamper
Q4) Chose two elements of European or American society and compare how these two were impacted by the Industrial Revolution.
Q5) What were the most important impacts of the Industrial Revolution on politics?
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Chapter 18: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Resistance
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Q1) The subject of the Berlin Conference was ________.
A) the Mahdi uprising
B) partitioning Africa
C) the Balkans
D) the weakened Ottoman Empire
Q2) Nabobs were ________ administrators and merchants in India.
A) Dutch
B) Bengali
C) Mughal
D) British
Q3) Which of these models argues that global networks are controlled by core nations?
A) globalization
B) long-distance trade
C) world system
D) triangular trade
Q4) Were revolts such as the one led by the Mahdi and Usman dan Fodio anticolonial?
Q5) Consider anticolonialism in the late 1800s.What form did it take,and how successful was it?
Q6) How did European imperialism change in the 1800s?
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Chapter 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction
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Q1) The political ideology of Sun Yat-sen is best characterized as ________.
A) communist
B) idiosyncratic
C) socialist
D) democratic
Q2) As leader of the Soviet Union,Stalin represented ________,relative to Lenin.
A) a reversal
B) continuity
C) a new direction
D) a radical shift
Q3) The ideas of Albert Einstein ________ the work of the scientific revolution.
A) challenged
B) built on
C) was more based on empiricism than D) proved
Q4) Which of these forced much of World War I fighting in Europe into trenches?
A) poison gas
B) artillery and machine guns
C) tanks
D) airplanes
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Chapter 20: World War II
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Q1) Like World War I,________ was a key factor leading up to World War II.
A) the end of empires
B) nationalism
C) economic collapse
D) German aggression
Q2) Roughly ________ soldiers were killed in World War II.
A) 20 million
B) 2 million
C) 200,000
D) 20,000
Q3) The attack on Pearl Harbor brought ________ into World War II.
A) Japan
B) China
C) Great Britain
D) the United States
Q4) The opening phase of World War II was ________ the opening phase of World War I.
A) similar to
B) nearly identical to C) very different from D) the exact opposite of
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Chapter 21: Cold War, New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority
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Q1) The end of the Soviet Union can be characterized as ________.
A) painfully slow
B) marked by bloody conflicts
C) swift and peaceful
D) incomplete
Q2) Looking at the map "The decolonization of Africa," which of these was a major decade for African decolonization?
A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s
Q3) Which of these two generally went along with nonalignment?
A) being a third-world nation
B) membership in NATO
C) membership in the UN
D) advanced industrialization
Q4) Why did the Soviet Union fall apart? What was the fate of communism in this process?
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Q5) Compare two countries' decolonization experiences.How do you account for these differences?
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Chapter 22: China and India
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Q1) The leader of China's communists from 1945 to 1976 was ________.
A) Chiang Kai-shek
B) Mao Zedong
C) Yuan Shihkai
D) Deng Xiaoping
Q2) In communist China,technology and industry were held back by the privileged position of ________.
A) the rural world
B) administrators
C) merchants
D) the Guomindang
Q3) How did Mao's political ideas evolve after the victory of 1949?
Q4) The Great Leap Forward can be characterized as a(n)________.
A) resounding success
B) expensive failure
C) moderate success
D) triumph of Marxist ideology
Q5) What do you consider the most striking similarities between China and India around 1945?
Q6) What were the most important factors leading to the communist victory in China?
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Chapter 23: Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, Politics,
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Q1) The Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 indicated that the Chinese government
A) was hostile to university students
B) was returning to communist control
C) had implemented the tactics of the Cultural Revolution
D) would not permit open criticism
Q2) Which of these country's application for membership in the European Community has generated the most debate in recent decades?
A) Turkey
B) Poland
C) Greece
D) Spain
Q3) The current Chinese premier is________.
A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Xi Jinping
C) Chou Enlai
D) Jiang Zemin
Q4) What are the most important aspects of China's changing role in the world?
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Q5) How has our understanding of evolution changed in the last 100 years?
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Chapter 24: Trade,Revolution,Technology,Identity
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Q1) Which of these was called "creative destruction" by Joseph Schumpeter?
A) industrialization
B) capitalism
C) neocolonialism
D) urbanization
Q2) Unlike Joseph Stiglitz on the subject of globalization Friedman thinks ________.
A) globalization has had primarily negative impacts
B) globalization is impossible to stop
C) globalization has more positive than negative effects
D) the impacts of globalization are minor
Q3) The founder of the Green Belt movement was ________.
A) Nelson Mandela
B) Shakira
C) Waangari Maathai
D) Gabriela Mistral
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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