Modern World Civilizations
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Course Introduction
This course explores the major social, political, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped world civilizations from the fifteenth century to the present. Emphasizing a comparative and global perspective, students will examine interactions among societies, the impact of colonization and industrialization, the evolution of nation-states, and the emergence of contemporary global issues. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, the course encourages critical thinking about the forces that have influenced the modern world and the diverse experiences of people across different regions.
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The Humanistic Tradition The Early Modern World to the Present 7th Edition Volume II by Gloria K.
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Chapter 20: The Catholic Reformation and the Baroque Style
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Q1) In sixteenth-century Latin America,where ________ political authority went largely unchallenged,Catholicism went hand in hand with colonization.
A)local
B)French
C)Dutch
D)Spanish
Q2) In ________,where European traders were regarded as "ocean devils," Catholic missionaries assumed a cordial relationship with the intellectual classes and succeeded in converting a number of native scholars.
A)China
B)Japan
C)Korea
D)Arabia
Q3) ________ polyphonic masses and motets emphasized clarity of text and calm sublimity.
A)Michelangelo's
B)Bernini's
C)Gabrieli's
D)Palestrina's
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Chapter 21: Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style
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Q1) At ________,Louis' newly constructed palace emerged as an amalgam of Greco-Roman subject matter,Classical principles of design,and baroque theatricality.
A)the Hague
B)Versailles
C)the Louvre
D)Notre Dame
Q2) The imperial complex at the Forbidden City in ________ stands as a symbol of the absolutism of China's Ming and Qing emperors.
A)Tokyo
B)Beijing
C)Chunking
D)Hanoi
Q3) To provide musical entertainments for state dinners,balls,and operatic performances,Louis established a
A)permanent orchestrA.
B)national chorus.
C)guild of musicians.
D)new system of arranging written music.
Q4) What was the significance of Molière as a comic dramatist?
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Chapter 22: The Baroque in the Protestant North
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Q1) Which of the following monarchs governed England for more than a decade without the approval and support of the Parliament?
A)Charles I
B)Henry VIII
C)George I
D)Edward VIII
Q2) Following the devastating fire that destroyed three quarters of London,________,an architect,scientist,professor,and one of the founding fathers of the Royal Society of London,was commissioned to prepare designs for the city's reconstruction and the new St.Paul's Cathedral.
A)Chaucer
B)Milton
C)Wren
D)Handel
Q3) Bach's favored musical style was which of the following?
A)the oratorio
B)the cantata
C)the symphony
D)the concerto
Q4) Highlight the literary achievements of both Donne and Milton.
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Chapter 23: The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning
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Q1) Newton's Principia promoted the idea of a uniform and intelligible universe that operated as systematically as a well-oiled machine;his monumental work became the basis of modern A)physics.
B)meteorology.
C)chemistry.
D)engineering.
Q2) Discuss deism and how it formed a bridge of faith between religion and science in this age.
Q3) Which of the following was NOT one of the three main types of musical composition in the seventeenth century,as mentioned in the text?
A)sonata
B)minuet
C)suite
D)concerto
Q4) Explain the fundamental ideas of Bacon,Descartes,and Locke.
Q5) List the central figures of the Scientific Revolution and their contributions.
Q6) Discuss the impact of the Scientific Revolution on European art and music.
Q7) Differentiate between inductive and deductive reasoning.
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Chapter 24: The Enlightenment
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Q1) ________,a new literary genre,provided penetrating commentary on current events and social behavior,as popularized in the newspapers and periodicals of the day.
A)The encyclopedia
B)The novel
C)The journalistic essay
D)The travelogue
Q2) Which of the following is considered a writer whose works formed the wellspring of philosophical thought in the era and was highly influential upon Jefferson as well as Montesquieu?
A)John Locke
B)Thomas Hobbes
C)Adam Smith
D)Diderot
Q3) According to Hobbes,the collective safety of society lay in its willingness to submit to a higher authority,which Hobbes called
A)God's designates.
B)the Church.
C)the Leviathan.
D)the new clergy.
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Chapter 25: The Limits of Reason
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Q1) The first production sector of the English economy to undergo transformation towards machinery was
A)transportation.
B)coal-mining.
C)textiles.
D)agriculture.
Q2) American Eli Whitney invented which of the following in 1792?
A)the power loom
B)the steam engine
C)the cotton gin
D)the Bessemer process
Q3) Discuss the original purpose and the nature of transatlantic slave trade.
Q4) ________,whose classic satires,Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal,attack the moral pettiness and inhumanity of humankind.
A)Jonathan Swift
B)Olaudah Equiano
C)Voltaire
D)William Hogarth
Q5) Examine the revolt against reason in the writings of Rousseau and Kant in a short essay.
