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Modern World History explores the major events, movements, and transformations that have shaped the global landscape from the late eighteenth century to the present. The course examines significant developments such as revolutions, imperialism, world wars, decolonization, the Cold War, globalization, and technological advancements. Emphasis is placed on understanding the interconnectedness of regions, the impact of political and economic changes on societies, and the diverse perspectives and experiences of people around the world. By analyzing primary sources and historical interpretations, students gain a deeper appreciation for the complexity of the modern era and its continuing influence on current global issues.
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) Which of the following is NOT a Semitic language?
A)Hebrew
B)Phoenician
C)Aramaic
D)Sumerian
E)Akkadian
Answer: D
Q2) The first simplified alphabet,containing only twenty-two letters,was created by the A)Mesopotamians.
B)Assyrians.
C)Hebrews.
D)Phoenicians.
E)Babylonians.
Answer: D
Q3) The powerful Babylonian king who formulated a sophisticated law code was Hammurabi.
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 New Kingdom was a powerful Egyptian state created after the Hyksos were pushed out of power.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The most vigorous of all New Kingdom pharaohs was ________,who led his troops into Palestine and Syria and who even received tribute from the Mesopotamian city-states.
A)Ahmose I
B)Menes
C)Sargon of Akkad
D)Tuthmosis III
E)Hatshepsut
Answer: D
Q3) Osiris was the Egyptian god of the underworld.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Early Societies in South and East Asia
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Q1) Most of our information about the early Aryans comes from the A)Upanishads.
B)Vedas.
C)Dasas.
D)Rajas.
E)Book of Songs.
Answer: B
Q2) The Aryans were
A)the priestly class of the Harappan society.
B)Chinese merchants.
C)the political remnants of the Harappan kings.
D)Indo-Europeans.
E)Germanic invaders.
Answer: D
Q3) The "mandate of heaven" was the Chinese ideal that expressed the right to govern.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Look at Map 4.1,Early Mesoamerican societies,1200B.C.E.-1100C.E.What was the geographical relationship between the Olmecs,Maya,and Teotihuacan? Were the contributions of these societies influenced by geography?
Q2) One of the earliest Andean states,which left a remarkable artistic legacy through its ceramics,was
A)Chavín.
B)Teotihuacan.
C)San Lorenzo.
D)Mochica.
E)Maya.
Q3) The Maya attributed great significance to the amount of time it took the solar and ritual calendars to simultaneously return to their respective starting points.This event took place every ________ solar years.
A)10
B)26
C)52
D)76
E)88
Q4) Describe the origins,development,and decline of the Lapita society.
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Chapter 5: The Empires of Persia
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Q1) What agricultural technologies and techniques did the Persians use to produce the large surpluses they needed to feed their huge population of nonfood producers?
Q2) Why does the text say that Darius was "more important as an administrator than as a conqueror"?
Q3) Zarathustra viewed the material world as A)an illusion.
B)a trick of Angra Mainyu to mislead the faithful.
C)the equivalent of hell.
D)a gift from Ahura Mazda that should be enjoyed.
E)a resting place for the reincarnated.
Q4) The Medes and Persians were originally
A)Indo-European peoples.
B)Semitic-speaking nomads related to the Hyksos.
C)later Mesopotamian petty kingdoms.
D)Dravidian tribes who had fled before the arrival of the Aryans in India.
E)minor Babylonian rulers.
Q5) Look at the carving of Darius on page 89.How does it reflect the hierarchy of government and the power of the Achaemenid empire under Darius? Is the location of the carving significant?
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Chapter 6: The Unification of China
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Q1) How does Daoism contrast with Confucianism?
Q2) Shang Yang and Han Feizi hoped to control China's subjects
A)through religious devotion.
B)through ruthless strengthening and expansion of the state.
C)by adhering to certain classic Confucian concepts such as ren and li.
D)with a well-meaning government designed to bring out the inherent goodness of human beings.
E)by building peasant support through democratic reforms.
Q3) The Qin and Han dynasties
A)copied the ruling techniques of the Aryans.
B)did not push for centralization as thoroughly as the Achaemenids did.
C)imposed order on India.
