Survey of World History Exam Questions
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Survey of World History provides an expansive overview of major events, ideas, cultures, and civilizations from ancient times to the present. The course explores key turning points such as the development of agriculture, the rise and fall of empires, the spread of religions, the transformation caused by technological and industrial revolutions, and the impact of global interactions. Through examination of political, economic, social, and cultural trends across diverse regions, students gain a foundational understanding of how the past has shaped contemporary societies and the interconnected nature of the modern world.
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Chapter 1: The Dry Bones Speak
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Q1) Which of these was closest to Homo sapiens?
A) Australopithecus afarensis
B) Homo erectus
C) Ardipithecus ramidus
D) Toumai
Answer: B
Q2) The first colonization of Southeast Asia,unlike colonization of the Pacific islands
A) occurred by land
B) was colonized from Asia
C) occurred rapidly
D) was part of the same general movement of peoples
Answer: A
Q3) Southeast Asia was peopled around ________ years ago.
A) 50,000
B) 1 million
C) 3000
D) 150,000
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: From Village Community to City-State
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Q1) At its farthest,the Sumerian trading network stretched from ________ to
A) Greece; India
B) Italy; Arabia
C) Anatolia; Mesopotamia
D) Egypt; the Iranian plateau
Answer: A
Q2) The Natufian culture around 8000 B.C.E.was an example of a(n)________ culture.
A) hominid
B) Neolithic
C) hunting and gathering
D) urban
Answer: B
Q3) On the map "The spread of civilizations," which of these regions represents the process of diffusion?
A) Indus valley civilization
B) ancient Egypt
C) Anasazi/Pueblo culture
D) Mesopotamia
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: River Valley Civilizations
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Q1) What was the principal function of nomes in Egypt?
A) irrigation
B) organization
C) defense
D) urbanization
Answer: B
Q2) The "kingdoms" of Egyptian history represent ________.
A) dynasties
B) territories
C) periods of relative continuity
D) periods of invasion
Answer: C
Q3) The largest cities of the Indus Valley civilization contained about ________ people.
A) 40,000
B) 500,000
C) 8,000
D) 900,000
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: A Polycentric World
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Q1) Which of these dynasties came to power around 1122 B.C.E.?
A) Zhou
B) Xia
C) Shang
D) Win
Q2) Was Jenne-jeno a city? Support your answer by comparison with other early urban centers.
Q3) Oracle bones were used to ________.
A) record commercial transactions
B) predict the future
C) write epics
D) record prayers
Q4) Which of these was cultivated by China's first Neolithic cultures?
A) barley
B) maize
C) oats
D) millet
Q5) Considering urbanization in China,the Americas,and Africa,what do you consider the most important elements that would qualify a settlement as a town?
Q6) 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) Which of these peoples conquered a vast Middle Eastern empire from around 900 B.C.E.?
A) Egyptians
B) Akkadians
C) Assyrians
D) Hittites
Q2) Unlike the Hittites,the Amorites were ________.
A) Indo-European
B) invaders
C) empire-builders
D) Semitic
Q3) The Behistun stone served the same purpose for Persian as the ________ for ancient Egyptian.
A) Great Pyramid
B) Narmer palette
C) Rosetta Stone
D) First Cataract
Q4) How can you explain the fame of Alexander's conquests? Is this fame deserved?
Q5) Compare the empires created by Assyrian and Egyptian rulers.What were their most important similarities and differences?
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Chapter 6: Rome and the Barbarians
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Q1) Like Augustus,Justinian was responsible for ________ in the Roman Empire.
A) civil war
B) religious innovation
C) ending invasions
D) extensive political reorganization
Q2) The Silk Road can be said to have reached from China to ________.
A) the heart of the Roman Empire
B) India
C) Central Asia
D) the fringes of the Roman Empire
Q3) The death of Caesar indicates that his rule had threatened the power of Rome's ________.
A) senators
B) triumvirate
C) merchants
D) army
Q4) Compare the Roman Empire to Alexander's empire.Why did they have such different fates?
Q5) Compare the fates of the eastern and western Roman empires.Why did they differ so much?
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Chapter 7: China
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Q1) Which of these was most likely to support Chinese expansion?
A) Confucianism
B) Legalism
C) Daoism
D) Buddhism
Q2) Which of these was the philosophy favored by Qin rulers?
A) Daoism
B) Buddhism
C) Confucianism
D) Legalism
Q3) The founder of the Tang dynasty was ________.
A) Wang Mang
B) Wudi
C) Shi Huangdi
D) Gaozu
Q4) Theravada is a form of ________.
A) Buddhism
B) Daoism
C) Confucianism
D) Legalism
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Chapter 8: Indian Empires
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Q1) Which of these dynasties ruled India from the fourth to the sixth centuries?
A) Pallava
B) Chola
C) Maurya
D) Gupta
Q2) The kingdom of ________ was based on Sumatra.
A) Bhadravarman
B) Srivijaya
C) the Khmer
D) Chola
Q3) The Hunas followed the most common pattern of invasion into India ________.
