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Pre-Modern World History explores the development of civilizations and societies from ancient times up to the early modern period, encompassing key regions such as Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The course examines political, economic, social, and cultural transformations, the rise and fall of empires, the spread of religions, technological innovations, and the interactions between different peoples through trade, migration, and conflict. By analyzing primary sources and scholarly interpretations, students gain a comprehensive understanding of how the foundations of the modern world were established.
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Chapter 1: The Foundations of Complex Societies
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Q1) The creator of the first empire in Mesopotamia was A)Hammurabi.
B)Moses.
C)Sargon of Akkad.
D)Gilgamesh.
E)Nebuchadnezzar.
Answer: C
Q2) A Mesopotamian stepped pyramid is known as a A)coptic.
B)eridu.
C)lugal.
D)lex talionis.
E)ziggurat.
Answer: E
Q3) Gilgamesh is the hero of the oldest known epic.
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 Egyptian god of the underworld was A)Amon-Re.
B)Aten.
C)Horus.
D)Osiris.
E)Ptah.
Answer: D
Q2) By spreading their language across a huge stretch of Africa,the Bantu played a role similar to that played by the A)Indo-Europeans.
B)Mongols.
C)Xiongnu.
D)Visigoths.
E)Babylonians.
Answer: A
Q3) Menes is credited with unification of Egypt about 3100B.C.E.He also founded the city of Memphis.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Early Societies in South and East Asia
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Q1) Writing during the Shang period was made up of more than
A)twenty-two letters.
B)fifty letters.
C)five hundred characters.
D)two thousand characters.
E)six thousand characters,including an alphabetic component.
Answer: D
Q2) In ancient China,which group presided at the rites and ceremonies honoring ancestors' spirits?
A)members of the official priesthood
B)women representing the nurturing earth goddess
C)the Buddhist hierarchy
D)the patriarchal heads of the families
E)Shinto priests
Answer: D
Q3) Varuna was the chief god of the Aryans,associated with rain and war.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Describe Olmec societal structures.What cultural and societal traditions did the Olmecs pass on to later Mesoamerican societies?
Q2) Discuss the richness and complexity of Maya culture,centering on their accomplishments in writing,astronomy,and math.
Q3) How did the state of Chichén Itzá change Mesoamerican society? How did its strategy for expansion differ from other states and kingdoms?
Q4) The Popol Vuh was the
A)most important of the Maya gods.
B)largest Olmec ceremonial center.
C)Maya creation myth.
D)greatest Austronesian epic.
E)Olmec law code.
Q5) The term Olmec means A)"lords."
B)"masters of the middle earth."
C)"rubber people."
D)"wanderers."
E)"noble people."
Q6) How did a changing climate affect the earliest inhabitants of Mesoamerica?
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Chapter 5: The Empires of Persia
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Q1) Ctesiphon was
A)the greatest Parthian ruler.
B)the capital of the Seleucid empire.
C)the prophet who transformed Persian religion.
D)the capital of the Parthian and Sasanid empires.
E)a Greek philosopher.
Q2) The greatest of the Achaemenid emperors was
A)Darius.
B)Cyrus.
C)Xerxes.
D)Cambyses.
E)Miltiades.
Q3) 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?
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 6: The Unification of China
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Q1) Junzi
A)were Chinese priests who argued that Confucius's philosophy was too secular.
B)was the honorific of the Qin emperor who united China for the first time.
C)was the classic compilation of Daoist thought.
D)were Confucian "superior individuals" who took an active role in public affairs.
E)were the Confucian model of enlightened thinkers who withdrew from society.
Q2) Mencius was the post-Confucian scholar who believed that human nature was basically good.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Chinese philosopher who proposed that strong social discipline was the best means of bringing society into order was
A)Confucius.
B)Mencius.
C)Laozi.
D)Xunzi.
E)Shihuangdi.
Q4) How did the early Han contribute to the unification of China?
Q5) What was the role of the family in classical China?
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Chapter 7: State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
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Q1) One of the biggest financial problems of the later Mauryan period was the
A)decision to trade exclusively with China.