D)never mastered the administrative brilliance and unification of the Zhou period.
E)went further than the Persian emperors in their efforts to foster cultural unity.
Q4) What were the fundamental principles of Legalism,and how do these differ from those of Confucianism and Daoism?
Q5) How did the educational system develop in China during this period?
Q6) How did the early Han contribute to the unification of China?
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Chapter 7: State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
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Q1) 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?
Q2) Siddhartha Gautama was the Buddha.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Bhagavad Gita is the work containing a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Examine the carving of the boddhisatva Avalokitesvara on page 130.What is the theory behind the boddhisatva? Can you think of any similar religious concepts?
Q5) Compare the unification of India with the unification process in China under the Qin and Han dynasties,and in southwest Asia under the Assyrians and Persians.
Q6) The Ramayana is an Indian epic in which the subordinate position of women is demonstrated.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Mediterranean Society Under the Greeks and the Romans
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Q1) In the early period of Roman expansion,the principal power in the western Mediterranean was the A)Greeks.
B)Etruscans.
C)Persians.
D)Gauls.
E)Carthaginians.
Q2) Greek law regarded all slaves as
A)a criminal class that must be held in captivity to prevent social unrest.
B)an ethnically inferior people.
C)free peoples who owed a debt to society that must be repaid.
D)the private chattel property of their owners.
E)people working toward their freedom by aiding societal development.
Q3) What is Socrates' view of death? .How does this view relate to his pursuit of truth? How did it relate to his own death?
Q4) Julius Caesar was the leader who reunified the Roman world and began the pax romana.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What part did slaves play in Athens and Sparta? How did Greek law treat slaves?
Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads
During the Late Classical ERA
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Q1) Who among the following recorded the suffering of Christians caused by epidemic diseases in his On Mortality?
A)Aristotle
B)St.Augustine
C)Constantine
D)Mani
E)St.Cyprian
Q2) Odovacer was the Visigoth leader who sacked Rome in 410C.E.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What developments in the classical era helped reduce the risks inherent in long-distance trade?
Q4) What were the major achievements of the Roman empire? How influential were the Romans on later history?
Q5) Examine the establishment of the silk roads.How did increased trade along these routes influence the participating societies?
Q6) Examine Map 9.2,which details the spread of Buddhism,Hinduism,and Christianity.Now compare this map to Map 9.1.How was the spread of these religions tied to the trade routes?
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Chapter 10: The Christian Commonwealth of Byzantium
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Q1) In what ways did Byzantium carry on the legacy of Rome? What was Justinian's dream? In what ways was Byzantium different from Rome?
Q2) St.Basil of Caesarea
A)played a key role in the rise of monasticism.
B)excommunicated the pope and began the split inside Catholicism.
C)worked out a compromise between the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.
D)began the movement known as iconoclasm.
E)was the first and most famous of the "pillar saints."
Q3) Basil II crushed the Bulgars in 1014 at the Battle of A)Manzikert.
B)Kleidion.
C)Constantinople.
D)Kerbala.
E)Hagia Sophia.
Q4) Look at the picture of the church of Hagia Sophia on page 185.What can we learn about the splendor of Justinian's reign from this picture? What is Hagia Sophia used for today,and what does this use tell us about the fate of Byzantium?
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Chapter 11: The Expansive Realm of Islam
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Q1) In 595,Muhammad married a wealthy widow and entered into the ranks of elite Arabic society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After the assassination of Ali,power fell to the A)Umayyad dynasty.
B)Saljuq Turks.
C)Abbasid dynasty.
D)Byzantine empire.
E)Roman empire.
Q3) Increased agricultural production contributed to the rapid growth of cities in all parts of the Islamic world,from India to Spain.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the implications of Muhammad's role as the "seal of the prophets." What other prophets were considered important in Islam?
Q5) What is the significance of the hajj to Islamic religion and culture?
Q6) What factors contributed to the expansion of Islamic overland and maritime trade?
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Chapter 12: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
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Q1) The Sui construction of which of these items would have important economic implications until the twentieth century?
A)Grand Canal
B)Great Wall
C)first printing press
D)modern banking industry
E)Royal Road
Q2) Examine the evolution of early Japanese society.How were the Japanese influenced by China? In what ways was Japan unique?
