Survey of World History Exam Practice Tests
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Survey of World History provides an overview of the major events, cultures, and developments that have shaped human societies from ancient times to the present. The course explores key civilizations, political movements, economic transformations, and cultural exchanges across different regions, highlighting the interconnectedness of global events. Through critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, students gain insights into historical patterns, the causes and effects of change, and the relevance of history in understanding contemporary issues.
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Chapter 1: Nature, Humanity, and History
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Q1) Most early agricultural communities had a staple crop based on A) grain or rice.
B) sheep and goats.
C) pumpkins, squash, or gourds.
D) oranges and mushrooms.
E) berries and nuts.
Answer: A
Q2) Matrilineal societies were
A) ruled by women.
B) defined by maternal heritage.
C) ruled by men.
D) defined by paternal heritage.
E) defined by a nuclear family.
Answer: B
Q3) What is the most plausible explanation for the advent of the Agricultural Revolution?
Answer: Climate change drove people to abandon hunting and gathering in favor of agriculture or pastoralism.
Q4) Homo erectus
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 2: The First River-Valley Civilizations
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Q1) One of the chief attributes of a civilization is Answer: cities as administrative centers.
Q2) A massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks and associated with religious complexes in ancient Mesopotamian cities is known as a:
A) altar.
B) ziggurat
C) open air plaza
D) steps leading up to the pyramid
E) lugal's burial chamber
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following classes does not belong to Babylonia society?
A) The class of slaves
B) The class of dependent farmers and artisans
C) The class of tenant farmers
D) The free, landowning class
Answer: C
Q4) What was the purpose of the Egyptian pyramids?
Answer: Burial tombs, originally for the pharaohs, but after the Middle Kingdom era, for those who could afford it.
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Chapter 3: The Mediterranean and Middle East
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Q1) Israel is important partly because
A) it is the site of religious shrines to Medianites.
B) it is a crossroads to the Near East, Egypt, and Arabia.
C) it is the only access to the Mediterranean.
D) it is the site of perfect center under the North Star.
E) it had access to the murex snail, which produced purple dye.
Answer: B
Q2) The two divisions within the population of Mesopotamia were
A) Assyrians and Sumerians
B) Sumerians and Babylonians.
C) Assyrians and Babylonians.
D) Sargonians and Ninevans.
E) Phoenicians and Kassites
Answer: C
Q3) Iron Age
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Which group were the first to learn iron making?
Answer: Hittites
Q5) Israel
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: New Civilizations Outside the West Asian Core Area
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Q1) Which early Zhou writing is attributed to Sunzi?
A) The Book of Documents
B) The Art of War
C) The Book of Prayer
D) The Book of Changes
E) Spring and Autumn Annals
Q2) To Confucius, the fundamental element of society was the
A) king
B) city
C) maintenance of tradition
D) characteristic of respect
E) family
Q3) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 4.2 and compare the distribution of settled territory in proximity to the Nile in Egypt and in Nubia. What accounts for the differences in population distribution?
Q4) Using Map (in the textbook) 4.1, identify the natural barriers that isolated China. Also locate the major waterways, including the Yangzi and Yellow Rivers, and explain how those were used to facilitate trade, despite the natural barriers.
Q5) Sima Qian
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Chapter 5: Greece and Iran
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Q1) The term the Greeks used to describe someone who seized and held power in violation of political norms of the community was called a _____.
A) oligarch
B) tyrant
C) elite
D) Hellenist
E) none of the above
Q2) Which of the following is true of the Greek poleis or city-states?
A) Some were oligarchic and some were democratic.
B) They featured an acropolis and an agora.
C) They had fortified walls.
D) Many people living inside the fortified walls worked on nearby farms outside the walls.
E) All of the above.
Q3) sacrifice
Q4) Peloponnesian War
Q5) Describe the relationship between the hoplite and agriculture.
Q6) Persepolis
Q7) Delian League
Q8) Cyrus
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Chapter 6: An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China
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Q1) According to the Confucius philosopher Mencius, proper female behavior was exemplified by the:
A) three wise gods.
B) three submissions.
C) three flowers.
D) three trials.
E) three virtues.
Q2) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 6.2 and show the major cities and trade routes during the Han dynasty. What is the importance of the networks of rivers and canals? What is the Silk Road? Is there a connection between the location of the Silk Road and the location of the Great Wall?
