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Modern World History explores the significant political, economic, social, and cultural transformations that have shaped the world from the late 15th century to the present. The course examines major events such as the Age of Exploration, the rise and fall of empires, revolutions, industrialization, colonialism, world wars, the Cold War, decolonization, and globalization. Through the analysis of historical sources and interpretive frameworks, students gain a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of global societies, the forces driving change, and the challenges and achievements of the modern era.
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Connections A World History Combined 2nd Edition by Edward
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Chapter 1: The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000 Bce
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of these was NOT a staple of agriculture in the Americas prior to 1400?
A) corn
B) squash
C) beans
D) barley
Answer: D
Q3) Cultural groups had no contact with each other during the Paleolithic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) What was required for the emergence of the first towns?
Answer: farming
Q5) What are the essential elements of a state?
Answer: territory and government
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Chapter 2: Early Societies of West Asia and North Africa, to 500 Bce
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Q1) Mesopotamian society was less given to conquest than Egyptian society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following does NOT apply to the Code of Hammurabi?
A) Penalties for crimes were based on the principle of retribution.
B) Punishments differed according to social status.
C) Property rights were valued very highly.
D) Women had no rights.
Answer: D
Q3) Which Egyptian pharaoh became known as Akhenaton?
A) Thutmosis III
B) Hatshepsut
C) Amenhotep III
D) Amenhotep IV
Answer: D
Q4) Horses remained the main form of military transport until World War II. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Societies and Beliefs of Early India, to 500 Ce
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Q1) The prophet and founder of Jainism was A) Siddhartha.
B) Ashoka.
C) Mahavira.
D) Ashvaghosha.
Answer: C
Q2) The people most likely to embrace Mahayana Buddhism were A) monks.
B) merchants.
C) Buddhist elders.
D) people who rejected the Fourth Great Council.
Answer: B
Q3) There is evidence to suggest that the Indus Valley peoples had connections with Mesopotamians.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Whose death made possible the rise of Chandragupta Maurya?
Answer: Alexander the Great
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Q1) Which philosophy became the official ideology of the Han dynasty?
A) Confucianism
B) Daoism
C) Legalism
D) Jainism
Q2) If a ruler has the Mandate of Heaven, which of these does he have the right to do?
A) rule justly and humanely
B) ignore the will of the gods
C) oppress the people
D) go against the Confucian code
Q3) Evaluate the role of women in Han society.
Q4) The Mandate of Heaven was first used by the Zhou.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why is more known about the Xia than the Shang dynasty?
A) The Shang is about a millennium earlier.
B) The Xia left no written records.
C) The Xia left no physical remains.
D) The Xia is known only from folklore, while the Shang far better documented.
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Chapter 5: Early American Societies: Connection and
Isolation, 20,000 Bce - 1500 Ce
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Q1) What is the significance of the archeological findings at Monte Verde?
A) The findings challenge earlier scholarship regarding the time period in which humans entered South America.
B) The findings challenge earlier scholarship regarding religious practices among Amerinds.
C) The findings challenge earlier scholarship regarding the arrival of Europeans in the Western hemisphere.
D) The findings challenge earlier scholarship regarding the writing system of the Maya.
Q2) The "Three Sisters" were cultivated in Mesoamerican and Mississippian societies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following does NOT accurately describe the Mayan civilization?
A) complex
B) scientific
C) contemplative
D) peaceful
Q4) Most Amerinds accept the idea that their ancestry is distinctly Asian.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) In the long term, who was the real winner of the Peloponnesian War?
A) Athens.
B) Lydia.
C) Sparta.
D) Persia.
Q2) Which of these Sasanian traditions was derived from Zoroastrian teachings?
A) polytheism
B) harsh subjugation of conquered peoples
C) the circle of equity
D) use of satrapies
Q3) Which of the following statements about King Shapur I is NOT True?
A) He made Zoroastrianism the state religion of Persia.
B) He tolerated the practice of Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism.
C) He conquered Mesopotamia in 256.
