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Course Introduction
This course explores the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in Europe from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Students will examine transformative events such as the French and Industrial Revolutions, the rise and fall of empires, the world wars, the Cold War, and the process of European integration. Emphasis is placed on understanding how these events shaped modern European identities, ideologies, and institutions, as well as their global impact. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will gain a nuanced appreciation of Europes complex and dynamic past.
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Western Civilization Volume II Since 1500 9th Edition by Jackson J. Spielvogel
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Chapter 1: Reformation and Religious Warfare in the
Sixteenth Century
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Q1) Luther denied the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of these events occurred during the reign of Edward VI of England?
A)The English church moved in the direction of Protestantism.
B)The English church moved in the direction of Catholicism.
C)The English monarchy reconciled with the papacy.
D)The Spanish sent an armada to conquer England.
E)The English established important new colonies in the Americas.
Answer: A
Q3) How did the religious Peace of Augsburg settle the Lutheran problem?
A)The north of the Main river was Lutheran, and the south was Catholic.
B)Each territory held elections to determine its religion.
C)All of Germany became much more religiously tolerant.
D)Protestants accepted the authority of the papacy.
E)The ruler of each territory determined the religion there.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Europe and the World: New Encounters
1500-1800
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Q1) What were the most important long-term effects of European expansion on the peoples of the Americas?
Answer: The most important long-term effects of European expansion on the peoples of the Americas were the decimation of indigenous populations through disease, warfare, and forced labor, the imposition of European cultural and religious practices, and the establishment of colonial systems that exploited native resources and labor. These effects led to the displacement and marginalization of indigenous communities, the loss of traditional lands and ways of life, and the perpetuation of social and economic inequalities that continue to impact indigenous peoples today. Additionally, European expansion also brought about the introduction of new crops, animals, and technologies to the Americas, as well as the exchange of ideas and cultures between the two continents. Overall, the legacy of European expansion in the Americas has been one of profound and lasting consequences for the indigenous peoples of the region.
Q2) The decline of the Maya civilization was precipitated by the arrival of the Spanish.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: State Building and the Search for Order in the
Seventeenth Century
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Q1) Which group benefited from Peter the Great's cultural reforms?
A)The urban poor
B)Estate owners
C)Priests
D)Peasants
E)Women
Answer: E
Q2) What was Thomas Hobbes' response to the English revolutions?
A)He felt that man was suited best to be in a pristine state of nature, without government interference.
B)He stated that mankind was animalistic, and needed a strong government to maintain social order.
C)He was a firm believer in democracy.
D)He said that the best form of government was a theocracy.
E)He argued in favor of revolution when the ruler broke the social contract.
Answer: B
Q3) Lope de Vega was a leading Spanish playwright.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment
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Q1) In Rousseau's view, for what role were women best suited?
A)Mother
B)Soldier
C)Thinker
D)Writer
E)Worker
Q2) In the eighteenth century, the largest number of Jews lived in
A)France.
B)eastern Europe.
C)northern Europe.
D)Italy.
E)England, Ireland, and Wales.
Q3) Which city was the recognized capital of the Enlightenment?
A)Geneva
B)Berlin
C)London
D)Vienna
E)Paris
Q4) What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau mean by the "general will"? What kind of government did he advocate?
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Chapter 5: The Eighteenth Century: European States
International Wars and Social Change
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Q1) When Louis XIV left the thrown, France faced all of the following conditions EXCEPT____.
A)a five-year-old successor to the throne.?a somber aristocracy.
B)more territorial holdings.
C)an unhappy citizenry.
D)massive debt.
Q2) What did Austrian emperor Joseph II issue in his effort to reform his domains?
A)Three new court circulars on improved operations for the imperial bureaucracy
B)6,000 decrees and 11,000 new laws
C)150 new ranks of imperial bureaucrats
D)At least 350 imperial decrees for the reform of judicial practice in Hungary
E)An edict separating the Austrian government from any connection with the Catholic Church
Q3) What was the foundational rule of European governments during the eighteenth century, according to Frederick the Great?
A)Sea power was the basis of real power.
B)The government was responsible for expanding its territories.
C)A country's empire determined its greatness.
D)The charisma of a ruler determined a country's success in foreign policy.
E)The largest army always wins.
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Chapter 6: A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution
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Q1) Many European intellectuals saw the American Revolution as the embodiment of the Enlightenment's political dreams.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did Louis XVI respond to the revolutionary challenges to the Old Regime?
