Introduction to World Civilizations
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Introduction to World Civilizations explores the development and interactions of major societies across the globe from ancient times to the present. The course examines key cultural, political, economic, and religious forces that have shaped human history, highlighting the contributions and exchanges among diverse civilizations. Through comparative analysis, students gain a deeper understanding of global patterns, the impact of historical events, and the enduring legacy of world civilizations on contemporary society.
Recommended Textbook Traditions and Encounters A Brief Global History 4th Edition by Jerry Bentley
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Chapter 1: The Foundations of Complex Societies
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Q1) While Hammurabi's code was based on the principle that offenders should suffer punishment resembling their violation,it was also shaped by
A)social standing.
B)the will of the Mesopotamian gods as expressed by the priestly class.
C)the language spoken by the accused perpetrator.
D)the age of the accused perpetrator.
E)the religion of the victim.
Answer: A
Q2) Eridu,Ur,Uruk,Lagash,Nippur,and Kish were all associated with A)Egypt.
B)Nubia.
C)Phoenicia.
D)Mesopotamia.
E)Jerusalem.
Answer: D
Q3) The definition of Homo sapiens is "consciously thinking human."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations
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Q1) The capital of the kingdom of Kush was A)Kerma.
B)Axum.
C)Memphis.
D)Harappa.
E)Harkhuf.
Answer: A
Q2) Kerma was the ancient capital of Nubia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Egyptians were the most imperialistic during the A)First Intermediary Period.
B)Archaic Period.
C)New Kingdom.
D)Old Kingdom.
E)Middle Kingdom.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Early Societies in South and East Asia
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Q1) Vedic society was
A)strongly matriarchal.
B)marked by equality of the sexes.
C)strongly patriarchal.
D)alternately patriarchal and matriarchal depending upon which god was in power.
E)strongly patriarchal until the creation of the Lawbook of Manu changed gender rules.
Answer: C
Q2) The "mandate of heaven" was the Chinese ideal that expressed the right to govern.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What does the mandate of heaven tell us about the philosophy,religion,and social structure of the ancient Chinese?
Answer: Answers will vary
Q4) The Book of Songs was a Zhou collection of verses. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Later Mesoamerican societies used calendars derived ultimately from the model created by the A)Maya. B)Mochica.
C)Olmecs.
D)Aztecs.
E)Incas.
Q2) Describe the Maya ball game.Why did the Maya play it? What role did it serve in society?
Q3) Describe Maya religious beliefs and practices.What was the purpose of their bloodletting rituals?
Q4) The Olmecs traded extensively in all of the following items EXCEPT A)horses. B)jade.
C)obsidian. D)small works of art. E)animal skins.
Q5) The Pyramid of the Moon was a Teotihuacan temple and largest in Mesoamerica. A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: The Empires of Persia
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Q1) What was the role of the imperial bureaucrats in Persian society? How did they fit in with the other social classes?
Q2) The founder of the Achaemenid empire was A)Xerxes.
B)Cambyses.
C)Cyrus.
D)Darius.
E)Alexander.
Q3) Examine Map 5.1,The Achaemenid and Seleucid empires,558-83B.C.E.Compare the size of the Achaemenid empire to the size of earlier states,as well as to that of the later Seleucids,Parthians,and Sasanids.What would be the difficulties of ruling a state this large? How cosmopolitan was the Achaemenid empire? Explain the significance of the Royal Road.
Q4) Cambyses was the Persian emperor who captured Egypt.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What can the passage from Zarathustra tell us about the influence of Zoroastrianism on later religions? In what ways did Zoroastrianism influence Judaism,Christianity,and Islam?
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Q1) Laozi said in the Daodejing,"...practice non-interference in order to win the empire." What did he mean by these words? How does this quote demonstrate the fundamental difference between Confucianism and Daoism?
Q2) Liu Bang was the founder of the Han dynasty.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Chinese emperor who was notorious for his hatred of Confucianism and for his burning of books was
A)Qin Shihuangdi.
B)Wudi.
C)Liu Bang.
D)Wang Mang.
E)Jiang.
Q4) The Chinese script was standardized during the reign of A)Liu Bang.
B)Jiang.
C)Wang Mang.
D)Wudi.
E)Qin Shihuangdi.
Q5) Discuss the role of the Xiongnu in the history of China during the Han.