D) He suppressed ethnic groups through harsh legalism and a strong central government.
Q4) Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the influence of Zoroastrianism on other monotheistic religions.
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Chapter 7: Classical Greece and Its Expansion Into Asia,
2000-30 Bce
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Q1) Sparta and her allies formed the Delian League.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Communication was difficult in Ancient Greece because of
A) geographical barriers.
B) religious differences.
C) language differences.
D) political regulations.
Q3) Which man believed in a heliocentric universe?
A) Aristotle
B) Aristarchus
C) Archimedes
D) Ptolemy
Q4) What is known as the "suicide of Greece"?
A) the Persian Wars
B) Athenian dominance in the region
C) the Peloponnesian War
D) the unification of the Greek city-states
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Q5) Discuss the Persian Wars and the effect these wars had on western civilization.
Q6) Who said "the unexamined life is not worth living"?
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Chapter 8: The Romans Connect the Mediterranean World,
753 Bce - 284 Ce
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Q1) Roman law distinguished between civil and criminal procedures.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What were the greatest strength and weaknesses of the Roman Empire as a political system?
Q3) Which man founded the Flavian dynasty?
A) Nero
B) Vespasian
C) Constantine
D) Caesar
Q4) The main point of territorial conflict between Rome and Carthage was control of A) Crete.
B) Greece.
C) Egypt.
D) Sicily.
Q5) What happened on the Ides of March, 44 B.C.E.?
A) the battle of Actium
B) the suicide of Antony
C) the formation of the Second Triumvirate
D) the murder of Caesar
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Chapter 9: Germanic Societies and the Emergence of the
Christian West, 100-1100 Ce
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Q1) Peasant life centered on
A) fields, family, and church.
B) church, family, and state.
C) God, family, and friends.
D) labor, ale, and paganism.
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) The Eastern Church leaders never accepted the pope's authority.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is meant by the idea of papal primacy?
A) Popes are the spiritual descendents of Christ.
B) Only the popes can interpret the Bible.
C) Popes have authority over the whole Christian Church.
D) Popes have authority over the western church.
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Q5) What Visigothic leader was angered when the Romans did not give him a command post?
Chapter 10: The Byzantine World, 284-1240
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Q1) Which man believed that God created Christ, therefore, Christ was not equal with God?
Q2) Which of the following was NOT one of the four Eastern patriarchs?
A) Patriarch of Constantinople
B) Patriarch of Antioch
C) Patriarch of Alexandria
D) Patriarch of Rome
Q3) The boyars were the Russian
A) peasants.
B) commoners.
C) aristocrats.
D) farmers.
Q4) Which group of Christians believed that Jesus was purely divine?
A) Arians
B) Monophysites
C) Nestorians
D) Catholics
Q5) Justinian's Code made Byzantine law inflexible.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Origins and Expansion of Islam, 100-750
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Q1) Describe the interior of a mosque.
Q2) What arose from the choice of Uthman over Ali in 644?
A) the Abbasid dynasty
B) the Sunni-Shi'ite split
C) the spread of Islam in Arabia
D) the conquest of Persia
Q3) Who was responsible for the spread of the Muslim realms to Egypt and Persia?
A) Abu Bakr
B) Umar
C) Uthman
D) Muhammad
Q4) According to Muhammad, who built the Ka'ba?
A) Gabriel
B) Abraham
C) Moses
D) Muhammad
Q5) What is the umma?
Q6) Who was Muhammad's first wife?
Q7) Discuss the Sunni-Shi'ite division in Islam.
Q8) What is the name of the Islamic legal code?
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Chapter 12: Religion and Diversity in the Transformation of Southern
Asia, 711-1400
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Q1) Why did the Abbasid caliphate decide to move the capital eastward?
Q2) To what religion is Borobodur dedicated?
Q3) Who wrote The Rubaiyat?
A) Claudius Ptolemy
B) Omar Khayyam
C) Ibn Sina
D) al-Khwarizmi
Q4) Discuss the role of commerce in Islamic territories.