Q3) What agricultural developments helped to transform the Chinese economy?
Q4) Examine the technological innovations of the Tang and Song periods.How did these innovations change the shape of Chinese history?
Q5) The Tang rulers organized China into a powerful and productive society during their three-hundred-year rule.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Compare the effects of Chinese imperial expansion and cultural influence on Japan and Korea.Which land adopted Chinese ways more thoroughly,and why?
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Chapter 13: India and the Indian Ocean Basin
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Q1) Which of the following Indian concepts did NOT become popular in the southeast Asian states influenced by India?
A)Hinduism
B)the caste system
C)literary classics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata
D)conducting official business in Sanskrit
E)the creation of established positions for administrators and bureaucrats
Q2) King Harsha permanently restored unified rule to most of India and sought to revive imperial authority.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Islam reached India by all of the following routes EXCEPT
A)conquest by Arabic invaders.
B)missionaries sent by Guru Kabir.
C)Islamic merchants.
D)migrations from Turkic-speaking peoples from central Asia.
E)conquest by Arabic invaders and missionaries sent by Harsha.
Q4) To what extent did Indian culture penetrate southeast Asia before the arrival of Muslim traders in the eighth century?
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Chapter 14: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
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Q1) The consolidation of Mongol rule in China came during the reign of Chaghatai,one of Chinggis Khan's sons.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did the Turks come to topple the Byzantine empire?
Q3) Which of the following religions did NOT ever become popular among the nomadic Turkish tribes?
A)Hinduism
B)Buddhism
C)Nestorian Christianity
D)Islam
E)Manichaeism
Q4) Commerce ground to a halt in the ilkhanate of Persia in the 1290s after A)the government issued paper money.
B)the introduction of the bubonic plague.
C)a devastating Turkish invasion.
D)the conversion of Ilkhan Ghazan to Nestorian Christianity.
E)the success of the fifth crusade.
Q5) Through what means did the Mongols integrate Eurasian cultures? List and explain at least five ways they did this.
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Chapter 15: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) A Bantu district,which consisted of a group of villages,
A)was headed by a powerful greater chief.
B)was ruled by a district council.
C)was usually not ruled by a chief or by a larger government.
D)never numbered more than a few hundred in total population.
E)was a tightly centralized structure under a core of educated bureaucrats.
Q2) Which food,first domesticated in southeast Asia,provided a nutritious supplement to Bantu diets and allowed the Bantu to expand into forested regions?
A)yams
B)wheat
C)potatoes
D)bananas
E)pineapples
Q3) Griots were
A)the legendary kings of Mali.
B)aqueducts that were essential for life in the oasis towns of the Sahara.
C)singers and storytellers.
D)Swahili slave traders.
E)tribal shamans.
Q4) What role did the rise and development of slavery play in sub-Saharan Africa?
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Chapter 16: Christian Western Europe During the Middle Ages
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Q1) The collapse of the Roman empire and invasions by migratory peoples wrecked European society and their economy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following fell to the Turks in 1144?
A)Constantinople
B)Jerusalem
C)Edessa
D)Palestine
E)Antioch
Q3) Examine the origins and growth of the Holy Roman Empire.What were its strengths and its main limitations?
Q4) Describe the popular heresies that arose during the high middle ages in Europe and the reactions of the church and government authorities.
Q5) Chivalry was a formal and widely recognized code of ethics and behavior considered appropriate for nobles.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) How did the development of chivalry affect the noble classes?
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Chapter 17: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Which of the societies of North America had developed settled agriculture by the fifteenth century? What kind of agriculture was typical?
Q2) 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?
Q3) The capital of the Inca empire was
A)Teotihuacan.
B)Tula.
C)Cuzco.
D)Chimu.
E)Chanchan.
Q4) Examine Map 17.1,The Toltec and Aztec empires,950-1520C.E.What was the relationship between these societies? How did they influence each other? Why were the Aztecs able to put together such a large empire?
Q5) Look at the picture of Nan Madol on page 323.What does the building of this structure tell you about the evolution of religious and political concepts in Oceania?