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Chapter 7: State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
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Q1) After the collapse of the Mauryan empire,India
A)returned to a series of regional kingdoms.
B)was immediately reunified in a new empire.
C)was united by a new wave of invaders.
D)suffered through a long period of chaos marked by a later Dravidian uprising. E)was absorbed into the expanding Chinese empire.
Q2) In the Bhagavad Gita,Arjuna says,"As a man,casting off old clothes,puts on others and new ones,so the embodied self,casting off old bodies,goes to others and new ones." What did he mean? How does this comment express the basic ideals of Hinduism?
Q3) Read the passage from Ashoka's 13<sup>th</sup> Major Rock Edict .What does Ashoka have to say about violence? What effect did Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism have on the Mauryan dynasty?
Q4) The harsh political philosophy of Kautalya is recorded in the A)Law Codes of Manu.
B)Mauryan Law Codes.
C)Bhagavad Gita.
D)Daodejing.
E)Arthashastra.
Q5) What were the major accomplishments of the emperor Ashoka?
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Chapter 8: Mediterranean Society Under the Greeks and the Romans
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Q1) The Iliad deals with the A)journey home of the hero Odysseus.
B)war to capture Troy.
C)adventures of Aeneas.
D)adventures and tragic end of Jason and Medea.
E)adventures of the hero Rama.
Q2) What were the main achievements and limitations of the Roman republic and Roman empire? What were the key turning points in Roman history?
Q3) Which of the following religions was NOT popular during the Roman empire?
A)Christianity
B)Mithraism
C)the cult of Cybele
D)Judaism
E)the cult of Isis
Q4) The tribunes were the wealthy classes in early Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The decisive naval battle in the Persian War was at Salamis.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads
During the Late Classical ERA
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Q1) The prophet Mani died in chains as a prisoner of the Sasanid emperor,under the urging of the A)Jews.
B)Christians.
C)Zoroastrians.
D)Buddhists.
E)Muslims.
Q2) You are a Chinese merchant in the city of Chang'an.How would you get products to the profitable Roman market? What might you bring back?
Q3) That Jesus possessed both human and divine natures was a decision made in part by the Council of A)Milan.
B)Nicaea.
C)Constantinople.
D)Rome.
E)Jerusalem.
Q4) How did Europe's culture change during the late Roman empire?
Q5) Examine the collapse of the Han dynasty.What factors help explain this phenomenon? How influential were the Han on Chinese history?
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Chapter 10: The Christian Commonwealth of Byzantium
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Q1) A direct challenge to the Byzantine emperor arose in the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown to the Frankish king,
A)Otto of Saxony.
B)Charlemagne.
C)Basil II.
D)Cyril.
E)Hugh Capet.
Q2) The fourth crusade,in early 1204,
A)recaptured Jerusalem from the Muslims.
B)suffered a disastrous defeat at the gates of Jerusalem.
C)is also known as the "children's crusade."
D)sacked Constantinople and caused extreme harm to the Byzantine empire.
E)was captured,and all the crusaders converted to Islam.
Q3) Examine the split between the Roman Catholic church and Greek Orthodox church.What led to this fundamental split? How did this split influence later history?
Q4) Discuss the rise of monasticism.What role did St.Basil of Caesarea play? What were the religious and social implications of this system?
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Chapter 11: The Expansive Realm of Islam
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Q1) Arabic numbers actually had their origin in A)India.
B)China.
C)Persia.
D)Egypt.
E)Arabia.
Q2) The main influence on the thought of Ibn Rushd was A)Muhammad.
B)Confucius.
C)Abu al-Abbas.
D)Aristotle.
E)Hippocrates.
Q3) How did Muhammad's background influence his beliefs and the early development of Islam?
Q4) The passage from the Quran describes Allah and says,"He has begotten no one and is begotten of none." What does this phrase mean? How does it relate to the Islamic interpretation of the nature of Jesus?
Q5) Islamic Spain was known as al-Andalus. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
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Q1) Built during the Sui dynasty,the Grand Canal facilitated trade between northern and southern China.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Along with wealth and productivity,Tang and Song China experienced a loosening of patriarchal social structures.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Chinese influence on Japan was most profound during the
A)Kamakura shogunate.
B)Heian period.
C)Nara period.
D)Muromachi shogunate.
E)Tang shogunate.