Q5) The mamluks were
A) mercenaries who rejected Islam.
B) Hindu warriors who defeated the caliphate.
C) Hindu slaves who converted to Islam and joined the caliph's army.
D) Turkish slaves trained as warriors.
Q6) The name "Sufism" originates from
A) the woolen clothing worn by its followers.
B) the region of the caliphate inhabited by its followers.
C) the man who started the faith.
D) Muhammad's fourth wife.
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Q8) Evaluate the factors which led to the decline of the Abbasid caliphate.
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Chapter 13: Early African Societies, 1500 Bce-1500 Ce
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Q1) What shared trait defines the Bantu peoples?
A) language
B) cattle-herding
C) mining techniques
D) origins in southern Africa
Q2) Discuss the effects of the trans-Saharan trade on West Africa.
Q3) Some African tribes believed that their chief was the only one who could communicate with the major deity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to legend, whose Christian kingdom could help crusaders fighting Muslims over control of the Holy Land?
A) Mansa Musa's
B) Prester John's
C) King Solomon's
D) Fatimid's
Q5) Discuss traditional African religious beliefs before the coming of Islam.
Q6) Discuss the blending of Hispano-Arab culture in Spain.
Q7) Discuss the remains of Great Zimbabwe.
Q8) Who are the Mbuti?
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Chapter 14: The Evolution and Expansion of East Asian
Societies, 220-1240 Ce
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Q1) The Japanese believed in divine spirits they called A) genji.
B) kami.
C) kana.
D) uji.
Q2) Compare and contrast early Confucianism and neo-Confucianism.
Q3) Just as Europeans turned to Christianity after the collapse of Rome, in the Age of Disunity, East Asians turned to A) Confucianism.
B) Daoism.
C) Shinto.
D) Buddhism
Q4) The rule of Emperor Taizong can be characterized as a period of A) revitalization.
B) ruinous war.
C) chaos.
D) peace.
Q5) Discuss Prince Shotoku's connections with China.
Q6) Which dynasty exerted its influence over Turkestan?
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Chapter 15: Nomadic Conquests and Eurasian
Connections, 1000-1400
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Q1) Which of these led to the disintegration of the Il-Khans, the Khanate of Jagadai and the Chinese Mongol dynasty?
A) the bubonic plague
B) dynastic succession conflicts
C) nationalist uprisings
D) religious differences
Q2) Because of their loss of status, hich of these were most resentful of Yuan rule in China?
A) Chinese women
B) Confucian scholars
C) Mongol warlords
D) Christian missionaries
Q3) Discuss the conquest of Russia by the Mongols.
Q4) Which of these cities gained in prominence as a result of the conquests of Batu Khan?
A) Kiev
B) Baghdad
C) Moscow
D) Tabriz
Q5) Evaluate the role of women in central Asian nomadic society.
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Chapter 16: The Resurgence of the Christian West, 1050-1530
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Q1) Who wrote Utopia?
Q2) Which of the following was NOT a European response to the Black Death?
A) witchcraft
B) indulgence in licentious pleasures
C) physical self-punishment
D) improved medical treatment
Q3) Maimonides and Ibn Rushd paved the way for Thomas Aquinas by
A) discovering applications for algebra.
B) trying to reconcile monotheism and classical philosophy.
C) rejecting reason and relying on divine inspiration.
D) showing that Aristotle was useless for Christian theology.
Q4) Which man believed that Catholicism had become too ritualistic, and favored a return to a simple piety?
A) Machiavelli
B) Petrarch
C) Castiglione
D) Erasmus
Q5) Thomas Aquinas was a leading scholastic theologian of the High Middle Ages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Culture and Conflict in the Great Islamic
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Q1) Suleiman's efforts in the judiciary indicated his belief that
A) all men are entitled to a trial by jury.
B) religious law is superior to state law.
C) the leader is above the law.
D) kanun law should apply equally to all, regardless of religion.