Q3) What saved the Revolution as a whole when the "revolution of the lawyers" appeared doomed by the threat of royal armed forces in the summer of 1789?
A)The betrayal of the monarchy by high clergymen
B)The defection of key nobles of the sword to the rebels
C)The intervention of armed commoners, especially in urban uprisings
D)The outside influence of mercenary troops paid by the rebels
E)The intervention of Britain, whose constitutional monarch seemed threatened by upheaval in France
Q4) The Paris Commune was composed mainly of lawyers and merchants.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What were the long-term causes of the French Revolution? Was the revolution inevitable? Could it have been avoided? Explain.
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Chapter 7: The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on
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Q1) Steam engines helped make steal manufacturing the first industry to utilize modern factories.
A)True
B)False
Q2) James Hargreaves' spinning jenny
Q3) What point were the British trying to make with the Great Exhibition of 1851?
Q4) factory regulations
Q5) Who established the first textile factory using water-powered spinning machines in Rhode Island in 1790?
A)Samuel Slater
B)Richard Arkwright
C)Eli Whitney
D)Samuel Newcomen
E)John Brown
Q6) George Stephenson's Rocket
Q7) puddling
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Q11) the workhouse
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Chapter 8: Reaction Revolution and Romanticism 1815-1850
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Q1) How did economic factors shape the development of Latin America after the revolutions of the early nineteenth century?
Q2) In 1821 the Greeks revolted against the Ottoman Turks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The German painter Caspar David Friedrich had a lifelong preoccupation with
A)painting women.
B)industrial machinery.
C)God and nature.
D)logic and rationalism.
E)urban scenes.
Q4) For the Romantics, the novel ranked above all other literary forms.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which author is associated with Gothic literature?
A)Ralph Waldo Emerson
B)Thomas Carlyle
C)Edgar Allan Poe
D)Herman Melville
E)Henry David Thoreau
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Chapter 9: An Age of Nationalism and Realism 1850-1871
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Q1) What were the causes and consequences of the Crimean War?
Q2) In Madame Bovary, ____ told the story of a woman trapped in loveless marriage.
A)Jean-Francois Millet
B)Gustave Courbet
C)Gustave Flaubert
D)Charles Dickens
E)William Thackeray
Q3) The Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary had two monarchs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which country did Piedmont align with during the Italian War of 1859?
A)Russia
B)England
C)Austria
D)Prussia
E)France
Q5) France and Russia faced off against Britain and the Ottomans in the Crimean War.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why was slavery a threat to American unity in the mid-nineteenth century?
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Chapter 10: Mass Society in an Age of Progress 1871-1894
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Q1) In 1910, Britain led the world in annual steel production.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did the steel, electricity, and the internal combustion engine shape economic and social developments in the late nineteenth century?
Q3) Le Bon Marché is an example of the new
A)conservative political parties.
B)patterns in labor organization.
C)department stores.
D)industrial factories.
E)dance halls and theaters.
Q4) Who made up the late nineteenth-century middle classes, and what role did they play in the emerging mass society?
Q5) By 1900, ____ workers were enrolled in British trade unions.
A)2,000
B)20,000
C)200,000
D)2 million
E)20 million
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Chapter 11: An Age of Modernity Anxiety and Imperialism
1894-1914
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Q1) What led to the scramble for Africa? How did the colonization of Africa affect relations between the European powers?
Q2) Einstein concluded that matter was
A)not really real.
B)just another form of energy.
C)fundamentally different than energy.
D)indestructible.
E)a form of time.
Q3) What did Britain's Fabian Socialists seek?
A)They demanded the immediate nationalization of all British industry and transportation facilities.
B)They urged the Proletariat to begin a revolt against the government.
C)They wanted to participate in the political process.
D)They favored evolution toward a socialist state by democratic means.
E)They practiced civil disobedience against the power of Parliament.
Q4) How did the "new physics" challenge the established certainties of classical physics?
Q5) How did the "new imperialism" differ from previous periods of European overseas expansion?
Q6) What are the defining characteristics of modernism?
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Q1) From which empire did the Balkan states gain independence prior to World War I?
A)The British Empire
B)The United States Empire
C)The Ottoman Empire
D)The French Empire
E)The German Empire
Q2) The unexpected development of ____ baffled military leaders on both sides.
