Survey of World History
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Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of major developments in world history, tracing the evolution of human societies from ancient civilizations to the present day. Students will explore key cultural, political, economic, and social transformations that have shaped the global landscape, including the rise and fall of empires, the spread of religions, technological advancements, and the impact of globalization. Emphasizing comparative analysis and critical thinking, the course encourages students to examine connections between different regions and eras while gaining insight into the complex forces that have influenced the modern world.
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The Worlds History Combined Volume 5th Edition by Howard Spodek
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Chapter 1: The Dry Bones Speak
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Q1) The discovery of "Lucy" was significant because the skeleton showed that
A) hominids developed into Homo sapiens in Africa
B) the out-of-Africa theory was incorrect
C) hominids emerged much earlier than previous thought
D) hominids have much in common with modern humans
Answer: C
Q2) Hunter-gatherer bands probably numbered around ________ individuals.
A) 25
B) 10
C) 75
D) 55
Answer: A
Q3) The first cave paintings date to around ________ years ago.
A) 85,000
B) 5000
C) 15,000
D) 40,000
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: From Village Community to City-State
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Q1) Sargon was the ruler of ________ around 2350 B.C.E.
A) Akkad
B) Thebes
C) Persepolis
D) Mycenae
Answer: A
Q2) Mesopotamian ziggurats were above all symbols of ________ power.
A) religious
B) political
C) family
D) financial
Answer: A
Q3) Looking at the map "Mesopotamian trade,c.2000 B.C.E.," which of these regions had the highest concentration of urban areas?
A) Anatolia
B) Mesopotamia
C) Greece
D) Egypt
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: River Valley Civilizations
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Q1) Which of these is an administrative district in ancient Egypt?
A) pharaoh
B) nome
C) mastaba
D) pyramid
Answer: B
Q2) Which of these was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs?
A) the use of demotic
B) tomb reliefs
C) the study of the development of cuneiform
D) knowledge of ancient Greek
Answer: D
Q3) The Narmer palette illustrates the role of Egyptian pharaohs as ________.
A) priests
B) military leaders
C) administrators
D) heads of state
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: A Polycentric World
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Q1) The Inca capital was at ________.
A) Moche
B) Chan Chan
C) Tiwanaku
D) Cuzco
Q2) Which of these is a large,apparently urban,settlement that flourished from about 400 to 900 C.E.?
A) Kanem-Borno
B) Jenne-jeno
C) Kumbi Saleh
D) Meroë
Q3) Was Jenne-jeno a city? Support your answer by comparison with other early urban centers.
Q4) Which of these played the same role in early American civilizations as barley did in Mesopotamian culture?
A) squash
B) potatoes
C) maize
D) millet
Q5) How did the dynasties of China differ from the dynasties of China?
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Chapter 5: Dawn of the Empires
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Q1) Like the other intermediate periods,Egypt's Third Intermediate Period was a time of ________.
A) invasion
B) territorial expansion
C) political fragmentation
D) religious turmoil
Q2) The advantage of a hegemonic empire over an empire achieved by dominance is that in a hegemonic empire ________.
A) it is easier to keep the peace
B) fear silences dissent
C) communication is easier because of its vastness
D) the military has a clear role
Q3) The dominant leader of Athens in the fifth century was ________.
A) Herodotus
B) Cleisthenes
C) Solon
D) Pericles
Q4) Compare and contrast Persian and Greek political traditions.
Q5) How do empires differ from kingdoms or city-states? Why are historians concerned about this difference?
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Chapter 6: Rome and the Barbarians
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Q1) Octavian is more generally known by the title ________.
A) Caesar
B) princeps
C) Augustus
D) rex
Q2) Which of these became the center of a popular mystery religion in the Roman Empire?
A) Zeus
B) Seth
C) Isis
D) Venus
Q3) Which of these were elected as Roman administrators?
A) plebeians
B) patricians
C) magistrates
D) clients
Q4) Compare the fates of the eastern and western Roman empires.Why did they differ so much?
Q5) Did Rome want an empire? Answer this question by considering the forces that drove Rome's acquisition of a massive empire.