Q3) Sima Qian
Q4) What was buried with the Emperor Shi Huang-di in his elaborate tomb?
A) his sword.
B) his wife.
C) ten thousand pounds of gold.
D) an entourage of priests and servants.
E) seven thousand life-sized statues of his soldier.
Q5) Jesus
Q6) Principate
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Chapter 7: India and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Discuss the effects of polytheism and the lack of unification in India prior to Ashoka.
Q2) What was the greatest advantage of the Gupta Empire army?
A) trebuchets.
B) a well armed cavalry
C) an elaborate spy network
D) gunpowder from the Xiongnu
E) the imperial road system
Q3) The seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean waters are called:
A) tsunamis.
B) waterspouts.
C) monsoons.
D) typhoons.
E) hurricanes.
Q4) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 7.2 and trace the connection of powerful Southeast Asian civilizations with successful trade routes.
Q5) Why is India referred to as a subcontinent?
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Chapter 8: Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas
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Q1) Moche
Q2) Which was not part of the Maya reckoning of time?
A) The ritual calendar of 260 days, with 13 months of 20 days
B) The solar calendar of 365 days in 18 months of 20 days, plus five bad days
C) The long count calendar which began in 3114 B.C.E.
D) A lunar calendar of 344 days per year in 13 months of 28 days, with an extra month added in once every four years
E) They didn't use any of these.
Q3) What type of writing did the Maya have?
A) Alphanumeric
B) Cuneiform
C) Petroglyphs
D) None
E) a form of hieroglyphic inscription
Q4) chinampas
Q5) The Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen was called:
A) wari
B) moche
C) ayllu
D) mita
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Chapter 9: Networks of Communication and Exchange
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Q1) The Indian Ocean Maritime System forged economic and social ties between Southeast Asia, China, India, Arabia and
A) Morocco.
B) Russia.
C) East Africa.
D) Egypt.
E) Greece.
Q2) What were some of the technological advances that the Silk Road was responsible for?
Q3) Using Map (in the textbook) 9.2, explain the significance of the Sahel in facilitating north-south trade.
Q4) The agricultural area bordering the Sahara Desert is called the Sahel, which in Arabic literally means A) dry pastureland.
B) the coast.
C) almost-desert.
D) prairie and plains.
E) a lush paradise.
Q5) steppes
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Chapter 10: The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam
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Q1) The Abbasids purchased Turkic slaves, called mamluks, into military service. The mamluks eventually founded their own state in
A) Turkey.
B) Spain.
C) Egypt.
D) Iran.
E) Arabia.
Q2) Why did the rulers of al-Andalus Spain finally take the title of caliph in 929?
A) The growing number of converts to Islam demanded it.
B) They had finally solidified control of the region.
C) They did so in response to the Fatimids assming this title in Tunisia.
D) Christians in northern Spain threatened invasion.
E) They never did.
Q3) Medina
Q4) What did the Sasanid and Byzantine Empires have in common?
A) dependence on camels
B) a shared distaste for Christianity.
C) central control of imperial finances.
D) a military emphasis on cavalry
E) societal unrest because of religious heterogeneity.
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Chapter 11: Christian Societies Emerge in Europe
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Q1) Kievan Russia
Q2) How did the decline of the Byzantine Empire correlate with the growth in the power and prestige of the Holy Roman Empire in western Europe?
Q3) The sixth-century "plague of Justinian" was
A) an economic crisis caused by the emperor's economic policies.
B) the death and destruction caused by Justinian's marauding armies.
C) the moral decay and social class struggle in the empire.
D) an outbreak of bubonic plague during Justinian's rule.
E) a further divide between the Western and Eastern Churches.
Q4) During the revival of Western Europe (1000-1200), the population nearly doubled, in part, because of
A) papal edicts to encourage increased birthrates.
B) the Christian Crusades.
C) technological innovations such as a new type of plow and efficient draft harnesses for pulling wagons.
D) the abolition of the death penalty for debtors across Europe.
E) the introduction of rice (from Arab lands) to the diet.
Q5) Byzantine Empire
Q6) manor
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Chapter 12: Inner and East Asia
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Q1) The most serious rivals to the Tang Empire were the A) Mongols and the Berbers.