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Chapter 18: Cross-Cultural Interactions
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Q1) Humanist moral philosophers believed that
A)people should withdraw from the world and dedicate themselves to prayer.
B)the thought of the middle ages was much more pure than the scandalous ideas of the Renaissance.
C)people could lead morally virtuous lives while participating in the world.
D)the ideals of the Greeks and Romans should be shunned because they were pagan.
E)intellectual and moral excellence was dependent on a Byzantine model.
Q2) As a result of the bubonic plague,the population of Europe dropped from seventy-nine million in 1300 to around ________ in 1400.
A)seventy-five million
B)sixty million
C)forty million
D)fifteen million
E)twenty-five million
Q3) How did the Ming dynasty rebuild the economy of China?
Q4) Examine the reinvigoration of Europe in the later middle ages.How was it different from the reinvigoration of China during the same period?
Q5) What did Columbus hope to accomplish when he set forth across the Atlantic in 1492? What did he achieve?
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Chapter 19: Transoceanic Encounters and Global
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Q1) The VOC was the
A)English East India Company.
B)indirect trade route that Portuguese mariners used to take advantage of wind patterns.
C)Portuguese missionary organization that spread Christianity along the trade routes.
D)United East India Company.
E)European multinational organization,Victory Over China,that focused on Asian expansion.
Q2) The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to A)force the native populations to convert to Christianity.
B)form alliances with Chinese princes to take advantage of the large Chinese navy.
C)force merchant ships to call at fortified trading sites and pay duties.
D)conquer territories and bring them permanently into their growing empire.
E)take advantage of their huge population to overwhelm their adversaries.
Q3) The settlers who established a Russian presence in Siberia included social misfits,convicted criminals,and even prisoners of war.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: The Transformation of Europe
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Q1) 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?
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) The system by which unfinished materials were delivered to rural households for production is known as the
A)guild system.
B)joint-stock company system.
C)union system.
D)putting-out system.
E)countryside system.
Q4) The Ptolemaic universe was based on
A)the idea that the earth rested on the back of a giant turtle.
B)a motionless earth surrounded by nine hollow spheres.
C)a heliocentric structure.
D)the unifying principle of gravity.
E)the observations of Galileo.
Q5) 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) What was distinctive about the European exploration and settlement of Australia?
Q2) How is the story of Doña Marina representative of the collapse of Mesoamerican and South American societies?
Q3) The last emperor of the Inca empire was
A)Motecuzoma II.
B)Atahualpa.
C)Topa Inca.
D)Viracocha.
E)Pachacuti.
Q4) The population of the Caribbean went from about 4 million in 1492 to ________ in the 1540s.
A)8 million
B)5 million
C)4 million
D)2 million
E)a few thousand
Q5) Examine the exploration and colonization of Australia and Oceania.Compare and contrast it to the European settlement of the Americas.
Q6) What became of the Taino people of the Caribbean?
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Q1) Examine the picture of Queen Nzinga on page 415.How does her struggle with the Portuguese represent the African response to the Europeans? Was she a typical woman of the age? What role did Doña Beatriz play in the religious world of Africa?
Q2) The part of the slave trade that was the trans-Atlantic journey was called the "middle passage."
A)True
B)False
Q3) All Songhay emperors were
A)Zoroastrian.
B)Christian.
C)Muslim.
D)Antonian.
E)traditional animistic.
Q4) Relate the American concept of "life,liberty,and the pursuit of happiness" to slavery.How did these two concepts coexist?
Q5) Consider the creation of an African-American culture and society.Compare this to other examples of cultural melding.
Q6) 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) The term "floating worlds" originally related to
A)the entertainment and pleasure districts of cities such as Osaka.
B)a Japanese attempt to understand the advanced technology as part of the "Dutch learning."
C)the Tokugawa emphasis on "alternate residences."
D)a Japanese attempt during the "native learning" period to re-instill enthusiasm in Buddhism.
E)the Chinese view of heaven.
Q2) Look at the Map 23.2,The Qing empire,1644-1911.Discuss Qing expansion.How much control did the Qing have over east Asia?
Q3) The Great Wall of China was a project of the Yuan dynasty during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Confucian tradition ranked three broad classes of commoners below the gentry: peasants,artisans,and merchants.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What factors led to rapid population growth in China?
