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This course offers a comprehensive exploration of how societies and cultures have developed and interacted across time and space. Students will examine the foundations and transformations of social structures, belief systems, traditions, and economic organizations from ancient to modern eras. Through the analysis of diverse case studies, primary sources, and scholarly interpretations, the course highlights the dynamic forces behind cultural exchange, power relations, and technological advancements. By understanding historical patterns and cultural diversity, students will gain insights into the complexities and commonalities that have shaped human civilizations.
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Connections A World History Combined 2nd Edition by Edward H. Judge
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Chapter 1: The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000
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Q1) The concept of race is best described as A) based on genetic mapping.
B) proven by substantial genetic variations.
C) without scientific foundation.
D) of no historical importance.
Answer: C
Q2) Why do pastoral nomads tend to have smaller families?
Answer: mobility
Q3) How does the maturation process of humans differ from that of other mammals?
A) It is shorter.
B) It is longer.
C) It occurs with relatively little nurturing.
D) The need for supervision is surprisingly low.
Answer: B
Q4) Which of these is NOT a necessary component of a state?
A) a government
B) a population
C) a leader
D) a territory
Answer: C
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Q1) Carthage was a colony founded on the North African coast by a seafaring people from West Asia known as the A) Hittites.
B) Egyptians.
C) Phoenicians.
D) Assyrians.
Answer: C
Q2) In most cultures today, it is customary for the bride's family to pay for the wedding. This custom has roots in the ancient practice of
A) the bride's family choosing the groom.
B) the groom's family arranging the marriage.
C) the bride's family supplying the dowry.
D) the bride's family walking her down the aisle.
Answer: C
Q3) Who were the "New Babylonians"?
Answer: Chaldeans
Q4) Why didn't copper work well for creating large tools and weapons?
Answer: It was too soft.
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Chapter 3: Societies and Beliefs of Early India, to 500 Ce
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Q1) The Ganges river is sacred to
A) Buddhists.
B) Jains.
C) Ashoka.
D) Hindus.
Answer: D
Q2) What is the name of the highlands region of southern India?
A) the Deccan
B) the Ganges
C) the Hindu Kush
D) the Himalayas
Answer: A
Q3) What benefit resulted from the Persian presence in India?
A) Indian unification
B) unprecedented trade connections
C) Indian independence
D) agricultural advancements
Answer: B
Q4) Identify Shiva.
Answer: The Indian god of destruction and rebirth.
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Q1) Which river is called "China's Sorrow"?
Q2) Which river is called "China's Sorrow"?
A) Yellow River
B) Yangzi
C) Gobi
D) Indus
Q3) The Qin dynasty relied on Confucianism to build a stable society.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of these men restored Han rule as the first ruler of the Later Han?
A) Han Wudi
B) Wang Mang
C) Guangwudi
D) Shihuangdi
Q5) Which dynasty first united China using Legalism as its philosophical base?
A) Xia
B) Shang
C) Zhou
D) Qin
Q6) Where was the western end of the Silk Road?
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Chapter 5: Early American Societies: Connection and
Isolation, 20,000 Bce - 1500 Ce
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Q1) Which region of the Western hemisphere was home to the Moche?
A) Eastern South America
B) northern Peru
C) the sub-Arctic
D) Mesoamerica
Q2) How did Knosorov's research affect current theories regarding Mayan writing?
A) He realized that Mayan writing was phonetic.
B) He realized that the Mayan writing system was actually begun by the Toltec.
C) He realized that Mayan writing was hieroglyphic.
D) He realized that most Mayan writing centered on religion.
Q3) Teotihuacán had about how many pyramids?
A) 10
B) 50
C) 150
D) 600
Q4) What is another common term for the Amerinds?
A) Native Americans
B) Native Asian Indians
C) African American Indians
D) Asian Indians
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Bce - 637 Ce
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Q1) Which man unified the Persian tribes and eventually united the Medes and Persians?
A) Alexander the Great
B) Cyrus the Great
C) Xerxes
D) Darius
Q2) Evaluate the name "Cyrus the Great." Does he deserve that title? Why or why not?