B)issue of high administrative costs and soldier and bureaucrat salaries.
C)failure to invest in sea trade.
D)decision to borrow money from Persia at high interest rates.
E)decision to stop trading with the Persians.
Q2) What were the major accomplishments of the emperor Ashoka?
Q3) The man that unified northern India and laid the foundation for the first empire to control most of the subcontinent was Chandragupta Maurya.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Chandra Gupta II was the founder of the Gupta dynasty.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Ramayana is an Indian epic in which the subordinate position of women is demonstrated.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why did Buddhism eventually lose popularity in India?
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Chapter 8: Mediterranean Society Under the Greeks and the Romans
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Q1) Hellenistic philosophers who identified pleasure as the highest good were Stoics. A)True
B)False
Q2) In which polis did women have the most freedom?
A)Sparta
B)Corinth
C)Athens
D)Thebes
E)Syracuse
Q3) The reign of Augustus inaugurated a period known as the A)Punic Wars.
B)pax romana.
C)mare nostrum.
D)carpe deum.
E)Augustan reform.
Q4) Look at the picture of the Roman forum on page 149.What do the ruins tell us about public life in Roman times?
Q5) What is Socrates' view of death? .How does this view relate to his pursuit of truth? How did it relate to his own death?
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Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads
During the Late Classical ERA
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Q1) 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.
Q2) In the ancient world,the main producer of silk was A)Japan.
B)Ceylon.
C)China.
D)India.
E)Vietnam.
Q3) Examine the spread of Christianity.How was it helped along by the established trade routes? How did it evolve in the later Roman period?
Q4) Attila,the leader of the Huns,caused chaos in the Roman empire with his invasion of eastern Europe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Christian Commonwealth of Byzantium
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Q1) Which of the following accurately describes education in Byzantium?
A)Byzantium fell far short of the standards set in the western half of the empire.
B)Basic literacy was widespread in Byzantine society.
C)Byzantium struggled because of the lack of a written language.
D)Only the members of the central court could read and write.
E)Byzantium made tremendous strides after its conquest of the Arabic world.
Q2) The bezant
A)was the hereditary line of priests that dominated the Byzantine religious and social worlds.
B)headed the Byzantine banking industry.
C)was the Byzantine gold coin that became the standard currency in the Mediterranean basin.
D)was one of the two main factions inside Constantinople.
E)was the Byzantine class of nobles who blocked imperial centralization.
Q3) St.Basil of Caesarea played an important role in the rise of monasticism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the religious beliefs and structure of the Byzantine world.Examine the rise and influence of the Orthodox church.
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Chapter 11: The Expansive Realm of Islam
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Q1) How was the Islamic world influenced by its contact with the older Greek,Persian,and Indian societies? How did Islam influence these societies?
Q2) The phrase dar al-Islam means
A)"victory of god."
B)"conquest of Islam."
C)"warrior of Islam."
D)"missionary of the divine faith."
E)"house of Islam."
Q3) Examine Map 11.1,The expansion of Islam,632-733C.E.What other cultures did the Muslims encounter during their conquests? How did the rapid conquests create problems for the new Muslim empire?
Q4) Trace the expansion of Islam,illustrated in Map 11.1,The expansion of Islam,632-733C.E.Compare the size and wealth of the burgeoning Islamic empires to that of the Byzantines,Lombards,and Franks.How close did these Islamic empires come to conquering the former Roman empire?
Q5) Read the passage from the Quran .How is the Islamic view of Allah similar to the Jewish or Christian view of God? Compare it to other religions studied in the course.
Q6) What are the fundamental tenets of Islam?
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Chapter 12: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
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Q1) Japanese Zen Buddhism is known in China as A)Chan Buddhism.
B)Pure Land Buddhism.
C)Kusha Buddhism.
D)Mani Buddhism.
E)a combination of Christian and Buddhist philosophies.
Q2) The Song dynasty was substantially weakened by Song Taizu's decision to A)invade India.