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Chapter 7: China
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Q1) Which of these emperors enshrined Confucianism as a basis for imperial administration?
A) Wang Mang
B) Wudi
C) Wen
D) Gaozu
Q2) The map "Chinese expansion" shows that ________ fed population expansion in southern China.
A) immigration from Vietnam
B) Xiongnu invasions
C) the population growth along the Yellow River
D) a population boom in the Yangzi valley
Q3) Confucianism emerged and spread in an atmosphere of political ________.
A) turmoil
B) revolution
C) stability
D) innovation
Q4) Consider China's relationship with its neighbors.Compare interactions among China and the Xiongnu and the Japanese.
Q5) What do you consider the most important achievement of the Qin dynasty? Why?
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Chapter 8: Indian Empires
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Q1) Much of India was briefly unified under ________ in the seventh century.
A) Kanishka
B) Asoka
C) Harsa
D) Chandra Gupta
Q2) Which of these dynasties ruled the region of Magadha in the second century B.C.E.?
A) Mauryan
B) Gupta
C) Huna
D) Sunga
Q3) Sangam poetry illustrates which of these themes in Indian history?
A) the clash between Buddhism and Hinduism
B) regional cultural traditions
C) the cultural dominance of northern India
D) the legacy of the Aryan migrations
Q4) Compare the impact of the Huna (Xiongnu)invasions in the different regions they impacted.
Q5) Discuss how we know about the Aryan immigrants into India and the strengths and weaknesses of these sources.
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Chapter 9: Hinduism and Buddhism
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Q1) Which of these is the merging of two practices into a single,new one?
A) mysticism
B) syncretism
C) assimilation
D) sinicization
Q2) In Hinduism,which of these is personal devotion to god?
A) Brahman
B) bhakti
C) mudra
D) Sangha
Q3) A mudra is a ________.
A) Buddhist temple
B) Hindu priest
C) Buddhist monk
D) symbolic hand gesture
Q4) Buddhism first spread to China during the ________ dynasty.
A) Tang
B) Qin
C) Han
D) Sui
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Chapter 10: Judaism and Christianity
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Q1) Which of these was a follower of Jesus,who worked to organize the Christian Church?
A) Augustine
B) Benedict of Nursia
C) Paul of Tarsus
D) Matthew
Q2) Early Christianity is best considered a(n)________.
A) alternative to Judaism
B) product of divisions with Judaism
C) branch of the Pharisees
D) political movement
Q3) How did its emergence in the Roman context help to mold Christianity?
Q4) Looking at the map "The spread of Christianity," which of these formed the early core of the Catholic Church?
A) Spain and Italy
B) Germany and Poland
C) Bulgaria and Hungary
D) France and Italy
Q5) What were the most important lines of development in Judaism?
Q6) Is Christianity a Jewish sect? Why or why not?
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Chapter 11: Islam
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Q1) From the thirteenth century,a sultanate was established in India,based in
A) Delhi
B) Goa
C) Calicut
D) Peshawar
Q2) Quran means ________ in Arabic.
A) "word of God"
B) "scripture"
C) "divine"
D) "recitations"
Q3) Which of these established an independent Egyptian state?
A) Umayyads
B) Abassids
C) Mongols
D) Fatimids
Q4) Compare the spread of Islam to the spread of Buddhism and of Christianity.What are the most important similarities and differences?
Q5) What steps made up the shift of Islam from and Arab to a universal religion?
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Q6) How did expansion into the Middle East reshape Islam and Muslim culture?
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Chapter 12: Establishing World Trade Routes
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Q1) Compared to the conquests of Chinggis Khan,his successors' conquests were
A) massive
B) roughly the same
C) small
D) nonexistent
Q2) The ________ lies along the southern edge of the Sahara.
A) savannah
B) rainforest
C) Congo River
D) sahel
Q3) Which of these is the biggest challenge for historians of the Mongol Empire?
A) We have no written sources.
B) Most of our written sources reflect the Mongol perspective.
C) Disagreement among sources makes writing Mongol history difficult.
D) Most of our sources are not from the Mongols.
Q4) What were the most important trading patterns in Africa? How did these shape African states?