B) Vikings and the Huns.
C) Uigurs and Tibetans.
D) Arabs and Japanese.
E) Russians and Koreans.
Q2) Prior to contact with China, Koreans believed in the practice of certain individuals being able to contact ancestors and the invisible spirit world. This religion is called...
A) Hinduism.
B) Christianity.
C) Islam.
D) Shamanism.
E) Atheism.
Q3) The tributary system was a practice in which
A) the emperor traveled to foreign countries to pledge his allegiance to them.
B) independent countries acknowledged the supremacy of the Chinese emperor.
C) the emperor made an annual trip down the Grand Canal.
D) the emperor made a pilgrimage to please the gods and the ancient ancestors.
E) China built new canals for transportation and irrigation.
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Chapter 13: Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath
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Q1) Using Map (in the textbook) 13.2, discuss how the Principalities of Russia was a "buffer zone" between the Mongol Empire and western Europe.
Q2) Which group held the lowest social rank in Yuan China?
A) Southern Chinese
B) Northern Chinese
C) Middle Easterners
D) Central Asians
E) Mongols
Q3) Mongol families often included believers in two or more religions, however, virtually all Mongols observed the practices of:
A) Islam.
B) Shamanism.
C) Orthodox Christianity
D) Atheism.
E) Buddhism.
Q4) nomadism
Q5) Chinggus Khan
Q6) khan
Q7) Teutonic Knights
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Q1) Great Western Schism
Q2) humanists (Renaissance)
Q3) Credit for "the lost art of painting" being revived is traditionally given to:
A) Giotto
B) Van Eyck
C) Da Vinci
D) Botticelli
E) Rembrandt
Q4) The continued growth of trade and manufacturing after 1200 resulted in:
A) The growth of wealthy port cities and urban areas in the Latin West.
B) The continuing economic depression in agriculture.
C) The isolation of Europe from the rest of the world.
D) Religious revival and expansion.
E) Strict government regulation.
Q5) One of the most significant growth industries in the 14th century was:
A) merchant banking
B) stonemasonry
C) papermaking
D) wool weaving
E) metal smelting
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Chapter 15: Southern Empires, Southern Seas
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Q1) monsoon
Q2) What is a tropical environment? Explain the different ecosystems contained in the tropical areas of Africa and Asia and what climatic factors control them.
Q3) The people who lived in the tropical regions of Africa and Asia both affected and were affected by their natural environments. In what ways were those people shaped by their environments? In what ways did they participate in actively shaping their environments?
Q4) On Map (in the textbook) 15.1, show the direction of the monsoon winds during different times of the year. How do these patterns produce different economic and agricultural possibilities?
Q5) What caused the collapse of the empire of Great Zimbabwe?
A) monsoon flooding
B) conquest by Christian Ethiopians
C) deforestation and cattle overgrazing
D) prolonged drought that killed agriculture
E) The order of Sultan Muhammed ibn Tughluq that the city be abandoned
Q6) Compare and contrast the empires of Mali and Delhi in the period 1200-1500. Include a discussion of slavery in your response.
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Chapter 16: The Maritime Revolution
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Q1) The powerful West African kingdom of Benin limited its contacts with the Portuguese by
A) refusing to accept Catholicism.
B) declining offers to receive missionaries.
C) closing the market in male slaves.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Which of the following was a reason for Iberian overseas exploration?
A) Long-standing Muslim alliances
B) Spain was a center of Renaissance learning.
C) They already had the major share of Mediterranean trade.
D) Christian militancy.
E) None of these
Q3) Afonso I
Q4) Describe the Portuguese explorations in the Indian Ocean. How would you characterize the receptivity of the indigenous peoples and empires?
Q5) Using Map (in the textbook) 16.2, trace the outlines of the Spanish Empire in the Americas by 1600. In your answer, distinguish between the different groups of Amerindians with which the Spanish came in contact.
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Chapter 17: Transformations in Europe
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Q1) Trace the connection between the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. What was the significance of the end result of this period of history?
Q2) Many Europeans believed that when natural disasters like earthquakes occurred, the cause was
A) plate tectonics.
B) punishment from God.
C) an imbalance of humors in the body.
D) that they were illusions.
E) an unvirtuous ruler.
Q3) How role did the papacy and the Renaissance play in the advent of the Protestant Reformation?