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Chapter 26: Eighteenth-Century Art,music,and Society
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Q1) The Rococo style was created by and for the upper class.Marked by luxury and elegance,the style's name itself derives from rocaille,French for the fancy rock or shell-work that was commonly used to ornament aristocratic gardens and grottoes.Meant for small parties of the nobility,Rococo art preserved the ornate and luxuriant features of the baroque style,but favored elements of play and intimacy that were best realized in works of a small scale,such as porcelain figurines,furniture,and paintings suitable for domestic quarters.
Q2) Which of the following was the English pottery-maker famous for Classical motifs?
A)Adam
B)Soufflot
C)Houdon
D)Wedgwood
Q3) Which of the following is a musical composition for an unaccompanied keyboard or other instrument with only keyboard accompaniment?
A)symphony
B)concerto
C)sonata
D)quartet
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Chapter 27: The Romantic View of Nature
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Q1) ________ argued that by means of natural selection,all living things including human beings evolved from a few simple forms: species either develop into higher forms of life or fail to survive.
A)Jung
B)Freud
C)Darwin
D)Leakey
Q2) ________ compared the elemental forces of nature with the creative powers of the poet.
A)Wordsworth
B)Shelley
C)Blake
D)Wordsworth,Shelley,and Blake all made this comparison.
Q3) In the art of ________,the native populations and traditions of America are lovingly documented.
A)Constable
B)Catlin
C)Corot
D)Wordsworth
Q4) Detail the intellectual contributions of Hegel and Darwin.
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Chapter 28: The Romantic Hero
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Q1) Write a brief essay on the extraordinary career of Napoleon and his influence on the art world of his day.
Q2) The most famous antislavery novel in America was which of the following?
A)The Underground Railroad
B)Little Nell
C)Uncle Tom's Cabin
D)Gone With the Wind
Q3) ________ remarkable career became a model for heroic action propelled by an unbounded imagination and ambition.
A)Thomas Jefferson's
B)Prosper Johns'
C)Lord Byron's
D)Napoleon's
Q4) The defeat of Napoleon's second army happened at which of the following locations?
A)Waterloo
B)Lieges
C)Moscow
D)the Ardennes Forest
Q5) Explain the role and influence of nationalism on nineteenth-century culture.
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Chapter 29: The Romantic Style in Art and Music
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Q1) Discuss the significance and definition of Romantic dance and opera.
Q2) Musical pieces (often short)that have an improvised sound in spite of their carefully written notation are called
A)études.
B)impromptus.
C)nocturnes.
D)treatments.
Q3) ________ was a new,flamboyant spectacle of the era that united all aspects of theatrical production: music,dance,stage sets,and costumes.
A)The musical
B)The concerto
C)The leitmotif
D)Opera
Q4) Discuss the basic characteristics of the Romantic style in art and music.
Q5) Examine the principal exponents of heroic and nationalistic themes in the visual arts: Gros,Géricault,Goya,Delacroix,Bartholdi,and Rude.
Q6) Examine the principal exponents of the Romantic style in music: Beethoven,Schubert,Berlioz,and Chopin.
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Chapter 30: Industry,Empire,and the Realist Style
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Q1) Which of the following was the Norwegian dramatist who shocked his contemporary audiences with such subject matters as incest,insanity,and venereal disease?
A)Ibsen
B)Zola
C)Flaubert
D)Dickens
Q2) Paxton's ________,the world's first prefabricated cast-iron structure,offered a prophetic glimpse into the decades that would produce steel-framed skyscrapers.
A)Golden Gate Bridge
B)Pennsylvania Station
C)Eiffel Tower
D)Crystal Palace
Q3) In painting,________ led the realist movement with canvases depicting the activities of humble and commonplace men and women.
A)Talbot
B)Courbet
C)Cameron
D)Brady
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Chapter 31: The Move Toward Modernism
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Q1) Louis Comfort Tiffany is famous for advancing the "new art" in which of the following mediums?
A)art glass
B)jewelry
C)porcelain
D)furniture
Q2) Which of the following was famous for his posters of Parisian nightlife?
A)Cassatt
B)Toulouse-Lautrec
C)Renoir
D)Degas
Q3) Explain how postimpressionism reflects the art-for-art's-sake spirit.
Q4) ________ presented a positive view of life as a vital impulse that evolved creatively and intuitively.
A)Bergson
B)Nietzsche
C)Hegel
D)Renoir
Q5) List some of the major figures of late nineteenth-century philosophy and literature,and their importance.