Q4) During the Tang dynasty,most of those who served as government officials had powerful relatives who placed them in positions of authority.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What agricultural developments helped to transform the Chinese economy?
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Chapter 13: India and the Indian Ocean Basin
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Q1) The kingdoms of southern India were mainly
A)Islamic.
B)Buddhist.
C)Hindu.
D)Sikh.
E)Jain.
Q2) Funan dominated the lower reaches of which southeast Asian river?
A)Mekong
B)Irrawaddy
C)Salween
D)Huang He
E)Yangzi
Q3) Why did a powerful,centralized state like the Tang dynasty in China never arise in India after the collapse of the Guptas? What factors might help explain this fact? How was India affected by its lack of political unification?
Q4) Compare the influence of India on the southeast Asian,Indianized societies to the influence exerted by other major societies studied earlier (e.g. ,Greece,China,Byzantium,etc. ).Are there any similarities? In what ways was Indian influence different?
Q5) What were some of the significant trade goods produced in southern India?
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Chapter 14: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
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Q1) Nomadic people did not trade with settled people,needing neither manufactured nor agricultural products.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Examine the social structure and culture of Turkish nomadic tribes.How were the tribes structured? What role did warfare play in determining social status?
Q3) At its height,Chinggis Khan's army was as large as
A)125,000 troops.
B)200,000 troops.
C)350,000 troops.
D)520,000 troops.
E)670,000 troops.
Q4) In the tenth century,the Turks living near the Abbasid empire began a large-scale conversion to A)Buddhism.
B)Nestorian Christianity.
C)Islam.
D)Hinduism.
E)Zoroastrianism.
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Chapter 15: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) By the eleventh century,roughly how many different languages were spoken in Africa?
A)50
B)75
C)125
D)190
E)800
Q2) The arrival of camels slowed the pace of communication and transportation across the Sahara.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Examine the evolving and complex social world of sub-Saharan Africa.Discuss the role of women in this society.
Q4) Why were bananas and camels so significant in early African history? What do they represent? How did they change the way people lived?
Q5) Ibn Battuta proposed that Mogadishu "is a town of enormous size." Why were the Swahili city-states so wealthy and powerful? What eventually happened to them?
Q6) What was the function of the griot in sub-Saharan African culture?
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Chapter 16: Christian Western Europe During the Middle Ages
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Q1) Central to the philosophy of the high middle ages was the rediscovery of A)Socrates.
B)Hippocrates.
C)Virgil.
D)Aristotle.
E)Galen.
Q2) In 987,the French nobles chose which of the following men as their king?
A)William of Normandy
B)Frederick Barbarossa
C)Hugh Capet
D)Henry IV
E)Gregory VII
Q3) What do the journeys of the Polos represent about European society during the high middle ages?
Q4) Look at Map 16.3,The medieval expansion of Europe,1000-1250C.E.What is the significance of the crusades? How do these movements help explain the transformation of Europe during the high middle ages?
Q5) Examine the origins and growth of the Holy Roman Empire.What were its strengths and its main limitations?
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Chapter 17: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Look at the reproduction of the Mexica list on page 312.How important was the role of writing to the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies? How does the role of writing for these tribes relate to that of the tribes of North and South America? What role did tribute from its conquered peoples play in the Aztec success?
Q2) The Pueblo and Navajo peoples of the American southwest
A)were the most nomadic of the North American native peoples. B)formed a political partnership with the Iroquois nations.
C)lived a settled,agricultural existence.
D)eventually fell under Aztec control.
E)were wiped out after a bloody confrontation with the Maya.
Q3) From the time of the Olmecs,Mesoamerican peoples had regarded the ritual sacrifice of human beings as essential to the world's survival.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What could the emphasis on human sacrifice tell you about the Aztec state and religion? In what ways was it a continuation of traditional Mesoamerican practices? In what ways was it not? Is the Aztec emphasis on human sacrifice similar to any other societies studied so far?
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Chapter 18: Cross-Cultural Interactions
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Q1) What is the significance of the Yongle Encyclopedia? In what ways would the Yongle Encyclopedia be representative of the accomplishments of the Ming dynasty?
Q2) Long-distance journeys enabled Muslim travelers to introduce new food and commercial crops to sub-Saharan Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What did Columbus hope to accomplish when he set forth across the Atlantic in 1492? What did he achieve?