Q2) The Taj Mahal and Pearl Mosque were both
A) tombs for Shah Jahan's wives.
B) built along traditional Indian lines.
C) built in the traditional Mughal capital, Delhi.
D) a fusion of Persian form and Indian craftsmanship.
Q3) Kara Mustafa's most serious mistake was to attack A) Turkey.
B) Vienna.
C) Persia.
D) Rome.
Q4) The Taj Mahal is the greatest Sikh shrine in India.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Which Ottoman sultan was known both as "the Magnificent" and "the Lawgiver"?
Q6) What branch of Islam was the state religion of the Safavid Persians?
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Chapter 18: The Aztec and Inca Empires, 1300-1550
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Q1) Aztecs were traditionally less ruthless than the Incas.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The emperor was almost always a
A) warrior.
B) female.
C) judge.
D) priest.
Q3) When the Spaniards arrived, the Aztecs described them as A) devils appearing out of the earth.
B) riding in mountains floating on the sea.
C) gods with brown skin.
D) barbarians of no significance.
Q4) Evaluate the factors which led to Spanish victory over the Aztecs.
Q5) Who laid the foundations of the Inca Empire?
A) Viracocha
B) Pachacuti
C) Montezuma
D) Topa Inca Yupanqui
Q6) How did Montezuma's foreign policy differ from that of his brother?
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Q1) Discuss the costs and benefits of the Columbian Exchange.
Q2) What most distinguished the colonial nobles from commoners?
A) influence in the Catholic Church
B) ownership of great estates
C) slave ownership
D) superior education
Q3) Evaluate gender roles in Iberian societies in the Western hemisphere.
Q4) What effect did the Treaty of Tordesillas have on European commerce in the Eastern hemisphere?
A) It encouraged competition among the European powers.
B) It fostered cooperation among the European powers.
C) It allowed Portugal to avoid competition in the region.
D) It led to Spain and Portugal fighting for control of the Indies.
Q5) What was the goal of Christopher Columbus?
A) He wanted to find a route to the Indies by sailing westward.
B) He wanted to find a route to the Indies by sailing eastward.
C) He wanted to find a route to the Indies by going around Africa.
D) He wanted to conquer the Indies for the king of Spain.
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Q6) Compare and contrast the Iberian conquerors with the Mongols.
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Chapter 20: The West in an Age of Religious Conflict and Global Expansion, 1500-1650
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Q1) According to Catholic doctrine, a person who died before atoning for all of his sins was sent to
A) hell.
B) purgatory.
C) heaven.
D) paradise.
Q2) What is the significance of the Edict of Nantes?
A) It made Catholicism the official religion of France.
B) It granted freedom of worship and civil rights to French Protestants.
C) It ended the Thirty Years War in the Holy Roman Empire.
D) It made Catholicism the official religion of the Holy Roman Empire.
Q3) The Council of Trent can be said to have been which of these?
A) radically reformist
B) ready to compromise with Protestantism
C) divisive
D) conservative in theology but reformist in practices
Q4) What was the practice of pluralism?
Q5) The modern country of Belgium was once part of the Spanish Netherlands.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: The Search for Stability in East Asia, 1300-1800
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Q1) Why did Qianlong formally retire early?
Q2) Which of these resulted from the attack on the Mongols at Datong?
A) increasing threats from Japan
B) a long decline in Ming power began
C) the Mongols no longer threated China
D) the Ming extended their rule to Korea
Q3) Which dynasty stabilized Japan?
A) the Tokugawa
B) the Ming
C) the Yuan
D) the Yi
Q4) Zheng He was a former court eunuch and talented mariner.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was the White Lotus Society?
Q6) The Chinese government curtailed sea voyages in the 1400s because
A) they needed to focus their resources on the army.
B) they saw little benefit from connections with inferior foreigners.
C) the cost of piracy was too great.
D) Japan controlled the seas.
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Chapter 22: Southern Asia and the Global Shift in Wealth and
Power, 1500-1800
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Q1) Discuss the rise of Russia as a major eastern European power.