Q4) In response to criticisms leveled against Catholic practices, the church met from 1545-1564 at the
A) Council of Nicaea
B) Council of Constance
C) Council of Trent
D) Council of Florence
E) Council of Liubetch.
Q5) indulgence
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Chapter 18: The Diversity of American Colonial Societies
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Q1) Which of the following were ways that the Amerindian population reacted to the colonial economy?
A) They provided furs and deerskins to European traders.
B) Amerindian hunting and gathering and agricultural practices were disrupted.
C) They became dependent on European goods.
D) The natural balance of plants and animals was disrupted.
E) All of the above.
Q2) Which of the following became the richest institution of the Spanish colonies?
A) The Catholic Church
B) The Viceroyalty of Brazil
C) The farmers
D) The unions
E) The Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata
Q3) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 18.2, and discuss how European claims in the North American colonies changed by the end of the eighteenth century. What countries were gaining and losing colonial territory? Why?
Q4) coureurs de bois
Q5) Compare and contrast the different colonial regions established in British North America. In what ways were they similar or different?
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Chapter 19: The Atlantic System and Africa
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Q1) capitalism
Q2) Life expectancy for nineteenth-century Brazilian male slaves was
A) 10 years.
B) 23 years.
C) 39 years.
D) 50 years.
E) 65 years.
Q3) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 19.1 and discuss the different commodities traded. How did the rise of an Atlantic trading network lay the foundation for European wealth? How did the trade in these goods give Europe access to Asian markets?
Q4) In the eighteenth century, West Indian plantations were controlled by a plantocracy,
A) a group of people concerned about the environment.
B) a small number of rich men who owned most of the land and slaves.
C) a group of botanists who encouraged the growth of new and exotic plants.
D) a religious sect of Protestantism.
E) none of these
Q5) Bight of Biafra
Q6) What were the effects of the Middle Passage on both slave traders and slaves?
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Chapter 20: Between Europe and China
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Q1) tsar
Q2) Shi'ites
Q3) Cossacks
Q4) The founder of the Mughal Empire was
A) Akbar.
B) Babur.
C) Ali.
D) Mehmed.
E) Nanak.
Q5) The sultan, also know as "The Lawgiver," who presided over a "golden age" and the greatest Ottoman assault on Christian Europe was
A) Sultan Mehmet II.
B) Mansa Musa.
C) Suleiman the Magnificent.
D) Babur.
E) Akbar.
Q6) Ottoman Empire
Q7) Siberia
Q8) Tulip Period
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Chapter 21: East Asia in Global Perspective
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Q1) When Li Zicheng overthrew Beijing, the Ming empire turned for help to this group, which eventually overthrew the Ming
A) The Japanese Ronin.
B) Mongolian Buddhists
C) Manchu soldiers from the Northeast
D) Rebel forces from the Southwest
E) Korean private armies eager to overthrow Japan.
Q2) Nagasaki
Q3) Merchants from which country were the first to arrive in East Asia?
A) Spain
B) Portugal
C) England
D) Holland
E) Italy
Q4) turtle ships
Q5) In Korea, women negotiated Confucian dogma toward women including
Q6) Why was Korea a logical first step for Hideyoshi's political conquests?
Q7) Prior to 1500, Japan provided 30% of the world's supply of...
Q8) Dalai Lama
Q9) Ming Empire Page 24
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Chapter 22: The Early Industrial Revolution
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Q1) steam engine
Q2) Explain the significance of the potato on changing the diets of the working population, as well as why the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century had such a dramatic effect across Europe.
Q3) One profound effect that industrialization had on the world was that
A) Western Europe and North America were empowered at the expense of the rest of the world.
B) the raw material of Africa made it the center of industrialization.
C) the availability of cheap labor in Asia caused its markets to expand rapidly.
D) Europe went into a slow decline due to worldwide competition.
E) workers' wages and quality of living rose quickly.
Q4) Among the new inventions developed to weave cotton textiles was (were)
A) the steam engine.
B) the spinning jenny and the water frame.
C) the power loom and the thread "genie."
D) the fulling press and the iron "foot."
E) the rotary weaving engine.
Q5) Great Exhibition of 1851
Q6) Why was transportation such a critical feature of the Industrial Revolution?