Q5) Compare the Mongol Empire with the empire of Alexander the Great.Were they more similar or more different?
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Chapter 13: The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific
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Q1) Like movable type,cannons illustrate ________.
A) the importation of new ideas from the Mongol world
B) the influence of trade on technical change
C) innovations in military technology
D) European developments of Chinese innovations
Q2) Which of these led the first voyage to sail around the world?
A) Ferdinand Magellan
B) Gerardus Mercator
C) Amerigo Vespucci
D) Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Q3) Both Vitruvian Man and Trinity with the Virgin,St.John,and Donors illustrate what aspect of Renaissance art?
A) classical settings for paintings
B) the dominance of secular themes
C) a focus on the human form
D) the use of allegory
Q4) Use The Triumph of Death to consider the different impacts of the Black Death on Europe.
Q5) What were the long-term consequences of the Mongol Empire and its fall in European affairs of the Renaissance and after?
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Chapter 14: The Unification of World Trade
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Q1) The Protestant Reformation was launched by ________.
A) Henry VIII
B) Martin Luther
C) John Calvin
D) Johannes Gutenberg
Q2) The millet system in the Ottoman Empire followed the same tradition as Muslim treatment of ________.
A) slaves
B) dhimmi
C) foreigners
D) merchants
Q3) Peter I (Peter the Great)began his reign in the ________ century.
A) nineteenth
B) fifteenth
C) seventeenth
D) thirteenth
Q4) Compare the Ottoman and Mughal empires.What were their most important similarities and differences?
Q5) What were the most important short-term and long-term impacts of the Protestant Reformation?
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Chapter 15: Migration
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Q1) Indentured servants were usually ________.
A) young women
B) young men
C) families
D) convicts
Q2) Delhi was splendidly rebuilt by ________.
A) Akbar
B) Babur
C) Shah Jahan
D) Osman I
Q3) About ________ of the European population was killed by the Black Death.
A) one-half
B) one-tenth
C) one-third
D) three-quarters
Q4) Isfahan illustrates which of these patterns?
A) A city that owed its prominence primarily to trade.
B) A city that grew greatly in importance as an imperial capital.
C) A fortress that developed into a city.
D) A historic capital that gave importance to a dynasty that inherited it.
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Chapter 16: Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas
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Q1) A key goal of the rebels in the American Revolution was to________.
A) retain their political autonomy
B) institute a democracy
C) gain control of Britain
D) establish universal suffrage
Q2) Unlike the French Revolution,the Glorious Revolution ________.
A) was more bloody
B) was peaceful
C) brought regime change
D) brought important political change
Q3) For Voltaire,religion was the enemy of ________.
A) freedom
B) the common man
C) France
D) reason
Q4) The philosophes are associated with what movement?
A) the scientific revolution
B) the Enlightenment
C) the Glorious Revolution
D) the French Revolution
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) The Industrial Revolution led to ________,particularly in Britain.
A) the development of despotism
B) expanded government activities
C) a shrinking voting population
D) the growth of aristocratic power
Q2) Identify two or three factors that you think answer the question "Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?" Support your choices.
Q3) Which of these men developed an alternating current generator in 1892?
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Richard Arkwright
C) Thomas Edison
D) Samuel Crompton
Q4) In 1850,the population of Europe was ________ million.
A) 265
B) 140
C) 490
D) 82
Q5) Did urbanization in the 1800s continue earlier trends or represent new processes?
Q6) What were the most important impacts of the Industrial Revolution on politics?
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Chapter 18: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Resistance
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Q1) In Egypt,monoculture led to _______ .
A) the end of Ottoman rule
B) neocolonialism
C) independence
D) industrialization
Q2) The Boxer uprising can be described as a(n)________ conflict.
A) communist
B) internal ethnic
C) workers'
D) nationalist anti-Western
Q3) In India,regional leaders ________ in the 1700s and 1800s.
A) traded Mughal for British control
B) combined to end the Mughal Empire
C) formed a successful nationalist, anticolonial movement
D) carved out their own independent kingdoms
Q4) The term "the Scramble for Africa" can be judged as ________.