Q4) Humanists scorned the language of the Greek and Roman authors and early church fathers,preferring the writing style of the scholastic theologians.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Summarize the origins and the progress of the bubonic plague of the fourteenth century.Which regions were hit the hardest? Which regions were largely spared?
Q6) In what ways was humanism representative of the Renaissance? How was it different from traditional European thought? Does humanism mean something different today?
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Chapter 19: Transoceanic Encounters and Global
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Q1) The settlers who established a Russian presence in Siberia included social misfits,convicted criminals,and even prisoners of war.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explore the differing approaches to exploration,trade,and colonization of the western European nations.What might explain these differences? How would these different approaches influence the areas being explored and colonized?
Q3) The profitable merchandise that Vasco da Gama purchased in India was made up of
A)gold and silver.
B)silk and artwork.
C)pepper and cinnamon.
D)silk and ceramics.
E)slaves and weapons.
Q4) Look at the illustration of travel on the silk roads on page 353.Why were the silk roads so important? What was the significance of the Europeans finding an alternate route and avoiding the silk roads? How did this exploration impact the Europeans,the Islamic empires that formed the intermediaries of the silk roads,and the rest of the world?
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Chapter 20: The Transformation of Europe
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Q1) Examine the idea behind the balance of power.How did this concept play itself out in Europe? How was this balance of power different from the political patterns in the rest of the world?
Q2) Why did serfdom survive in Russia long after it had died out in western Europe? How did the institution of serfdom in Russia begin to take on capitalist qualities?
Q3) Charles V did not build an administrative structure for his empire,but instead ruled each of his lands according to its own laws and customs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Examine the career of Martin Luther.What were the foundations of his Reformation? What legacy did he leave Europe? Why did earlier reformers not have the same impact?
Q5) During the seventeenth century,England and the Netherlands evolved governments that claimed limited powers and recognized rights of individuals and representative institutions.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What were the circumstances of the English Reformation?
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Chapter 21: New Worlds: the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) The Spanish colonial history has always had a very dark reputation.Do the Spanish actually deserve this tradition? Were their colonial policies any different from those of the Dutch,French,and English?
Q2) Explain how sugar production came to dictate so much of colonial Brazilian life.
Q3) The first site of interaction between European and American peoples was the Caribbean,and when the Spanish arrived there,the Taino were the most prominent people.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Spanish government reserved a fifth of gold production,known as the quinto,for the colonial settlers,and took the rest as revenue for the crown.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The British initially made use of Australia
A)because of its rich silver mines.
B)because of its extraordinary agricultural abundance.
C)as a busy port on the route from Acapulco to Manila.
D)as a penal colony.
E)as a tourist retreat.
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Chapter 22: Africa and the Atlantic World
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Q1) The ruler of the kingdom of Kongo,Afonso I,converted to what religion and encouraged his subjects to convert as well?
A)Islam
B)Antonianism
C)Christianity
D)Judaism
E)Buddhism
Q2) The kings of Kongo converted to Christianity as a way to establish closer commercial relations with Portuguese merchants and diplomatic relations with the Portuguese monarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Portuguese referred to Ndongo as Angola because of the word ngola,which meant
A)"gold."
B)"slave."
C)"impure."
D)"king."
E)"indigo."
Q4) How was the kingdom of Kongo transformed by its contacts with the Portuguese?
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Chapter 23: Tradition and Change in East Asia
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Q1) How did the Tokugawa shogunate come to power in the sixteenth century in Japan? What steps did the shoguns take to control the daimyo?
Q2) Foreign trade during the Qing dynasty was
A)carried out exclusively with the Europeans.
B)actively supported by the government and grew much larger than ever before.
C)based on free-market principles.
D)limited and under tight governmental control.
E)fueled by the payment of valuable Chinese silver in return for imports.
Q3) The practice of foot binding
A)was a Yuan form of torture that was copied during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
B)represented the increasing subjugation of women during the Qing dynasty.
C)was imported from India.
D)expressed the growing freedom of women in Qing China to follow urban fashion trends.
E)prevented Chinese prisoners from escaping during huge government-sponsored work projects.
Q4) Examine the concept of the "Son of Heaven." What were the foundations of this belief? Compare this idea to other political systems seen so far in the class.
Q5) What factors led to rapid population growth in China?
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Chapter 24: The Islamic Empires
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Q1) Which of the following rulers displayed the greatest amount of religious toleration?