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Chapter 32: The Modernist Assault
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Q1) Discuss the role of film as an early modern phenomenon. D.W.Griffith,the leading director of his time,made major innovations in cinematic technique.He introduced the use of multiple cameras and camera angles,as well as such new techniques as close-ups,fade-outs,and flashbacks,which,when joined together in an edited sequence,greatly expanded the potential of film narrative and mirrored the developments in modern art,such as cubism.Cinematographers began to use the camera not simply as a disinterested observer,but as a medium for conveying the emotional states of the characters.By 1925 it was apparent that film was destined to become one of the major art forms of the modern erA.Film has proven itself as both a refined artistic medium as well as a vehicle for popular entertainment.Film has paralleled all major movements in art,from total abstraction,to Dada,to impressionism,to cubism,among others.The medium itself is a reflection of modern conceptions of time and space,recording a stream of individual moments that add up to a story.
Q2) Prairie School architecture and a clear influence from Japanese structure were the signatures of A)Sullivan.
B)Wright.
C)Kandinsky.
D)Gropius.
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Chapter 33: The Freudian Revolution
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Q1) One of modernism's most distinctive movements,________ was devoted to giving physical expression to the workings of the unconscious mind.
A)surrealism
B)realistic Fantasia
C)performance art
D)assemblage
Q2) The ________ movement,founded in Switzerland,consisted of a loosely knit group of European painters and poets who,perceiving WWI as evidence of a world gone mad,dedicated themselves to spreading the gospel of irrationality.
A)Bauhaus
B)Pop
C)Dada
D)Abstract
Q3) Edvard Munch's The Scream exemplifies which of the following schools of painting?
A)the baroque
B)op Art
C)expressionism
D)abstract art
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Chapter 34: Total War,Totalitarianism,and the Arts
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Q1) The Allied forces alliance of the First World War did NOT include which of the following?
A)Great Britain
B)the Ottoman Empire
C)France
D)Belgium
Q2) Give specific examples of the impact of World Wars I and II on literature,the visual arts,and music.
Q3) World War I (WWI)was the first ________ war in world history.
A)European
B)total
C)civil
D)multinational
Q4) John Steinbeck's classic Depression-era novel of migrant farmers en route to California is called which of the following?
A)Of Mice and Men
B)The Sound and the Fury
C)Ironweed
D)The Grapes of Wrath
Q5) Discuss the historical significance and consequences of World War I.
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Chapter 35: The Quest for Meaning
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Q1) The American behavioral psychologist ________ anticipated a society in which the behavior of human beings might be scientifically engineered for the benefit of both the individual and the community.
A)Orwell
B)Bradbury
C)Huxley
D)Skinner
Q2) Describe the unique stylistic features of painting,architecture,music,and dance at mid-century.
Q3) Which of the following was one of the few famous American representative painters from the period covered in the chapter?
A)Segal
B)Giacometti
C)Hopper
D)Bergman
Q4) Describe the postwar cultural boom in America.
Q5) Explain how existential literature reflects the quest for meaning at mid-century.
Q6) Explain the basic arguments of Sartrean existentialism.
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Chapter 36: Liberation and Equality
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Q1) While difficult to define,the musical concept of ________ may best be described as the practice of playing just off the beat-slightly ahead or behind.
A)the blues
B)jazz
C)ragtime
D)swing
Q2) The quest for an autonomous Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent resulted in the creation of an independent ________ in 1947.
A)Bangladesh
B)Pakistan
C)Ceylon
D)Sri Lanka
Q3) Discuss the quest for racial equality and its proponents in the arts.
Q4) Chronicle the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity in the arts.
Q5) Discuss the quest for gender equality as reflected in feminist literature and art.
Q6) Highlight African-American achievements in the visual arts and in music.
Q7) Explain the quest for liberation in colonial Latin America.
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Chapter 37: The Information Age
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Q1) The two key contributing factors to today's historical age as explained by the text are
A)transglobal communications and computers.
B)television and computers.
C)television and cell phones.
D)television and the European Union.
Q2) A classic kind of total art,________,was pioneered by the American artist Allan Kaprow (1927-2006).Kaprow,who coined the name for this conceptual genre,called it "a performance that occurs in a given time and space."
A)the Happening
B)the Be-in
C)performance art
D)total art
Q3) Discuss the ways in which new directions in science and philosophy have influenced information age culture.
Q4) Differentiate among the wide variety of postmodern styles: pop art,assemblage,minimalism,neorealism,total art,and video art.
Q5) Describe the basic features of postmodern architecture,opera,and dance.
Q6) Explain the basic features of postmodern literature and magic realism.
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Chapter 38: Globalism
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Q1) ________ is art in which the computer is employed as a primary tool,medium,or creative partner.
A)Digital art
B)Computer art
C)Viewer art
D)Video art
Q2) Chronicle the impact of the computer on the arts.
Q3) Perhaps the most intriguing computer-driven form of interactive art is ________,a technology that allows the user to interact with a computer-simulated environment.
A)object-oriented design
B)the matrix
C)virtual reality
D)computer-aided design (CAD)
Q4) An ongoing counterpoint to globalism is the recurring emphasis in the arts regarding which of the following?
A)nationalism
B)ethnicity
C)religiosity
D)anarchy
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