Q2) Who were the nawabs?
Q3) Which of the following best describes the relationship between the French East India Company and the British East India Company?
A) They worked together to establish European supremacy in India.
B) They largely ignored each other, as their knowledge of each other was limited.
C) They were bitter rivals.
D) They were started by the same European merchant.
Q4) Russia's victory over Sweden established Russian domination in Eastern Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did Persia differ from many other Muslim states in the 1700s?
A) Persia did not modernize.
B) Persia was more tolerant.
C) Persia had less wealth.
D) Persia westernized and modernized.
Q6) For whose return did the Shi'ites anxiously await?
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Q7) How did rivalries among powers in Europe play out in the Indian Ocean trading world?
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Chapter 23: Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1400-1800
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Q1) Europeans carried out the first part of the slave trading process which involved shackling and chaining slaves and marching them to the coast.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which European nation began the Atlantic slave trade?
Q3) Angola remained under Portuguese rule until
A) 1675.
B) 1775.
C) 1875.
D) 1975.
Q4) Which of these describes 15th century Central and South Africa?
A) deeply Islamic
B) city-states based on a commercial economy
C) commercial ties to North Africa
D) farming and herding with many stateless societies
Q5) What is the basis for classification according to race?
A) achievement
B) observed behavior
C) external appearance
D) religion
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Chapter 24: Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1600-1763
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Q1) Which English dynasty provoked a civil war with Parliament?
A) Hohenzollern
B) Habsburg
C) Stuart
D) Tudor
Q2) What was the major problem facing the Austrian empire in the late 1600s and after?
Q3) The English Parliament was reduced to about sixty members because many of its members
A) were killed in the English Civil War.
B) were Protestant.
C) were Catholic.
D) didn't favor executing the king and abolishing the monarchy.
Q4) Which man hypothesized that the planetary orbits are elliptical instead of circular?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Nicholas Copernicus
C) Johannes Kepler
D) René Descartes
Q5) What conflict led to the assertion of absolute royal power in France?
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Chapter 25: Russias Eurasian Empire: Convergence of East and West, 1300-1800
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Q1) Who financed the first conquests of Siberian lands?
A) the Romanovs
B) the Stroganov family
C) the Orthodox Church
D) the princes of Moscow
Q2) The Manchus and Chinese were offended by Russian envoys because the Russian envoys
A) wouldn't speak Chinese.
B) wouldn't participate in Buddhist rituals.
C) destroyed Confucian texts.
D) wouldn't kowtow.
Q3) The practice of "forbidden years" was part of trend to
A) strengthen the Russian monarchy.
B) move peasants towards serfdom.
C) challenge the power of the patriarch of Moscow.
D) westernization in Russia.
Q4) How did Peter the Great die?
Q5) Discuss the causes and of the Time of Troubles, and how the period came to an end.
Q6) Under whose rule did the schism in Russian Orthodoxy appear?
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Chapter 26: The North Atlantic Revolutions, 1750-1830
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Q1) Discuss Maximilien Robespierre and the Reign of Terror.
Q2) The Battle of Yorktown convinced the French to join the Revolutionary War.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who instituted France's Reign of Terror?
Q4) Representing 98% of the population, the Third Estate was given what proportion of votes in the Estates General?
A) one-quarter
B) one-third
C) one-half
D) three-quarters
Q5) Which of the following best illustrates the ideology of Metternich at Vienna?
A) Absolutist governments have no place in a modern Europe.
B) Enlightenment ideals must be carried out regardless of the cost.
C) European countries should return to their old leaders and royal families.
D) European countries should hold free election in accordance with the ideals of the Enlightenment.
Q6) The Stamp Act Congress called for a boycott of British goods.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What was the broad goal of the Chartists?
A) the end of the British monarchy
B) the end of laissez-faire economic policies
C) extension of Magna Carta
D) electoral reform
Q2) Which of these is an ideal of early liberals that would have been rejected by socialists?