Q7) What were the environmental effects of the Industrial Revolution?
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Chapter 23: Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World
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Q1) Stamp Act of 1765
Q2) The revolutions of 1848 were widespread across Europe and were inspired by
A) the establishment of permanent democracy in the Holy Roman Empire.
B) the desire for democratic reforms and national self-determination.
C) the installation of Louis Philippe as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
D) the demand that women be granted the right to vote.
E) Gil Scott-Heron's famous poem.
Q3) Which French Estate, with allies from the other estates, declared itself to be the National Assembly?
A) First Estate
B) Second Estate
C) Third Estate
D) Fourth Estate
E) Fifth Estate
Q4) Enlightenment
Q5) George Washington
Q6) François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture
Q7) After defeating the French in North America in 1763, what two major problems did the British face with respect to the American colonies?
Q8) Estates General
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Chapter 24: Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism
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Q1) Young Ottomans
Q2) The root cause of the Crimean War was the Ottoman Empire's goal, supported by the British and the French, to thwart
A) Russia's desire to expand south through the Black Sea for naval access to the Mediterranean Sea.
B) Russia's desire to spread Orthodox Christianity throughout the Ottoman Empire.
C) Ottoman domination of Serbia.
D) Russia's desire to control Constantinople (Istanbul).
E) Russia's siding with Greece during the 1829 independence movement.
Q3) treaty ports
Q4) Which of the following were factors hindering reforms in Russia?
A) lack of urbanization
B) predominance of agriculture.
C) poor transportation opportunities.
D) diversity of languages proscribing unification.
E) all of the above
Q5) Muhammad Ali
Q6) Tanzimat
Q7) Opium War
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Chapter 25: Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas
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Q1) Women's Rights Convention
Q2) Which of the following were similarities shared by Venezuelan leader José Antonio Páez and American Andrew Jackson?
A) They were both successful military leaders.
B) They both had uneducated and poor beginnings.
C) They both challenged constitutional limits to their power.
D) They both were personalist leaders.
E) All of the above.
Q3) Most of the immigrants from Asia (especially China and India) after 1850 went to A) Peru.
B) Canada.
C) Cuba.
D) the United States.
E) Polynesia.
Q4) Emperor Pedro I of Brazil published an article in which he called slavery
A) our "peculiar institution."
B) a "gift from God."
C) the "soft underbelly of Latin America."
D) the economic basis of the Brazilian nation.
E) a "cancer eating away at Brazil."
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Chapter 26: Varieties of Imperialism in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America
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Q1) Sepoys were Indian troops who
A) fought against the nawabs.
B) were hired and trained to protect European companies' warehouses.
C) fought for Hindu India against the Muslims.
D) fought against the British in India.
E) fought to end French occupation of Bengal.
Q2) What impact did industrialization have on the process of colonization in Africa and Asia?
Q3) Egypt was able to build a modern state based on cotton exports until the market for Egyptian cotton collapsed after
A) the British switched their preference to Indian cotton.
B) King Jaja instituted peasant economies based on hand weaving that undercut Ali's labor forces.
C) the American cotton market resumed after the Civil War.
D) new work on irrigation canals caused a decrease in flooding of the Nile, and cotton crops failed for five years successively.
E) France occupied Egypt and prevented it from exporting cotton to Britain.
Q4) Menelik II
Q5) How did West Africans react to the end of the Atlantic slave trade?
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Chapter 27: The New Power Balance
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Q1) Care and support of the new infrastructure by municipal governments included which of the following?
A) police protection.
B) fire protection.
C) garbage removal.
D) health inspectors.
E) all of the above
Q2) How was ocean shipping transformed by the mid-nineteenth century?
A) There were more efficient, powerful engines.
B) The average size of freighters increased from 200 to 7,500 tons.
C) Steel replaced wooden hulls.
D) Propellers replaced paddle wheels.
E) All of these
Q3) Describe the lives of upper-, middle-, and working-class women in English-speaking countries between 1850 and 1914.
Q4) What were the main goals of the Meiji Restoration in late 19th century Japan?
Q5) Describe the origins and aims of labor movements and socialist politics in the late nineteenth century.
Q6) Giuseppe Garibaldi
Q7) railroads
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Chapter 28: The Crisis of the Imperial Order
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Q1) Using Map (in the textbook) 28.1, indicate (a) the Entente powers and their allies, (b) the Central Powers, and (c) neutral nations.