Q3) To what extent did the Seleucids, Parthians, and Sasanians revive the Persian Empire?
Q4) Who succeeded Darius as the ruler of Persia?
A) Cambyses
B) Cyrus
C) Xerxes
D) Alexander
Q5) Which of the following was NOT a factor contributing to the downfall of the Assyrian Empire?
A) The Chaldeans allied with the Medes.
B) Cyaxares strengthened his army.
C) Babylonia and Assyria erupted into civil war.
D) Cyrus the Great conquered Nineveh, causing Assyria to crumble.
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Chapter 7: Classical Greece and Its Expansion Into Asia,
2000-30 Bce
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Q2) Compare and contrast gender roles in Sparta and Athens.
Q3) Discuss commerce in the Hellenistic world and evaluate its significance in the lives of Greek commoners.
Q4) Alexander's conquest of Egypt was significant for Greece because the conquest
A) was the first time in history that the Greeks had seen Egypt.
B) opened the door for his invasion of Palestine.
C) paved the way for the Greeks to conquer the rest of Africa.
D) secured the Mediterranean coastline, which meant that Persia couldn't use it to invade Greece.
Q5) Discuss the different forms of government utilized by the Greeks.
Q6) Which of the following rights was NOT given to Spartan women?
A) the right to vote
B) the right to voice their opinions publicly
C) the right to own property
D) the right to transact business without the husband's consent
Q7) Alexander claimed to be a descendent of Achilles.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Who was the goddess of wisdom?
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Chapter 8: The Romans Connect the Mediterranean World,
753 Bce - 284 Ce
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Q1) The main point of territorial conflict between Rome and Carthage was control of A) Crete.
B) Greece.
C) Egypt.
D) Sicily.
Q2) What were the greatest strength and weaknesses of the Roman Empire as a political system?
Q3) Which of the following titles was NOT given to Octavian?
A) Imperator
B) Augustus
C) Rex et deus
D) Princeps civitatus
Q4) The Roman Republic's principal political institution was the senate.
A)True
B)False
Q5) On what subject did Peter and Paul disagree?
A) to whom did Jesus' message apply
B) whether or not Jesus was the Messiah
C) whether or not to spread the teachings of Jesus
D) the resurrection
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Chapter 9: Germanic Societies and the Emergence of the
Christian West, 100-1100 Ce
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Q1) Attila was much more brutal than most warriors of his day.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is simony?
A) abstinence from sex
B) licensing of illiterate priests
C) a man having more than one wife
D) selling of church positions
Q3) What is the concept of "papal primacy"?
Q4) Where had the Celts settled by about 200 C.E.?
A) the Mediterranean shores
B) Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Brittany
C) the Danube river valley
D) southern France and northern Spain
Q5) Serfs were required to do all of the following EXCEPT
A) farm.
B) obtain the lord's permission to leave the manor.
C) obtain the lord's permission to marry.
D) serve in the army.
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Chapter 10: The Byzantine World, 284-1240
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Q1) Which of the following accurately describes attitudes concerning religion and politics in the Byzantine Empire?
A) The emperor had both secular and religious authority.
B) The emperor should stay out of religious matters.
C) The emperor ruled as a secular leader and advised as a spiritual leader.
D) The emperor must avoid religious conflict at all costs.
Q2) Why did Kievan Rus and later Russian states turn towards Constantinople? Was this direction inevitable?
Q3) Bishops in the west were similar to __________ in the east.
A) kings
B) popes
C) patriarchs
D) preachers
Q4) Which man intervened in the Council of Nicaea?
A) Justinian
B) Justin
C) Constantine
D) Vladimir
Q5) Why was Emperor Julian called "the Apostate"?
Q6) Who was the head of the Byzantine Church?
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Chapter 11: The Origins and Expansion of Islam, 100-750
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Q1) Polytheistic Arabs had never heard of Allah before Muhammad began his ministry.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the Qur'an composed of?
A) the revelations of Allah to Muhammad
B) the teachings of Muhammad
C) the teachings and sayings of Muhammad
D) the revelations and teachings of Muhammad
Q3) Which of the following is NOT prohibited by the Shari`ah?