A) laissez-faire governments
B) expansion of voting rights
C) economic competition
D) collective work
Q3) People who sought to maintain traditional institutions and customs were known as A) socialists.
B) nationalists.
C) liberals.
D) conservatives.
Q4) How did industrialization affect the growth of cities?
Q5) Discuss the effects of industrialization on Europe's labor force.
Q7) What were the Corn Laws? Page 34
Q6) Discuss the transformation of society brought about by industrialization.
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Chapter 28: Nation Building in the Americas, 1789-1914
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A) Peru.
B) Colombia.
C) Mexico.
D) Cuba.
Q2) The Porfiriato was a period of political liberalization and economic stagnation in Mexico.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of these represented Argentina's social divisions?
A) criollos and porteños
B) gauchos and porteños
C) porteños and peninsulares
D) gauchos and criollos
Q4) What sparked the Brazilian revolt against the monarchy?
A) the death of Pedro II
B) emancipation of Brazil's slaves
C) the oppressive rule of Princess Isabel
D) the persistence of slavery
Q5) What distinguished Brazil from other newly independent Latin American nations?
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Chapter 29: New Connections and Challenges in Eastern and
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Q2) Which of these nations allied with Japan against Russia in 1902?
A) Britain
B) France
C) Germany
D) China
Q3) Who trained the Indian sepoys?
Q4) In the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, Indonesia's commerce was controlled by the
A) British.
B) French.
C) Chinese.
D) Dutch.
Q5) Under the terms of the Treaty of Nanjing, what territory was ceded to Britain?
Q6) Compare and contrast Chinese and Japanese responses to Western influence.
Q7) The open-door policy was
A) an American policy calling for free and equal trade in China.
B) an American policy calling for free and equal trade in Japan.
C) a British policy calling for free and equal trade in China.
D) a British policy calling for free and equal trade in Japan. Page 37
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Chapter 30: New Connections and Challenges in West Asia and
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Q1) Muhammad Ali transformed Egypt into an industrial power.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During the Great War, Ottoman Turkey sided with A) Germany.
B) Britain.
C) Russia.
D) France.
Q3) Muhammad Ali did all of the following EXCEPT
A) create a modern army.
B) revolutionize Egypt's agriculture.
C) build Western-style public schools.
D) rely on the Mamluks for military support.
Q4) Who was the Muslim mystic that inspired resistance to the British in Egypt and the Sudan?
Q5) What West African people adopted Sufism and formed the Sokoto Caliphate?
Q6) Which European country gained control of South Africa?
Q7) What served as the most common industrial lubricant in the 1800s?
Q8) Evaluate the reasons for Ethiopian and Liberian independence during the age of imperialism. Page 39
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Chapter 31: The Great War and the Russian Revolutions, 1890-1918
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A) Otto von Bismarck
B) Winston Churchill
C) Mustafa Kemal
D) Philippe Pétain
Q2) Discuss the origins of the Bosnian Crisis and how it let to World War I.
Q3) What French commander successfully held Verdun against German attack?
A) Charles De Gaulle
B) Georges Clemenceau
C) Philippe Pétain
D) Édouard Daladier
Q4) Serbia's response to Austria was so conciliatory that it surprised even the Germans.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Who stopped the German advance at Belleau Wood?
Q6) Why was St. Petersburg renamed?
Q7) Discuss the stalemate that existed on the western front during World War I.
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Q8) Discuss the problems facing the government of Nicholas II.
Q9) Discuss the Russian Revolution that caused Russia to withdraw from World War I.
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Chapter 32: Anxieties and Ideologies of the Interwar Years, 1918-1939
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia by Charles Crane, who initially was looking for underground water.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Evaluate ethnic conflict in postwar Europe.
Q4) One problem whose solution eluded Mohandas Gandhi was the
A) Hindu-Muslim divide.
B) oppression of the British.
C) absence of Indian nationalism.
D) Indian-British conflict.
Q5) Who replaced Sun Yatsen as the leader of the Guomindang?