A)Aurangzeb
B)Akbar
C)Shah Ismail
D)Süleyman the Magnificent
E)Charles V
Q2) The Ottoman institution that provided Balkan slaves for the formation of the Janissaries was the A)jizya.
B)devshirme.
C)dhimmi.
D)sharia.
E)millet.
Q3) Because of protests from moralists,the Ottoman sultan Murad IV
A)outlawed coffee and tobacco.
B)reinstituted the jizya.
C)forbade women to play an active role in the marketplace.
D)introduced a code of conduct for the Janissaries.
E)burned every available copy of A Thousand and One Nights.
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Chapter 25: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
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Q1) Which of the following was NOT one of John Locke's main ideas?
A)that sovereignty was held by the people in a society
B)that subjects had the right to remove their ruler
C)that rulers derived their authority from the consent of those they governed D)that individuals retained personal rights to life,liberty,and property
E)that although kings did have divine sanction,their subjects maintained personal rights
Q2) In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen,Olympe de Gouges wrote,"Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights." Why did she choose this exact wording? What was the foundation for her argument? What were her main points? Did her document prove that the French revolution had failed? How was her life representative of the role of women in the French revolution?
Q3) Was Napoleon a child of the French revolution or the absolute antithesis of it? What were Napoleon's goals? Why was he successful,and why did he eventually fail? Was he a reformer or just a dictator? Was he a child of the Enlightenment?
Q4) Examine the movements for the abolition of slavery and for the advancement of women's rights.Who were the leading figures? How were these thinkers influenced by the Enlightenment as well as by the French and American revolutions?
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Chapter 26: The Making of Industrial Society
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Q1) According to the Manifesto of the Communist Party,all of human history had been a history of
A)class struggle.
B)the quest for religious self-awareness interfering with the development of the peasantry.
C)the search for equality.
D)the search for freedom.
E)industrial integration.
Q2) The rapid population growth in Europe encouraged massive migration to the Americas,especially the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the impact of the industrial revolution on the material standard of living in Europe and America? Who benefited the most from this?
Q4) How total was the transformation brought about by the industrial revolution? Did anything of the old world remain? Was there opposition to this transition?
Q5) Explain how Great Britain took such a commanding lead in the industrial revolution.
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Chapter 27: The Americas in the Age of Independence
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Q1) The Native Americans who relocated from the eastern woodlands to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears were the A)Iroquois.
B)Sioux.
C)Cherokee.
D)Apache.
E)Pawnee.
Q2) Summarize the political and cultural conflict between city and pampas in Argentina.
Q3) The U.S.Civil War changed character on 1 January 1863,after
A)the battle of Gettysburg.
B)Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
C)the Nat Turner slave rebellion.
D)the battle of Antietam.
E)the Confederate states signed an alliance with the British.
Q4) Examine the picture of African-Americans voting on page 526.Why was slavery such a troubling issue for the United States? Did freedom bring equality?
Q5) What role did Emiliano Zapata play in Mexican history? What role did peasants and social stresses play in Latin American history?
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Chapter 28: The Building of Global Empires
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Q1) How did subject peoples resist colonial rule? How did imperialism foster conflicts within colonial societies?
Q2) In 1770,Captain James Cook anchored his fleet near what modern city?
A)Melbourne
B)Sydney
C)Cape Town
D)New South Wales
E)Wellington
Q3) Muhammad Ali was the
A)most powerful leader of the Safavid dynasty.
B)last powerful Ottoman sultan.
C)founder of the Young Turks movement.
D)Ottoman ruler who tried to strengthen the empire while simultaneously crushing liberal reform.
E)leader who ended effective (if not nominal)Ottoman control in Egypt.
Q4) During the second half of the nineteenth century,many Europeans believed that imperial expansion and colonial domination were crucial for the survival of their states.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 29: The Great War: The World in Upheaval
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Q1) What goals and values were expressed in the various nationalistic movements of the early twentieth century? Which ethnic groups in particular asserted the right of self-determination?
Q2) The underlying causes of the Great War included intense nationalism,ethnic resentments,pursuit of economic interests,colonial rivalries,and a general struggle over the balance of power in Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How did the mandate system work in the Middle East? Who profited most from this system? Read the memorandum of the General Syrian Congress .How did the former colonies of the Ottoman empire feel about the system?