A) gambling
B) intoxication
C) charging interest on loans
D) contraception
Q4) Meccans before Muhammad had no knowledge of any monotheistic faith.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Mosques do not contain portraits.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Evaluate changes in Mecca after the founding of Islam.
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Chapter 12: Religion and Diversity in the Transformation of
Southern Asia, 711-1400
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Q1) Southeast Asia is an agriculturally rich region; however, farming in the region has proven to be rather difficult. Why?
A) There is not enough rainfall.
B) The soil is not fertile.
C) Much of the area is covered by rain forest.
D) Most of the land is too hilly to farm.
Q2) Who ruled in the golden age of learning in Baghdad?
A) Muawiya
B) Harun al-Rashid
C) Salah al-Din
D) Umar
Q3) The main ethnic group of modern Cambodia is known as the A) Funan.
B) Malay.
C) Khmer.
D) Veda.
Q4) Compare and contrast Cambodia and India with respect to government, religion, and social structure.
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Q5) Discuss how the Abbasid government differed from that of the Umayyads.
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Chapter 13: Early African Societies, 1500 Bce-1500 Ce
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Q1) In Sudan, which of the following were prized as status symbols and were used in commercial and political bargaining?
A) camels
B) cattle
C) sons
D) daughters
Q2) When Muslims Arabs entered Africa, they found
A) most Africans were already Muslim.
B) a lack of organized religious beliefs.
C) a mostly Christian population.
D) a wide variety of religious creeds.
Q3) African history is often interpreted through the eyes of foreigners because
A) Africa has always been under the domination of foreigners.
B) Africa had no written records prior to the coming of Islam.
C) African natives have never shared their earliest history with outsiders.
D) early African writing systems have yet to be deciphered.
Q4) Discuss the geographical conditions that make survival in Africa difficult.
Q5) The original Bantu homeland is in West Africa.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Evolution and Expansion of East Asian
Societies, 220-1240 Ce
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Q1) Vietnam's Three Religions were
A) Confucianism, Shinto, and Daoism.
B) Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism.
C) Confucianism, Islam, and Daoism.
D) Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism.
Q2) What dynasty first conquered Vietnam?
A) Qin
B) Wei
C) Sui
D) Tang
Q3) Which type of Buddhism taught that meditation was the only path to enlightenment?
A) Mahayana
B) Pure Land
C) Chan or Zen
D) Theravada
Q4) Discuss the impact of China on Korea.
Q5) What did Empress Wu do after her abdication?
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Chapter 15: Nomadic Conquests and Eurasian
Connections, 1000-1400
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Q1) The Seljuks underwent what major transformation in taking over Persian lands?
A) conversion to Christianity
B) change to a settled way of life
C) abandonment of Turkish customs
D) replacing Turkish with Farsi at all levels of society
Q2) The Seljuk Sultanate of ?R? m claimed the same political descent as which of these?
A) the Byzantine emperors
B) the Fatimid rulers of Egypt
C) the caliphs in Córdoba
D) the Ghaznavid rulers
Q3) The Mongols created the largest land empire that the world has ever seen.
A)True
B)False
Q4) By what title was Temujin known?
A) Genghis Khan
B) Khubilai Khan
C) Ögödei Khan
D) Hülegü Khan
Q5) What was the richest and most prosperous khanate?
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Chapter 16: The Resurgence of the Christian West, 1050-1530
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Q1) Many Christians persecuted the Jews because they believed False rumors regarding A) the betrayal of the Christians by the Jews during the Crusades.
B) the use of young Christians' blood in Jewish rituals.
C) the kidnapping and murder of the pope.
D) the practice of witchcraft among Jewish women.
Q2) Discuss the Great Western Schism and evaluate its effects on European society.
Q3) During the Church's Babylonian Captivity, eight popes lived in the city of A) Babylon.
B) Jerusalem.
C) Paris.
D) Avignon.
Q4) What distinguished the Fourth Crusade from the earlier crusades?
A) It was unsuccessful.