B)allow scholar-bureaucrats to lead the army.
C)dismantle the Chinese bureaucracy.
D)give his generals almost unlimited authority.
E)turn control of the state over to his brilliant Korean bureaucrats.
Q3) In 1024,
A)the Song emperors outlawed the printing of paper money,by anyone.
B)the Song emperors transferred the printing of paper money from government to private control.
C)the Chinese economy collapsed because of inflation caused by the printing of paper money.
D)the Tang emperors established the first modern banking industry.
E)the first paper money,printed under government auspices,appeared.
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Chapter 13: India and the Indian Ocean Basin
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Q1) India was a natural location for the establishment of emporia because of A)its central location in the Indian Ocean basin.
B)the continuous problem of Chinese pirates.
C)its cold,dry climate.
D)the absence of monsoon winds.
E)its strong,centralized government.
Q2) Northern India was dominated from the thirteenth through the early sixteenth century by the
A)Abbasid dynasty.
B)Chola kingdom.
C)Southern Song dynasty.
D)Delhi sultanate.
E)Umayyad dynasty.
Q3) The design of the Khmer temples at Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat show
A)the influence of both Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
B)the growing influence of Islam.
C)a definite influence from the Tang dynasty.
D)that the Khmer were the only kingdom in southeast Asia that avoided Indian influence.
E)a Confucian influence.
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Chapter 14: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
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Q1) Compare and contrast the political and social structures,motivations,and influences of the Turkish and Mongol tribes.
Q2) How did the geography of central Asia affect the development of the nomadic cultures? How did these people adapt to their environment? What advantages did their adaptations give them?
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) Led by the Saljuqs,Turkish peoples began migrating into Anatolia in large numbers in the early eleventh century.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Marco Polo wrote that the Mongols were "stout and valiant soldiers,and inured to war." Why were the Mongols such great warriors? Why couldn't they turn their conquests into long-lasting empires?
Q6) What influence did the Mongols have on Eurasian trade and cultural integration?
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Chapter 15: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) Discuss the significance of Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca.How symbolic was this event? Discuss the importance of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa.
Q2) Compare and contrast the kingdom of Kongo with the kingdom of Ghana.
Q3) Compare and contrast the role of women in sub-Saharan Africa to their role in some of the other societies studied in the course.Did the growing influence of Islam affect the status of women?
Q4) Examine Sundiata's establishment of the kingdom of Mali.How has his legend transcended the centuries?
Q5) The conversion to Islam by east African merchants and princes did all of the following EXCEPT
A)eliminate native religions.
B)allow for the formation of alliances with other Islamic princes.
C)give a greater sense of legitimacy for east African princes.
D)help Islam become one of the principal cultural and religious traditions of the region.
E)allow for greater cooperation with other Islamic merchants.
Q6) How did geographic and agricultural factors influence early sub-Saharan societies?
Q7) 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 early postclassical era in Europe witnessed
A)a resurgence of urbanization.
B)a decline in urbanization.
C)a marked decline in trade.
D)a strengthening of noble feudal control in the countryside.
E)the return of unified imperial rule in Europe.
Q2) The Dominicans and Franciscans
A)were openly criticized during the high middle ages because of their vast wealth.
B)espoused dangerous heresies during the high middle ages.
C)attacked materialism and allowed no personal possessions.
D)played a key role in financing the crusades.
E)pushed for reconciliation among Christians,Jews,and Muslims.
Q3) 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
Q4) Where were the centers of the trade networks for Europe? Why those locations?
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Chapter 17: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) The Mexica looked only upon certain portions of the male population as potential warriors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) By the middle of the fifteenth century,the Mexica had formed a triple alliance with
A)the Maya and Incas.
B)the Toltecs and Maya.
C)the Incas and Iroquois.
D)Tenochtitlan and Cuzco.
E)Texcoco and Tlacopan.
Q3) Tezcatlipoca was also known as
A)"the Feathered Serpent."
B)"the Fire From Above."
C)"the Devourer of Children."
D)"the Hungry God."