Q4) The soldiers who marched off in 1914 to fight in World War I were mostly
A)depressed,because they remembered the incredible slaughter of the Franco-Prussian War.
B)mercenary troops.
C)extremely poor farmers that needed income for work as a soldier.
D)depressed because of their religious opposition to the war.
E)enthusiastic young men who expected a quick victory.
Q5) When and why did the United States enter the war? What did this move mean?
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Chapter 30: An Age of Anxiety
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Q1) What are some indications of the "postwar pessimism" of the 1920s? Why did liberal values such as progress and democracy fall under attack at this time?
Q2) The leader of the National Socialism movement in Germany was
A)Benito Mussolini.
B)Arthur de Gobineau.
C)Joseph Stalin.
D)Otto von Bismarck.
E)Adolf Hitler.
Q3) The 1935,the Nuremberg Laws
A)made Austria part of Germany.
B)removed any democratic restraints on Hitler's power and made him the dictator of Germany.
C)recognized the Japanese as honorary Aryans.
D)outlawed communist parties in Germany.
E)deprived German Jews of their citizenship.
Q4) The Nazi eugenics measures in the 1930s served as a precursor to the wholesale extermination of people classified as racial inferiors.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 31: Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa,
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Q1) Explain the role of the United States and the financial interests of U.S.businesses in the evolution of economic imperialism in Latin America.
Q2) Study the excerpt from Marcus Garvey regarding "Africa for Africans" .How does Garvey convey to his listeners the need for African independence? How does he believe African independence can be accomplished?
Q3) Examine the evolution of Indian nationalism.What role did Gandhi play in the process? What were his main ideas? What made the Indian situation so complicated with regard to forging a sense of national unity and achieving independence?
Q4) Who of the following is most closely associated with the Good Neighbor Policy?
A)Woodrow Wilson
B)Warren Harding
C)Herbert Hoover
D)Theodore Roosevelt
E)Franklin D.Roosevelt
Q5) Examine Map 31.1,The struggle for control in China,1927-1936.What were the main groups contesting for control of China? What threat did the Japanese represent to Chinese independence?
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Chapter 32: New Conflagrations: World War II
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Q1) How did the war affect civilian populations,families,and women on the home front?
Q2) German and Japanese war production matched that of the Allied powers during World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the Rape of Nanjing.What were the wartime goals of the Japanese? Why are these atrocities less well known than those perpetrated by the Germans in Europe?
Q4) "Asia for Asians" was the slogan of the A)Japanese.
B)Chinese.
C)Indians.
D)Vietnamese.
E)Koreans.
Q5) What was the "final solution"? How did it represent Hitler's philosophy?
Q6) Read the section from Yamaoka Michiko's account of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima .What were the reasons behind the decision to drop the bomb? Were there other options? What role would the existence of the atomic bomb play in the cold war?
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Chapter 33: The Cold War and Decolonization
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Q1) failed to force the British,French,and Americans to vacate Berlin.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Regarding international affairs,Nehru
A)strongly supported the Americans.
B)changed sides depending on who gave him the best deal.
C)would only align with nations willing to declare war on Pakistan.
D)strongly supported the Soviets.
E)was one of the leaders of the nonaligned movement.
Q3) An active policy of de-Stalinization was begun in 1956 by
A)Dwight Eisenhower.
B)Harry Truman.
C)Marshall Tito.
D)Mikhail Gorbachev.
E)Nikita Khrushchev.
Q4) Examine the philosophy and career of Mao Zedong.Was his variety of communism different from that practiced in the Soviet Union? Discuss the significance of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.How successful was Mao?
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Chapter 34: A World Without Borders
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Q1) Americanization is sometimes used to refer to the A)homogenizing of global culture.
B)spread of liberal democracy throughout the globe.
C)spread of U.S.-financed high technology.
D)central role that U.S.financial institutions play in the world market.
E)spread of Latin American influences to the U.S.market.
Q2) Critics sometimes refer to the homogenizing aspect of global culture as the "McDonaldization" of the world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What role has technology and mass communication played in the formation of today's world? How does reporting the news sometimes cause the news to happen? Why are some nations afraid of the communication revolution of today's world? Can it be stopped? Is there a downside to the age of access?
Q4) The Taliban emerged out of the disorder and devastation of the Afghan-Soviet war and the later civil war.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What factors led to the oil embargo of 1973-1975? What were the results?
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