B) Those participating attacked Constantinople, not Jerusalem.
C) It was called by the pope.
D) It was led by kings rather than knights.
Q5) Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo were major Renaissance artists.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
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Chapter 17: Culture and Conflict in the Great Islamic
Empires, 1071-1707
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Q1) Discuss the fiscal policies of Shah Jahan.
Q2) A fatwa is a legal opinion from the highest Islamic legal authority.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following was NOT one of the Ottoman "pillars of empire"?
A) the grand vezir
B) the judiciary
C) the grand admiral
D) administrators who drew up edicts
Q4) Discuss Islamic attempts to conquer central Europe.
Q5) What state's system of government was described as the "four pillars?"
Q6) How did Ottoman Turks avoid the creation of a landed aristocracy, an institution that dominated European politics?
A) Land grants were valid only for the holder's lifetime.
B) They refused to allow ownership of land to anyone outside the royal family.
C) The government owned all the land and refused to grant land to anyone.
D) They only allowed people to own one acre of land per family.
Q7) Timur Lenk took over all of the land once owned by the Mongols.
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18: The Aztec and Inca Empires, 1300-1550
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Q1) More than one-third of Mexico's population died in less than twelve months from A) bubonic plague.
B) malaria.
C) influenza.
D) smallpox.
Q2) In the Aztec empire, the emperor and nobility ruled together.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why was smallpox so deadly to the Amerinds?
Q4) TheInca Empire was centered around
A) the Yucatan Peninsula.
B) the Andes Mountains along the Pacificcoast.
C) the Amazon River valley to the the Atlantic Ocean.
D) the southern tip of South America.
Q5) What was the language of the Inca Empire?
Q6) Compare and contrast the foreign policies of the Aztec and Incas.
Q7) The Incas were aware of Spanish defeat of the Aztecs.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Atahuallpa was ordered to submit to which two men?
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Q1) When Columbus first landed in the Caribbean on October 12, he thought he had landed off the eastern coast of
A) China.
B) Japan.
C) India.
D) Indonesia.
Q2) What was the goal of the residencia?
A) ensuring that Amerinds adopted Christianity
B) making sure that the viceroys ruled in the interests of their governments
C) maintaining a flow of profit from the Americas to Iberia
D) deciding the fate of captured Indians
Q3) King Philip's War
A) effectively ended Amerind resistance in New England.
B) forced the evacuation of Plymouth Colony.
C) led to the slaughter of thousands of colonists.
D) occurred after the English began to claim more and more Amerinds as slaves.
Q4) Discuss Portugal's rise to prominence as a major European power.
Q5) Discuss the costs and benefits of the Columbian Exchange.
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Q6) Evaluate the causes and affects of the smallpox epidemic in the New World.
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Chapter 20: The West in an Age of Religious Conflict and Global Expansion, 1500-1650
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Q1) Explain the formation of charter companies and evaluate their effectiveness.
Q2) John Calvin believed that every man had to choose between good and evil with the free will given to him by God.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Calvinists in Scotland were known as
A) Huguenots.
B) Presbyterians.
C) Puritans.
D) Anglicans.
Q4) Why was Catholicism more successful than Protestantism in spreading around the world?
A) The influence of the Spanish and Portuguese empires.
B) The lack of competition from monotheistic religions.
C) The lack of the missionary impulse among Protestants.
D) Muslims preferred to convert to Catholicism over Protestantism.
Q5) Who was the heir to the throne when Henry VIII died?
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Q6) What was the subject of "The Hammer of the Wicked"?
Q7) Discuss the years of religious warfare in France.
Q8) Discuss the corruption of the Church evident prior to the Reformation.
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Chapter 21: The Search for Stability in East Asia, 1300-1800
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Q1) The Ming dynasty sought to restore Chinese power and culture.
A)True
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Q2) Which of these describe Japan's Age of Warring States?
A) two rival emperors fighting for the throne
B) daimyo battling each other under a puppet emperor
C) a strong emperor bringing the daimyo to heel
D) a period of constant fighting between Japan and Korea
Q3) Which dynasty stabilized Japan?