Q6) Hitler was imprisoned for a year following the failed
A) presidential election.
B) burning of the Reichstag.
C) Communist revolution.
D) Beer Hall Putsch.
Q7) Who was Atatürk?
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Chapter 33: World War Ii and the Holocaust, 1933-1945
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A) Morocco.
B) Greece.
C) Yugoslavia.
D) Ethiopia.
Q2) Which of these had Japan erroneously assumed when creating its Asian empire?
A) Britain and France would not support an attack on Japan.
B) The United States would never confront Japan in force.
C) British would attempt to balance Japanese and Russian imperialism.
D) China would not defend itself against a Japanese invasion.
Q3) Resistance to the Nazis in Europe can be said to have been
A) limited to small regions in France.
B) widespread but doing little to weaken Nazi control.
C) limited to Eastern Europe.
D) rare, but highly successful in those cases.
Q4) Where was the formal surrender for WWII signed?
Q5) Germany's use of Blitzkrieg was successful in Poland and France.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 34: East Versus West: Cold War and Its Global
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A) Harry Truman was more hostile to the Soviet Union than Franklin Roosevelt had been.
B) The Soviet premier was in ill health and likely to be replaced soon.
C) The new British prime minister was less forceful than Winston Churchill had been.
D) The U.S. had successfully tested the atom bomb.
Q2) Who followed Truman as president of the United States?
Q3) Who coined the term "containment" in his article signed by "Mr. X"?
Q4) Which American president was elected after promising a restoration of law and order and an end to the Vietnam War?
Q5) How did the opening of contact with China influence Soviet-U.S. relations?
A) It soured relations, bringing the two nations to the brink of war.
B) It led to the Bay of Pigs crisis.
C) It prompted the Soviet Union to be more conciliatory.
D) It accelerated the arms race.
Q6) Evaluate the effects of the Brezhnev Doctrine.
Q7) Discuss the underlying causes of the Cold War.
Q8) Who was the last ruler of the Soviet Union?
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Chapter 36: Reform and Revolution in Latin America,
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Q2) Evaluate the role of Juan Perón in Argentine politics.
Q3) The bloodiest military takeover in South American history occurred in 1973 in
A) Argentina.
B) Chile.
C) Colombia.
D) Brazil.
Q4) In 1900, which country had an extensive network of railroads?
A) Colombia
B) Argentina
C) Brazil
D) Bolivia
Q5) The "Moral Supremacy of the No" campaign ended which Latin American leader's dictatorship?
Q6) Brazil returned to civilian, democratic government in 1960.
A)True
B)False
Q8) Discuss the "Dirty War" including its causes and results. Page 47
Q7) Who was the prime minister of Great Britain during its war over the Falkland Islands?
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Chapter 35: The Upheavals of Asia, 1945-Present
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A) China.
B) Korea.
C) Vietnam.
D) Japan.
Q2) Khmer is the ethnicity to which most Cambodians belong.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mao Zedong's vision for China continues to be the standard for Chinese policy making today.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Tet Offensive caused Americans to question their course in Vietnam.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Mao Zedong opened a dialogue with the United States in hopes of lessening tensions between the two nations.
A)True
B)False
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A) refusal to recognize Palestine.
B) refusal to negotiate with Egypt.
C) cooperation with Yasir Arafat.
D) cooperation with Anwar Sadat.
Q2) Which of these became president of Iraq in 2005?
A) Muammar Qaddafi
B) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
C) Anwar Sadat
D) Hosni Mubarak
Q3) Where was UN secretary general Kofi Annan from?
Q4) Discuss the problems facing the peace process in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Q5) Whose rule of 30 years was ended following protests in Cairo in 2011?
A) Muammar Qaddafi
B) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
C) Anwar Sadat
D) Hosni Mubarak
Q6) Discuss the declining British Empire following WWII.
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Q7) What was the name of the rural uprising in Kenya against white domination?
Q8) Which French leader decided abruptly to give Algeria its independence?
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