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Q1) In the three hundred years after 1500,the population of India grew from 105 million to A)115 million.
B)125 million.
C)190 million.
D)230 million.
E)285 million.
Q2) Central to the belief of Twelver Shiism was the idea that A)any true believer could be the leader of the Islamic world. B)the twelfth infallible imam was still alive and would return to spread his faith.
C)Ali had betrayed the prophet Muhammad and therefore his descendants could not rule.
D)there were twelve principle manifestations of Allah.
E)there were Twelve Commandments.
Q3) In the selection from Babur ,what is Babur's opinion of India? How does this view relate to some of the problems that would haunt India later during the Mughal rule? Compare Babur's view of India to that of Akbar.
Q4) By what steps did Shah Abbas achieve a strong and unified Safavid state?
Q5) What factors led to the economic and military decline of the Islamic empires?
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Chapter 25: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
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Q1) The English philosopher John Locke formulated one of the most influential theories of contractual government by introducing the idea of popular sovereignty.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The only successful slave revolt in history took place in
A)Brazil.
B)Saint-Domingue.
C)Cuba.
D)Virginia.
E)Mexico.
Q3) Napoleon's Civil Code
A)gave absolute free speech to French newspapers.
B)was a modern restatement of Justinian's Corpus iuris civilis.
C)affirmed the political and legal equality of all adult men.
D)had at its core the radical measures of the Convention.
E)reduced patriarchal authority and gave more equality to women.
Q4) Read the excerpts from The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen .What ideals of the Enlightenment are expressed? How revolutionary was this document? How can the influence of Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence be seen?
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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) Beyond expanding,what else was happening to the population of the industrializing world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
Q3) Count Sergei Witte was the Russian
A)foreign minister whose disastrous trade policies blocked Russian advancement.
B)nobleman who stood as the chief obstacle to Russian industrialization.
C)nobleman who seized the throne after economic collapse.
D)radical who founded the Bolsheviks.
E)finance minister who pushed for industrialization.
Q4) What was the impact of western industrialism on the nonindustrial countries of Asia,Africa,and the Americas?
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Chapter 27: The Americas in the Age of Independence
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Q1) Look maps 27.1 and 27.2 (Westward expansion of the United States during the nineteenth century,and The Dominion of Canada in the nineteenth century).Compare and contrast the expansion of the United States and Canada.What were the important sectional differences? How would it be possible for these huge,complex countries to create a sense of unity? Consider their relationship with each other.
Q2) Summarize the steps by which Canada became politically united and independent of Britain.How was the government of the Dominion of Canada like and unlike that of the United States?
Q3) Examine the economic development of the Americas in the nineteenth century.Were there any similarities in the different approaches? Why did some areas end up wealthier than others? Which of the areas would be in the best shape to compete in the twentieth century?
Q4) Who called for regional autonomy in an attempt to reconcile competing interests in Argentina?
A)Porfirio Díaz
B)Juan Manuel de Rosas
C)Emiliano Zapata
D)Benito Juárez
E)Simón Bolívar
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Chapter 28: The Building of Global Empires
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Q1) Examine imperialism in Africa.What were the major goals of the Europeans? Why was Africa treated differently than other colonies? How did the carving up of Africa lead to tension among the European nations?
Q2) The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over A)Burma.
B)Korea.
C)Mongolia.
D)Vietnam.
E)Siberia.
Q3) What were the principal "tools of empire"-the various technologies that gave the Europeans such an advantage?
Q4) Because the nomadic peoples of Australia did not occupy lands permanently,British settlers considered the continent terra nullius,"land belonging to no one," and one that they could seize and put to their own uses.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Examine the racist beliefs that played such a central role in European imperialism.How did racism justify imperialism and also inspire it?
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Chapter 29: The Great War: The World in Upheaval
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Q1) The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins,language,and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states was
A)utopian socialism.
B)positive nationalism.
C)democratic republicanism.
D)Fabianism.
E)self-determination.
Q2) The Somme was
A)the battle in 1914 that halted the German Schlieffen plan.
B)a huge German offensive against the French lines in 1916.