A)barbed wire
B)rocket-powered missiles
C)strategic bombing
D)trench warfare
E)airplanes
Q3) What was the economic impact of World War I?
A)It saw European governments adopt a "hands off" policy toward their economies.
B)It saw European governments all take control of only war-related industries.
C)It witnessed European governments gradually take full control of all aspects of their economies.
D)It did little to affect the domestic industries of European nations.
E)It brought considerable prosperity to all of the belligerent nations.
Q4) In what sense was the Great War a "world war"?
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Chapter 13: The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between
the Wars 1919-1939
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Q1) Compare and contrast the ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. How did each man understand the "unconscious"?
Q2) Carl Jung developed the idea of the A)collective unconscious.
B)id.
C)super ego.
D)super man.
E)irrational mind.
Q3) The growing strength of the agricultural sector of the economy in the late 1920s gave hope to many European nations that prosperity and peace might last.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was true of the Nazi policy toward women?
A)Nazi policy differed fundamentally from those of Fascist Italy.
B)Nazi policy eliminated females from all professional occupations.
C)Nazi policy aimed at bridging the differences between the sexes.
D)Nazi policy encouraged women to focus on having children and on domestic life.
E)Nazi policy organized all adult women in military brigades.
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Q5) What were Stalin's economic goals? How did he go about trying to achieve them?
Chapter 14: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World
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Q1) What event precipitated war between Russia and Germany in 1941?
A)Germany launched a surprise attack on Russia
B)Russia launched a surprise attack on Germany
C)Russian agents assassinated Hitler's nephew
D)Russia refused to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
E)Japan staged a fake attack in eastern Russia, making it look like a German offensive
Q2) What steps the Allied powers take to open up a "second front" in Western Europe?
A)They quickly advanced through Italy into France in 1943.
B)They invaded Normandy in June 1944, carrying out the greatest naval invasion in history.
C)They landed on the Iberian peninsula and advanced through southern France.
D)They lured German forces south to Italy and invaded the north German coast.
E)They secretly landed a large invading force in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Q3) What was the "Final Solution"? How was it carried out?
Q4) What role did racial considerations play in the Nazi rule of their empire?
Q5) Why did the United States decide to use atomic weapons against Japan? In your opinion, was the use of atomic weapons justified?
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Chapter 15: Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965
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Q1) What was the one issue that united Arab states?
A)The Suez Canal
B)Equal sharing in oil revenues
C)Palestine
D)A sympathy for Communism
E)Anti-Americanism
Q2) Between 1945 and 1970, the ideals of ____ largely determined the patterns of American domestic politics.
A)the New Nationalism
B)centralized economic planning
C)rugged individualism
D)conservative Republicans
E)the New Deal
Q3) What event led Charles de Gaulle to withdraw from politics?
A)He was discredited by his links with the Communists.
B)The United States wanted France out of Indochina.
C)Radical union leaders constantly harassed him.
D)He believed the Fourth Republic had become weak.
E)He wanted to become king.
Q4) What was the Truman Doctrine? How did it shape U.S. foreign policy?
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Chapter 16: Protest and Stagnation: the Western World
1965-1985
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Q1) Britain's Margaret Thatcher used austerity measures to control inflation and her policies did improve the British economy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which philosopher argued that all relationships were marked by power and oppression?
A)Michel Foucault
B)Jacques Derrida
C)Milan Kundera
D)Philip Glass
E)Michael Jackson
Q3) Taking into consideration the entire spectrum of human affairs, what was Western Civilization's greatest challenge between 1965 and 1985? Why do you think this was more challenging than other important issues of the day?
Q4) The American people increasingly divided over the war in Vietnam after Johnson's troop escalation in 1968.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What led to the post-World War II feminist movement? What were its goals?
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Chapter 17: After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age
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Q1) Which Eastern European republic came into existence in 1993 with the breakup of a previously existing state and which was fueled by ethnic rivalries?
A)Lithuania
B)Estonia
C)Albania
D)Lichtenstein
E)Slovakia
Q2) Is capitalism the dominant force on the planet today? Why or why not?
Q3) How and why did the Cold War end? Did anyone "win" this conflict? Who? Why?
Q4) Who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president of Russia?
A)Lech Walesa
B)Mikhail Gorbachev
C)Dmitry Medvedev
D)Yuri Andropov
E)Andrei Sakharov
Q5) Barack Obama's first challenge, even before he was inaugurated as president in 2009, was the collapse of the American financial system.
A)True
B)False
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