A) the Tokugawa
B) the Ming
C) the Yuan
D) the Yi
Q4) Why did Qianlong formally retire early?
Q5) In what way did the Qing dynasty resemble the Yuan?
A) Neither was ever accepted by southern Chinese.
B) Both were founded by non-Chinese peoples.
C) Both ruled for only a few decades.
D) Both worked to rebuild the Great Wall.
Q6) Discuss gender roles in Japan.
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Chapter 22: Southern Asia and the Global Shift in Wealth
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Q1) Britain's "jewel in the crown" was India.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The three principal British ports in India were
A) Bombay, Calcutta, and New Delhi.
B) New Delhi, Bombay, and Madras.
C) Madras, Calcutta, and New Delhi.
D) Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay.
Q3) Which of these dominated Islam in Arabia in the 1700s?
A) Shi'ite orthodoxy
B) Wahhabism
C) Sunni orthodoxy
D) Sufism
Q4) Which of these shifts took place in Southeast Asia after 1815?
A) Europeans moved from commercial exploitation to colonization.
B) Europeans lost interest in the spice trade.
C) Muslim rulers were successful in regaining control of their lands.
D) Growing Japanese power displaced European traders.
Q5) Who was the leader of the British forces at Plassey?
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Chapter 23: Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1400-1800
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Q1) Which European nation began the Atlantic slave trade?
Q2) Santeria and Vodou are examples of
A) traditional African religions.
B) the survival and development of African customs in the New World.
C) a blend of Islamic and Christian customs.
D) a blend of African and Amerind cultures.
Q3) How did Muslim slavery differ from Portuguese slavery?
A) Muslim slaverywas harsh; Portuguese slavery was mild.
B) Portuguese slavery had no racial basis; Muslim slavery did.
C) Muslim slavery was centered on domestic service; Portuguese slavery was centered on sugar cultivation.
D) Slavery was rare in Muslim society; it was already common among the Portuguese.
Q4) What is the basis for classification according to race?
A) achievement
B) observed behavior
C) external appearance
D) religion
Q5) What was a "maroon"?
Q6) Evaluate the practice of polygyny in Africa.
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Chapter 24: Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1600-1763
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Q1) Discuss the ideology of Adam Smith represented in The Wealth of Nations.
Q2) Which man said "I think; therefore, I am"?
A) René Descartes
B) John Locke
C) Thomas Hobbes
D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Q3) Discuss the ideology of John Locke and evaluate its influence on American history.
Q4) Which man said, "I am the state"?
Q5) In 1653, Oliver Cromwell
A) was crowned king.
B) invited Charles II to return to the throne.
C) retired and turned power over to Parliament.
D)became a dictator known as the Lord Protector.
Q6) Which king repealed the Edict of Nantes, causing Huguenots to flee France in large numbers?
Q7) What was the major problem facing the Austrian empire in the late 1600s and after?
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Q8) Whose "New Methodology" laid the groundwork for the scientific method?
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Chapter 25: Russias Eurasian Empire: Convergence of East and
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Q1) In which battle was Peter the Great humiliated by King Charles XII?
Q2) Filofei promoted the idea of Moscow as
A) the center of Asian commerce.
B) the commercial hub of Rome.
C) the Third Rome.
D) the greatest European military power.
Q3) Peter the Great traveled incognito to western European nations as part of his plan to westernize and modernize Russia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What first separated Russia from Eastern Europe?
A) animosity between Russian and Polish nobles
B) constant warfare in the 1300s
C) conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy in the 900s
D) the Mongol conquest of the 1200s
Q5) How did Russian society develop differently from Western societies?
A) It focused more on military pursuits and less on education.
B) It focused more on spirituality and less on the military.
C) It focused more on collective society than individual liberties.
D) It focused more on individual liberties than collective society.
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Chapter 26: The North Atlantic Revolutions, 1750-1830
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Q1) Discuss Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia.
Q2) Which man advocated a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances?
A) John Locke
B) Baron Montesquieu
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D) Voltaire
Q3) The Committee of Public Safety was given broad powers in order to A) put an end to the monarchy.