A) from the northwest
B) by sea
C) from central Asia
D) via the Ganges valley
Q4) The impact of the Aryan invasion on South Asia can be characterized as ________.
A) limited to the north
B) short-lived
C) disastrous
D) extensive
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Chapter 9: Hinduism and Buddhism
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Q1) Hinduism around 1000 B.C.E is best characterized as ________.
A) based entirely on Harappan precedents
B) introduced by Aryan immigrants
C) emerging
D) syncretistic
Q2) In Shinto,natural spirits are ________.
A) kami
B) bodhisattvas
C) tantras
D) vaishyas
Q3) The map "Hindu south Asia" indicates that Hinduism ________ India.
A) has roots all over
B) is associated primarily with northern
C) is based in the Indus valley
D) is strongest where Jainism is weakest
Q4) In China,Buddhism ________.
A) replaced Daoism
B) never completely took hold
C) was accepted alongside earlier spiritual traditions
D) first competed with but ultimately triumphed over Confucianism
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Chapter 10: Judaism and Christianity
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Q1) The Ten Tribes of Israel were "lost" in the sense that ________.
A) their location was unknown
B) their homeland was lost
C) the Jewish kingdom split into Israel and Judah
D) they abandoned their faith
Q2) 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
Q3) The term Messiah indicates that Christianity emerged in a ________ context.
A) Roman
B) secular
C) revolutionary
D) Jewish
Q4) What were the most important lines of development in Judaism?
Q5) Is Christianity a Jewish sect? Why or why not?
Q6) How did Paul and Augustine reshape Christianity? Would you consider these modifications profound or superficial?
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Chapter 11: Islam
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Q1) Which of these is one of the five pillars of Islam?
A) jihad
B) daily prayer
C) dar al-Islam
D) Sufism
Q2) Like Alexander's empire,the empire based in Ghazni ________.
A) lasted only a few decades
B) served as a bridge between the Middle East and India
C) introduced a new religion to India
D) was based primarily on commerce
Q3) The Arab expansion into Western Europe was stopped in 732 by the ________.
A) Byzantine Empire
B) Romans
C) Franks
D) Visigoths
Q4) The Abbasid capital was at ________.
A) Mecca
B) Damascus
C) Persepolis
D) Baghdad
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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) Which of these was a Mongol ruler of China?
A) Yung-lo
B) Zheng He
C) Osman I
D) Kubilai Khan
Q3) The Zheng He voyages can be characterized as ________.
A) disastrous
B) unsuccessful
C) a turning point in Chinese history
D) successful
Q4) What were the most important trading patterns in Africa? How did these shape African states?
Q5) Why did China ultimately decide not to pursue overseas trade? What was the impact of this decision?
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Chapter 13: The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific
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Q1) Looking at the map "World exploration,1450-1600," compared to the Americas,which of these was least immune to European incursions?
A) Africa
B) China
C) Mughal India
D) the Philippines
Q2) The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is found in what city?
A) Rome
B) Florence
C) Milan
D) Venice
Q3) In The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait,which of these is a focus in this double portrait?
A) piety
B) affluence
C) love
D) domestic happiness
Q4) What drove the Renaissance? Compare the different factors that drove this burst of artistic and intellectual activity.
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Chapter 14: The Unification of World Trade
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Q1) The millet system in the Ottoman Empire followed the same tradition as Muslim treatment of ________.
A) slaves
B) dhimmi
C) foreigners
D) merchants
Q2) The English Navigation Act of 1651 imposed ________.
A) taxes on all slave ships
B) restrictions on who could ship to and from England and its colonies
C) import duties on tea and sugar
D) expensive licenses on anyone wanting to trade within the British Empire
Q3) Akbar was ruler of the ________ Empire.
A) Mughal
B) Ottoman
C) Timurid
D) Safavid
Q4) Compare the goals of Spanish and Portuguese colonization.How did these goals affect these nations' imperial institutions?
Q5) How did the emergence of the nation-state change the nature of imperialism?
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Chapter 15: Migration
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Q1) More than ________ Europeans went to the "New Europes" between 1820 and 1930.
A) fifty million
B) 5 million
C) 500,000
D) 500 million
Q2) The Safavid capital was at ________.
A) Delhi
B) Isfahan
C) Baghdad
D) Karkorum
Q3) The Safavids were based in what is today ________.
A) Syria
B) India
C) Iran
D) Turkey
Q4) Babur is best known for his ________.
A) introduction of Islam to India
B) foundation of the Mughal Empire
C) conquest of India
D) development of Din-i-Ilahi
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Chapter 16: Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas
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Q1) The Congress of Vienna met to conclude a peace ending the ________.
A) American Civil War
B) Napoleonic Wars
C) War of 1812
D) American Revolutionary War
Q2) The author of Candide and of Elements of the Philosophy of Newton was ________.
A) John Locke
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Voltaire
D) Abbé Sieyès
Q3) Which of these was first developed by Isaac Newton?
A) the sun-centered model of the universe
B) a model for the circulatory system
C) the idea of the social contract
D) the law of gravity
Q4) One of the most famous enlightened despots was ________.