C)a disastrous Italian defeat that destroyed any hope for an Italian invasion of Austria.
D)the first great American victory of the war.
E)an English assault in 1916 that gained a few thousand yards.
Q3) How did the imperialistic rivalries of the European powers contribute to international tensions before World War I? Be specific.
Q4) What factors caused the Russian revolutions in March and November of 1917? What changes emerged initially from these revolutions?
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Chapter 30: An Age of Anxiety
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Q1) In response to the Great Depression,John Maynard Keynes
A)proposed that the government should do nothing and wait out the economic hard times.
B)was a big supporter of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
C)felt that the government should tighten the money supply.
D)wrote that capitalism had failed and that it was time for the United States to experiment with communism.
E)urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs.
Q2) Compare the rise to power and consolidation of power by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
Q3) In Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans,he
A)laid the groundwork for the rise of fascism in Italy.
B)shocked the Christian world by stressing the importance of material progress above everything else.
C)suggested that Jesus' ideas were a precursor to communism.
D)attacked the liberal Christian theology that had embraced the idea of progress.
E)gave a religious foundation for the ideas of the social Darwinists.
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Chapter 31: Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
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Q1) Which of the following refers to "land of the pure"?
A)India
B)Soviet Union
C)Korea
D)Pakistan
E)Manchuria
Q2) Maoism was
A)a political ideology that held that the urban proletariat was the foundation for a successful communist revolution.
B)solely an economic policy based on encouraging agrarian growth in China.
C)solely an economic plan that encouraged the growth of industry in China.
D)a political ideology that held that peasants were the foundation for a successful communist revolution.
E)a foreign policy agenda that actively encouraged open relations with democratic Western powers.
Q3) Examine U.S.President Woodrow Wilson's concept of the self-determination of nations.Why did it have such a profound impact,in the years following World War I,on Asia,Africa,and Latin America? How,specifically,did it contribute to the rise of nationalism and political identities in Asia,Africa,and Latin America?
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Chapter 32: New Conflagrations: World War II
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Q1) 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?
Q2) Operation Barbarossa was the
A)British plan for a counter invasion of Germany.
B)German plan for an invasion of France through Belgium.
C)Polish operation designed to steal the secret German code machine.
D)German plan for an invasion of the Soviet Union.
E)American plan for a landing at Normandy in northern France.
Q3) The U.S.secret weapon in the Pacific campaign was
A)an almost three-to-one advantage in aircraft carriers.
B)its alliance with the Soviets.
C)its possession of the atomic bomb from 1941 on.
D)massive military aid from Korea and Vietnam.
E)a code-breaking operation known as Magic.
Q4) Examine the early German successes in World War II.Why was Hitler so successful? What was Germany's high point? How close was Hitler to total victory? What were the turning points in World War II? What mistakes did Hitler make? How quickly did the tide turn against Germany? Discuss the end of the war.
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Chapter 33: The Cold War and Decolonization
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Q1) The German Democratic Republic
A)was formed out of the British,French,and American zones of occupation.
B)was sealed off from its eastern half by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
C)prospered under American leadership.
D)was really under direct Chinese control.
E)was formed out of the Soviet zone of occupation.
Q2) Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika referred to A)openness.
B)"the great leap forward."
C)decentralizing the economy.
D)de-communism.
E)reeducation.
Q3) Discuss the origins of the cold war.What were the fundamental differences between the Soviet Union and the United States? What role did ideology play in the cold war? Examine the contrasting ideologies of the superpowers.
Q4) Look at the picture of Berliners climbing the Berlin Wall on page 653.How did the Berlin Wall symbolize the entire cold war?
Q5) Compare and contrast Nikita Khrushchev,Leonid Brezhnev,and Mikhail Gorbachev.In what ways did they influence the cold war?
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Chapter 34: A World Without Borders
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Q1) The Internet reinforces the contemporary fact that English has become the universal tongue of the twenty-first century.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are some of the significant nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)operating in the world since WWII? What causes do these groups address?
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 largest external migrations in the second half of the twentieth century consisted of refugees fleeing war.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In the 1970s,OPEC's policies concerning oil production and trade contributed to global economic growth.
A)True
B)False
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