E)"the Smoking Mirror."
Q4) 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) Cotton was introduced to west Africa by the A)Europeans.
B)Muslims.
C)Chinese.
D)Bantus.
E)Mongols.
Q2) Hongwu's philosophy for ruling China was to A)continue the highly successful Yuan policies.
B)completely break with the past.
C)return to the model of traditional Chinese dynasties.
D)modernize on a European basis.
E)copy the Persian model.
Q3) Relate the humanistic thought of the Renaissance to philosophies in other societies in the world at that time.How revolutionary was the humanistic view? How does the Renaissance emphasis on the uniqueness of the individual relate to other societies' worldview?
Q4) The Nestorian priest that served as Mongol envoy to the states of Europe was Rabban Sauma.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Transoceanic Encounters and Global
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Q1) Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for A)gold.
B)silver.
C)copper.
D)furs.
E)iron.
Q2) The Philippines fell to
A)James Cook.
B)Jan Pieterszoon Coen.
C)Miguel López de Legazpi.
D)Ferdinand Magellan.
E)Zheng He.
Q3) The goal of the Portuguese in establishing a trading-post empire was to conquer new territories.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What factors contributed to the dramatic economic growth and the ensuing population growth of Russia in the eighteenth century?
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Chapter 20: The Transformation of Europe
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Luther's initial stimulus for formulating the Ninety-Five Theses was
A)his excommunication from the Roman Catholic church.
B)the sale of indulgences.
C)his time spent in England during the English Reformation.
D)the turmoil caused by having two popes during the Great Schism.
E)the influence of John Calvin.
Q3) How did European monarchs increase their power in the early modern era? What are some of the common characteristics of the new monarchs?
Q4) What factors encouraged the evolution of a constitutional government in England and the Netherlands?
Q5) What factors led to the dramatic population growth of Europe between 1500 and 1700?
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Chapter 21: New Worlds: the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) To provide labor for their sugar plantations,the Portuguese by the 1580s
A)offered higher wages than did their Spanish counterparts.
B)copied the Spanish encomiendas.
C)made extensive use of indentured servants.
D)copied the Spanish repartimiento system.
E)relied on imported African slaves as laborers.
Q2) The first plentiful labor force for North America was
A)indentured servants.
B)peninsulares from South America.
C)African slaves.
D)métis purchased from Canada.
E)native Americans who worked as part of a complicated barter system.
Q3) Examine the social structure of colonial life in North America.How was it different from the social structure of life in Central and South America? What explains the differences? In what ways did the different societies intermingle?
Q4) How did Pizarro conquer the Inca empire with 180 men?
Q5) 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?
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Q1) The vast majority of slaves
A)died during the middle passage.
B)were employed in the mines of Central and South America.
C)became domestic servants.
D)were trained for simple,bureaucratic work.
E)provided agricultural labor on plantations.
Q2) Islam was most popular in sub-Saharan Africa in
A)the thinly populated rural areas of west Africa.
B)the commercial centers of west Africa and the Swahili city-states of east Africa.
C)areas that had previously had contact with Christian missionaries.
D)poor areas,where payment for conversion had the greatest appeal.
E)areas that had forsaken the traditional religions because of famine or plague.
Q3) Examine the nature and conditions of slavery in the western hemisphere.In what ways did it vary? What were the social and gender implications of slavery?
Q4) Besides religion,what other changes came to sub-Saharan Africa as a result of increased contact with the outside world?
Q5) Compare the experience of slaves in the Caribbean,in Brazil,and in North America.
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Chapter 23: Tradition and Change in East Asia
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Q1) The Manchus were careful to preserve their own ethnic and cultural identity by outlawing intermarriage between Manchus and Chinese,and by forbidding the Chinese from traveling to Manchuria and learning the Manchurian language.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Read the excerpt from Fabian Fucan's Deus Destroyed..What concerns did the Chinese,and Fabian Fucan in particular,have about European imperial expansion? About Christian doctrine?
Q3) What factors led to the economic and population growth of Japan under the Tokugawa shoguns?