Q2) Sun Yat-sen
Q3) During World War I, African Americans in the United States
A) faced even greater discrimination than previously.
B) were restricted to agricultural work.
C) were not allowed in the armed forces.
D) migrated to the cities of the north in vast numbers from the rural South.
E) gained equality with whites.
Q4) In 1923, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) turned Turkey into
A) a sultanate.
B) an Islamic state.
C) a secular republic.
D) a Communist state.
E) a "mega-state" through its merger with Greece.
Q5) Fourteen Points
Q6) How did Lenin bypass the rigorous structure of Marxism in starting his political challenge of Russia?
Q7) guilt clause
Q8) Woodrow Wilson
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Q1) After staging his second coup in Brazil in 1938, Vargas firmly established
A) "demand side" economics.
B) "supply side" economics.
C) the "New State."
D) mercantilism.
E) None of these
Q2) In 1912, the African National Congress was
A) founded by Western-educated lawyers and journalists.
B) dedicated to obtaining equal voting rights.
C) dedicated to civil rights of indigenous black inhabitants.
D) all of the above.
E) b and c only.
Q3) Gandhi protested British violence and policies by being arrested and threatening to A) fight.
B) fast.
C) leave India.
D) write newspaper ads.
E) None of these
Q4) What were the circumstances prior to 1911 that triggered the Mexican Revolution?
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Chapter 30: The Collapse of the Old Order
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Q1) The Germans were unable to overcome the British use of radar and code-breaking in the Battle of Britain, which was conducted primarily by
A) air attacks.
B) submarines.
C) naval warships.
D) ground force invasion on the beaches at Hastings.
E) detonating a magneto-electric pulse on London to wipe out all electric power.
Q2) Hiroshima
Q3) What did Adolf Hitler write while in jail in the 1920s?
A) The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
B) All Quiet on the Western Front
C) Mein Kampf
D) The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
E) Das Boot
Q4) What was the source of conflict between Japan and China from 1931 to 1945?
Q5) appeasement
Q6) Discuss the implementation of the Five-Year Plans in the Soviet Union and their political, social, and economic effects.
Q7) Fascist Party
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A) build an alliance with the Soviet Union.
B) isolate China from foreign influences.
C) build modern Western-style factories.
D) industrialize using small-scale industries and collectivized agriculture.
E) put a man into space.
Q2) Which of the following is true of Israel?
A) It was declared an independent Jewish state in 1948.
B) It defeated armies sent by Arab countries in 1948.
C) It displaced 700,000 Palestinian refugees.
D) It regained Jerusalem in 1967.
E) all of the above
Q3) Which of the following best describes the independence movement in the Belgian Congo?
A) It was a civil war.
B) It introduced foreign mercenaries,
C) It was characterized by contending political and ethnic groups.
D) It included Cold War protagonists like Cuba and the U.S.S.R.
E) all of the above
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Chapter 32: The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration
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Q2) Which United States president worked to reestablish Panamanian sovereignty over the U.S. built and controlled Canal Zone?
A) Ronald Reagan
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Gerald Ford
D) George Bush
E) Bill Clinton
Q3) Using Map (in the textbook) 32.3, discuss the relationship between water resources, population, and environmental stress. Which areas of the world are under the most pressure and why? Which regions are under the least pressure and why?
Q4) Solidarity was
A) a labor union of Polish shipyard workers.
B) supported by the Catholic Church in Poland.
C) a union that caused the Polish government to impose martial law.
D) a potent force with nationally recognized leaders.
E) all of these.
Q5) Mikhail Gorbachev
Q6) ethnic cleansing
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Chapter 33: New Challenges in a New Millenium
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A) the American Department of Defense in 1960.
B) a series of Russian satellites.
C) one transnational computer company.
D) Bill Gates.
E) none of these.
Q2) Failing to find weapons of mass destruction, and after toppling Saddam Husain, the U.S. failed
A) to foresee a guerilla insurrection.
B) to prevent sectarian violence.
C) to preempt economic devastation.
D) all of the above
E) b and c only
Q3) Which of the following are examples of "NGOs"?
A) Amnesty International
B) Doctors Without Borders
C) International Campaign to Ban Land mines
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
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