B) protect against foreign and domestic enemies.
C) hunt down Robespierre's supporters.
D) ensure loyalty to the Catholic Church.
Q4) The outcome of the "Battle of the Pyramids" was that the
A) French army defeated the Egyptian army.
B) British army defeated the Egyptian army.
C) British army defeated the French army.
D) French navy defeated the British navy.
Q5) Evaluate the reasons for Napoleon's rise to power and his unprecedented popularity among the French people.
Q6) Who was the head of the Ottawa nation?
Q7) Where was Napoleon's final defeat?
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Chapter 27: Industry, Ideology, and Their Global Impact,
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A) They allowed people to buy corn at reduced prices, thus helping the economy.
B) They ruined the economy because they relied heavily on imports from other countries.
C) They gave nobles a monopoly on grain, leading to higher food prices which hurt the economy.
D) They gave the British an opportunity to charge high tariffs, which led to improvements in the British economy.
Q2) Which of the following best describes "jingoism"?
A) biased journalism
B) unbiased journalism
C) militant nationalism
D) Westernization
Q3) Where was the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations held in 1851?
A) Berlin
B) London
C) Manchester
D) Brussels
Q4) What gave some countries an early lead in industrialization?
Q5) What nationalist song was banned by Napoleon
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Q1) Which of the following ideologies influenced Polk's presidency?
A) manifest destiny
B) socialism
C) multiculturalism
D) isolationism
Q2) Under the Articles of Confederation, most power was held by
A) the national legislature.
B) the president.
C) state governments.
D) an executive council.
Q3) La Reforma was
A) the revolutionary movement that overthrew Santa Anna.
B) the reform movement that set up a progressive government in Peru.
C) Bolívar's reform movement in Argentina.
D) Bolívar's independence movement in Latin America.
Q4) Francisco Madero believed that all of Mexico's problems could be cured by A) war.
B) democracy.
C) monarchy.
D) education.
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Chapter 29: New Connections and Challenges in Eastern and
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Q1) Which man hid on Perry's ships in an attempt to learn about the Americans?
Q2) Where was the Taiping Rebellion centered?
A) Mongolia
B) Manchuria
C) eastern China
D) in southwestern China
Q3) Which Asian country most closely emulated Western customs and adopted Western practices?
A) Japan
B) China
C) Korea
D) Vietnam
Q4) Which nation controlled Indonesia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries?
Q5) Compare and contrast Chinese and Japanese responses to Western influence.
Q6) How did the reign of the last Chinese emperor end?
A) with Puyi's abdication
B) with Empress Dowager Cixi's death
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C) in the assassination of the last emperor
D) with the election of Yuan Shikai
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Chapter 30: New Connections and Challenges in West Asia and
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Q1) The creation of quinine was revolutionary in the treatment and prevention of A) smallpox.
B) measles.
C) malaria.
D) polio.
Q2) Selim's restructuring of Ottoman forces led to A) rebellion by the Janissaries.
B) strengthening of the Ottoman Empire.
C) defeat of the British.
D) defeat of the Russians.
Q3) Who controlled the Suez Canal by 1900?
A) the Ottoman Empire
B) Egypt
C) Britain
D) France
Q4) The first European country to outlaw the slave trade was
A) Great Britain.
B) Germany.
C) France.
D) Denmark.
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Chapter 31: The Great War and the Russian Revolutions, 1890-1918
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Q2) The overall commander of Allied forces in 1918 was
A) George Clemenceau.
B) Ferdinand Foch.
C) Philippe Pétain.
D) Winston Churchill.
Q3) Discuss the Russian Revolution of 1905 and evaluate the tsar's response to the crisis.
Q4) Seven hundred and fifty thousand Germans died of malnutrition primarily due to A) Britain's naval blockade.
B) the failure of the turnip crop.
C) the army's annexation of farmland.
D) collectivization of private farms.
Q5) Which of these best describes the geography of World War I in Europe?
A) The Triple Alliance formed a circle around the Triple Entente.
B) The Triple Entente forced a two-front war on the Triple Alliance.