Q4) During the 1630s the shoguns of Japan forbade Japanese from going abroad,expelled Europeans,and prohibited foreign merchants trading in Japan. A)True B)False
Q5) The Great Wall of China was a project of the Yuan dynasty during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
A)True B)False
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Q1) The Mughal emperor Akbar was a devout Muslim who was not tolerant of other religions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Shah Jahan was unable to finish the construction of the Taj Mahal because
A)he was overthrown by his son Aurangzeb.
B)he died of smallpox.
C)he was captured by the Ottomans while on a hunting trip.
D)his country was invaded by Afghan tribesmen.
E)his Mughal rule was interrupted by a Safavid invasion.
Q3) Süleyman the Magnificent in 1529 inflicted a brief and terrifying siege on the Habsburgs' prized city of A)Vienna.
B)Mohács.
C)Belgrade.
D)Chaldiran.
E)Otranto.
Q4) Identify and compare the status of religious minorities within the three Islamic empires.Which empire faced the greatest challenges in this regard?
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Chapter 25: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
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Q1) Discuss the Haitian uprising.In what ways is this event an expression of the ideals of the Enlightenment? In what ways did Haiti go further than the American or French revolutions? Look at the picture of the slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue on page 478.Why would the artist portray this image? Compare the Haitian revolution to the other revolutionary movements in Latin America.Who were the leading figures? What were their main goals?
Q2) The Congress of Vienna created a diplomatic order based on balance of power under the guidance of A)Napoleon.
B)Otto von Bismarck.
C)Edmund Burke.
D)Klemens von Metternich.
E)Theodore Herzl.
Q3) The leader who helped lead Brazil to independence was
A)Simón Bolívar.
B)Bernardo O'Higgins.
C)José de San Martín.
D)Miguel de Hidalgo.
E)Emperor Pedro I.
Q4) Compare the unification of Italy with the unification of Germany.
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Chapter 26: The Making of Industrial Society
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Q1) Marx wrote the famous words,"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" in the Manifesto of the Communist Party.In what ways were these simple words the foundation of his philosophy? Who would eventually win the class struggle?
Q2) As a result of the Witte system,Russia experience explosive growth.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Marx and Engels believed that part of the final result of the socialist revolution would be
A)a crisis of overproduction.
B)the withering away of the state.
C)the "complete inversion of the class hierarchy."
D)the "realization of freedom."
E)the "opiate of the masses."
Q4) How did the industrial revolution impact the social and family life of Europe? How did production by the family unit evolve in industrial society?
Q5) Examine Map 26.1,Industrial Europe ca.1850.What are the leading demographic factors? Look at the new industrial cities.What would life be like in those cities for the new urban workers?
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Chapter 27: The Americas in the Age of Independence
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Q1) What role did Emiliano Zapata play in Mexican history? What role did peasants and social stresses play in Latin American history?
Q2) Which of the following was NOT a key factor in the outbreak of the U.S.Civil War?
A)the election of Abraham Lincoln
B)the issue of slavery
C)the imperatives of a budding industrial-capitalist system against those of an export-oriented plantation economy
D)the traditional argument between a British or French alliance
E)states' rights as opposed to the federal government's authority
Q3) Quebec,Ontario,Nova Scotia,and New Brunswick were joined together as the Dominion of Canada
A)by the British North America Act of 1867.
B)after the successful Canadian revolution of 1891-1893.
C)after the French government granted them independence.
D)as a last-ditch effort to keep America from annexing Nova Scotia.
E)by the Canadian Independence Act of 1917.
Q4) Summarize the political and cultural conflict between city and pampas in Argentina.
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Chapter 28: The Building of Global Empires
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Q1) What,if anything,did anticolonial uprisings such as the Sepoy rebellion of 1857,the Maji Maji rebellion,and the Filipino rebellion have in common? Why were they not more successful?
Q2) Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as
A)smart but docile.
B)somewhat intelligent but remarkably energetic.
C)intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world.
D)dull and arrogant.