A) Peter the Great
B) Louis XVI
C) Charles II
D) Frederick II
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Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
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Q1) Identify two or three factors that you think answer the question "Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?" Support your choices.
Q2) Which of these was first produced in 1829 by George Stephenson?
A) the Rocket
B) electricity
C) chemical fertilizer
D) synthetic rubber
Q3) Neocolonialism is based on ________.
A) conquest
B) economic ties
C) cultural ties
D) migration
Q4) Which of these men worked to improve working conditions in England in the nineteenth century?
A) Karl Marx
B) Ned Ludd
C) Edwin Chadwick
D) Jethro Tull
Q5) 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) The mfecane emerged near ________.
A) the Cape Colony
B) Morocco
C) Kongo kingdom
D) Ethiopia
Q2) The example of Poland showed that in some cases ________.
A) nationalism is not enough to create a nation-state
B) religious schisms weaken nationalist movements
C) nationalism is not capable of uniting a nation with no sense of a common history
D) a nation-state can be created with no nation
Q3) The combatants in the Opium War were ________.
A) India and China
B) India and Japan
C) France and Spain
D) China and Britain
Q4) How did European imperialism change in the 1800s?
Q5) Consider anticolonialism in the late 1800s.What form did it take,and how successful was it?
Q6) Were revolts such as the one led by the Mahdi and Usman dan Fodio anticolonial?
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Chapter 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction
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Q1) The German announcement that it would resume unrestricted submarine warfare was ________ for the U.S.entry into World War I.
A) the trigger
B) a background cause
C) one of the triggers
D) a pretext
Q2) The ruler of Russia at the outbreak of World War I was ________.
A) Nicholas II
B) Alexander II
C) Catherine II
D) Peter the Great
Q3) European industry helped to push India to ________ by around 1910.
A) industrialization
B) commercial agriculture
C) a green revolution
D) neocolonialism
Q4) Examine the theme of "International Role Reversals" by comparing two countries whose global roles changed in the early 1900s.
Q5) How did World War I differ from earlier conflicts?
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Chapter 20: World War II
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Q1) 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
Q2) A criticism common to all of the memorial museums and exhibitions is that they all
A) deal only with German war crimes
B) do not consider the faults of the victors
C) are strongly biased
D) focus on Jewish suffering
Q3) The Anti-Comintern Pact was motivated primarily because the signatories
________.
A) were historical allies
B) had a common enemy
C) shared a religious ideology
D) were opposed to Italy
Q4) Compare responses to World War II.How have they attempted to deal with the legacy of the war?
Q5) What commonalities led to the emergence of fascism in different countries?
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Chapter 21: Cold War, New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority
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Q1) France fought a protracted war to prevent ________ from gaining its independence.
A) Morocco
B) Algeria
C) Syria
D) Libya
Q2) McCarthyism was a second ________.
A) depression
B) 1968
C) Red Scare
D) Wall Street crash
Q3) What are the strengths and weakness of the United Nation in pursuing its charter?
Q4) Compare two countries' decolonization experiences.How do you account for these differences?
Q5) Fidel Castro was the ________ premier from 1961 to 2011.
A) Cuban
B) Brazilian
C) Mexican
D) Guatemalan
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Chapter 22: China and India
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Q1) What do you consider the most striking similarities between China and India around 1945?
Q2) Gandhi's salt march was an attack on ________.
A) British beliefs
B) neocolonialism
C) India's backwards industry
D) religious traditions
Q3) Which of these made the Pakistan of 1947 unsustainable?
A) It lacked a religious majority.
B) It held India's historic heartland.
C) It was India's poorest state.
D) It was divided geographically.
Q4) India's "white revolution" concerned what industry?
A) steel
B) salt
C) textiles
D) dairy
Q5) How did Mao's political ideas evolve after the victory of 1949?
Q6) In the context of millennia of Indian history,why was India unified in the twentieth century?
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Chapter 23: Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, Politics,
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Q1) China's government has recently been________ the process of urbanization.
A) hostile to
B) unconcerned with
C) working to assist
D) extremely active in
Q2) For François Mitterrand,in "The Continuing Rationale for European Integration," the most important role of European integration is ________.
A) maintaining the balance of power
B) limiting German aggression
C) economic stability
D) keeping the peace
Q3) The adoption of "sites and services" policies concerning slums can be considered a ________ measure.
A) punitive
B) progressive
C) compromise
D) desperate
Q4) How has the end of the Cold War changed international politics?
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Q5) What are the most important aspects of China's changing role in the world?
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Chapter 24: Trade,Revolution,Technology,Identity
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Q1) Research on nanosubstances as challenged our previous knowledge of ________.
A) biology
B) computer technology
C) chemistry
D) ecology
Q2) What is the role of new technologies in globalization? Are such technologies critical for globalization?
Q3) The Schengen Agreement concerned regulated ________ in Europe.
A) immigration and importation
B) a common currency
C) nuclear reactors
D) creating the eurozone
Q4) Which of these is commonly used to create ethanol?
A) coal
B) oil
C) corn
D) methane
Q5) What are the key issues in attempts to address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions?
Q6) How does globalization differ from earlier global trade networks?
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