C) The Triple Alliance controlled much of the Mediterranean coast.
D) The Triple Alliance was divided by the Triple Entente.
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Q6) What was the stance of Spain in World War I?
Q7) Discuss the stalemate that existed on the western front during World War I.
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Q1) Hitler's policy of Judenrein was an extreme form of A) imperialism.
B) socialism.
C) nationalism.
D) Fascism.
Q2) Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated an end to European rule in Africa?
A) Joseph Kasa Vubu
B) Simon Kimbangu
C) Marcus Garvey
D) Mahatma Gandhi
Q3) How did Mao Zedong's ideology differ from that of Karl Marx?
A) Mao did not believe in a violent revolution; Marx did.
B) Marx did not believe in a violent revolution; Mao did.
C) Mao believed that peasants, not urban proletariats, could lead a Communist revolution.
D) Marx believed that peasants, not urban proletariats, could lead a Communist revolution.
Q4) Evaluate the policies of Joseph Stalin on the Soviet Union.
Q5) Evaluate ethnic conflict in postwar Europe.
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Chapter 33: World War Ii and the Holocaust, 1933-1945
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A) Germany's lack of fuel.
B) U.S. intervention.
C) the British invention of radar.
D) Hitler turning his attention to an invasion of Greece.
Q2) Evaluate the strategic errors made by Hitler in WWII.
Q3) Which country safely evacuated its Jewish population to Sweden?
A) Denmark
B) Belgium
C) Switzerland
D) Poland
Q4) The assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss led to
A) the Rome-Berlin Axis.
B) the formation of the Axis powers.
C) Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland.
D) tension between Hitler and Mussolini.
Q5) Discuss Hitler's "Final Solution."
Q6) After WW II, the League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations.
A)True
B)False
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A) products available to consumers
B) civil liberties
C) opportunities for women
D) economic opportunity for entrepreneurs
Q2) In supporting regimes around the world, what was the main consideration for the U.S.?
A) strong democratic traditions
B) stable representative institutions
C) policies consistent with American civil liberties
D) opposing Communism
Q3) American president John F. Kennedy made a famous speech in which he declared that, "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But...."
A) "it is better than communism."
B) "give me liberty or give me death."
C) "I'd rather die in a shack as a free man than in a castle as a communist."
D) "we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in."
Q4) Who followed Truman as president of the United States?
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A) elite rule
B) political fragmentation
C) a broad social base
D) political instability
Q2) Perón enjoyed great support among Argentina's
A) business owners.
B) workers.
C) doctors.
D) lawyers.
Q3) Who was the influential Argentinean writer who was fired from his government job by Juan Perón?
A) Isabel Allende
B) Pablo Neruda
C) Jorge Luís Borges
D) Gabriel García Márquez
Q4) Who is widely labeled as Brazil's most astute political leader of the twentieth century?
Q5) Discuss the problems faced by the Fox presidency in Mexico.
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Q1) Why did the U.S. and Britain support French control of Vietnam after World War II?
A) in exchange for French support for British control of Burma
B) to keep France a strong counter against the Soviet Union
C) to oppose the Japanese occupation
D) to keep China out of Vietnam
Q2) Vietnam was reunified with a communist victory in A) 1975.
B) 1987.
C) 1989.
D) 1998.
Q3) Mao Zedong opened a dialogue with the United States in hopes of lessening tensions between the two nations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cambodia's genocide took place during A) the 1960s.
B) the 1970s.
C) the 1980s.
D) the 1990s.
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Chapter 37: Post-Colonial Challenges in Africa and the
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A) France.
B) Britain.
C) Belgium.
D) Germany.
Q2) What was the goal of the KenyanMau Mau in the 1950s?
A) independence
B) redistribution of white-owned lands
C) division of Kenya into two states
D) implementing Communism
Q3) Who was the American president when the Iranian hostage crisis began?
A) Richard Nixon
B) Gerald Ford
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Ronald Reagan
Q4) Which American president established the Peace Corps?
A) Dwight Eisenhower
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Ronald Reagan
D) Bill Clinton
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