E)unintelligent and lazy.
Q3) Between 1800 and 1914,how many Europeans migrated overseas?
A)five million
B)ten million
C)seven million
D)fifteen million
E)fifty million
Q4) Which Asian and African states managed to maintain their sovereignty in the nineteenth century? Why these states?
Q5) How did the British establish control over India in the early nineteenth century? How did the Sepoy Rebellion contribute to this process?
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Chapter 29: The Great War: The World in Upheaval
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Q1) What factors caused the Russian revolutions in March and November of 1917? What changes emerged initially from these revolutions?
Q2) The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to which of the following states?
A)England
B)Austria-Hungary
C)Spain
D)France
E)Germany
Q3) 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.
Q4) Examine maps 29.2 and 29.3.What were the major territorial changes mandated by the Paris Peace Conference? Was the new map so unstable that another war was inevitable?
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Chapter 30: An Age of Anxiety
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Q1) During the Great Depression,most nations
A)cooperated globally to fight the problem,on a scale never seen before.
B)dramatically reduced tariffs in an effort to facilitate international trade.
C)expanded the money supply and undertook public works to provide jobs.
D)practiced economic nationalism.
E)pushed for an expansion of trade.
Q2) John Maynard Keynes's answer to the central problem of the depression was for governments to balance budgets and curtail public spending.
A)True
B)False
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.
Q4) What was the impact of the depression on social attitudes? On women and families?
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Chapter 31: Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa,
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Q1) What was the status of India within the British empire after World War I? What were some of the sources of tension in India at this time?
Q2) What factors caused Africans to challenge European authority during the Great War?
Q3) Look at the pictures of Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong on page 602.What were their main philosophies? What was their relationship to Sun Yatsen? How did they influence Chinese history?
Q4) Muhammad Ali Jinnah,leader of the Muslim league,proposed two states,one for Hindus and one for Muslims: India and Pakistan.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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
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Chapter 32: New Conflagrations: World War II
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Q1) During the battle of Okinawa,
A)the people of Okinawa took the opportunity to rebel against their Japanese oppressors.
B)the United States suffered a devastating defeat that almost cost them the entire war.
C)the United States introduced its own variety of the V-1 rocket.
D)the United States was able to seize 90 percent of Vietnam.
E)roughly 110,000 Okinawan civilians died,refusing to surrender.
Q2) The European part of World War II began with the A)Soviet invasion of Romania.
B)Polish invasion of Germany.
C)German invasion of Poland.
D)German takeover of Austria.
E)Munich Conference.
Q3) Note the specific steps taken by Italy and Germany in the 1930s that were in direct violation of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
Q4) How did the war affect civilian populations,families,and women on the home front?
Q5) What factors led to the defeat of the Axis powers in Europe?
Q6) Compare the occupation policies of Germany and Japan during the war.
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Chapter 33: The Cold War and Decolonization
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A)Romania's Nicolae Ceau escu.
B)East Germany's Erich Honecker.
C)Hungary's Imre Nagy.
D)Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov.
E)the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev.
Q2) The Bay of Pigs invasion
A)involved anti-Castro Cubans trained by the U.S. B)was a failure.
C)strengthened Castro's position in Cuba.
D)strengthened Castro's commitment to communism.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) Agitation for independence in sub-Saharan Africa took many forms,peaceful and violent,and decolonization occurred at a steady pace.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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) By 2001,female literacy in India stood at about
A)12 percent.
B)20 percent.
C)42 percent.
D)54 percent.
E)75 percent.
Q2) What role does internal and external migration play in today's world? How have migrant communities developed in various countries,and what has been their effect?
Q3) The United States' war against global terrorism began in the wake of which of the following events?
A)the Islamic revolution in Iran
B)the first Gulf War
C)the attacks on the U.S.World Trade Center and Pentagon
D)the 2003 invasion of Iraq to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
E)an attack on a U.S.warship in Yemen
Q4) The Internet reinforces the contemporary fact that English has become the universal tongue of the twenty-first century.
A)True
B)False
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