A) anachronistic
B) accurate
C) an exaggeration
D) a euphemism
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Chapter 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction
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Q1) Which of these explains the massive impact of the New York Stock Exchange crash?
A) the destruction of World War I
B) the end of European empires
C) the world system
D) a third phase of industrialization
Q2) Sun Yat-sen was elected leader of ________ in 1913.
A) Hong Kong
B) Taiwan
C) China
D) the Yuan dynasty
Q3) Which of these is reflected by the areas marked "areas controlled by Central Powers" in the map "World War I."
A) The western front was mobile.
B) Russia had pushed back the Central Powers by 1916.
C) The eastern front moved hundreds of miles.
D) The Central Powers were not able to advance to the east.
Q4) What was the relationship between industrialization in the early 1900s with the first and second stages of the Industrial Revolution?
Q5) How did World War I differ from earlier conflicts?
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Chapter 20: World War II
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Q1) The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is located in ________.
A) Auschwitz
B) New York City
C) Vienna
D) Berlin
Q2) Both Germany and Italy sought ________ in the period leading up to World War II.
A) to expand
B) revenge for defeat in World War I
C) to unify
D) peace
Q3) Robert Oppenheimer is best known for his work ________.
A) in developing radar
B) creating the United Nations
C) on submarines
D) on the atomic bomb
Q4) What commonalities led to the emergence of fascism in different countries?
Q5) How did the causes,scope,and results of World War I and World War II differ?
Q6) Compare responses to World War II.How have they attempted to deal with the legacy of the war?
Q7) How did the League of Nations and the United Nations differ?
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Chapter 21: Cold War, New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority
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Q1) Which of these were the focus of most of the activity associated with 1968?
A) students
B) military officers
C) communists
D) nationalists
Q2) The Comintern was created to ________.
A) spread communism
B) counter NATO
C) defend the Soviet bloc
D) fix the Soviet economy
Q3) Most African nations gained their independence ________.
A) through long wars
B) through UN intervention
C) peacefully
D) via proxy wars
Q4) Which of these is a sunrise industries?
A) textiles
B) steel
C) mining
D) computers
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Chapter 22: China and India
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Q1) The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a ________ Mao's earlier policies.
A) radical shift from
B) softening of
C) move to abandon
D) harsh return to
Q2) Sun Yat-sen was leader of the ________.
A) Chinese Communist Party
B) Taiping Rebellion
C) Guomindang
D) Yuan dynasty
Q3) Indira Gandhi illustrates the long Indian tradition of ________.
A) female rule
B) lineage
C) military rule
D) joint political and religious authority
Q4) Which of these was India's great poet?
A) Subhas Chandra Bose
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
D) Indira Gandhi
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Chapter 23: Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, Politics,
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Q1) Which of these was banned in China in 1999?
A) Buddhism
B) communism
C) Falun Gong
D) Daoism
Q2) How has our understanding of evolution changed in the last 100 years?
Q3) The current Chinese premier is________.
A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Xi Jinping
C) Chou Enlai
D) Jiang Zemin
Q4) Which of these men came to power in Iran in 1979?
A) Muhammad Mussadeq
B) Ayatollah Khomeini
C) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
D) Ayatollah Sayyid Khameini
Q5) What are the most important aspects of China's changing role in the world?
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Q6) How has the end of the Cold War changed international politics?
Q7) Compare religious developments in different world religions.What are their commonalities/differences?
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Chapter 24: Trade,Revolution,Technology,Identity
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Q1) The African National Congress played the same role in ending apartheid as the Indian National Congress had in achieving ________.
A) Indian independence
B) the end of caste discrimination
C) partition
D) reconciliation between Hindus and Muslims
Q2) The conflict between Israel and Palestine is primarily over ________.
A) freedom of religion
B) territory
C) economic control
D) balance of power
Q3) Separatist movements seek independence to create ________.
A) democracies
B) theocracies
C) nation-states
D) empires
Q4) What are the key issues in attempts to address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions?
Q5) How does globalization differ from earlier global trade networks?
Q6) Is decolonization still taking place in Asia and Africa?
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