Survey of World History
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Survey of World History provides an overview of the major civilizations, events, and themes that have shaped human societies from ancient times to the present. Through the study of political, economic, social, and cultural developments across different regions, this course helps students develop a broad understanding of global patterns and interconnections. Emphasis is placed on key historical transformations, such as the emergence of agriculture, the rise and fall of empires, major religious and philosophical movements, globalization, and the impact of technological advancements, enabling students to draw connections between the past and the modern world.
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Chapter 1: Before History
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Q1) Examine Map 1.2,"Origins and early spread of agriculture." What can the type and spread of agricultural products tell us about the movements of human beings and the nature of their relationship to each other?
Answer: The type and spread of agricultural products can tell us a lot about the movements of human beings and the nature of their relationship to each other. For example, the spread of certain crops or livestock can indicate the movement of people as they migrated to new areas. Additionally, the exchange of agricultural products between different groups can demonstrate trade relationships and cultural interactions. The adoption of new agricultural techniques or the domestication of new plants and animals can also reflect the ways in which different societies adapted to their environments and interacted with each other. Overall, the study of agricultural products can provide valuable insights into the movements and interactions of human beings throughout history.
Q2) The term for "new stone age" is neolithic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the
Indo-European Migrations
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Q1) Horse-drawn chariots were first invented by the A) Egyptians.
B) Assyrians.
C) Hittites.
D) Babylonians.
E) Hyksos.
Answer: C
Q2) The powerful Babylonian king who formulated a sophisticated law code was Hammurabi.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Gilgamesh is the hero of the oldest known epic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Nebuchadnezzar was the first conqueror to unite all of Mesopotamia.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations
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Q1) 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
Q2) The Nile River links the Mediterranean basin to the north and sub-Saharan Africa to the south.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Egyptians supplemented their pictographs with symbols representing sounds and ideas; they were called hieroglyphs by the Greeks.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Early Societies in South Asia
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Q1) At its height,the population of Mohenjo-daro may have reached as high as
A) 10,000
B) 20,000
C) 40,000
D) 75,000
E) 100,000
Q2) How did the Dravidian and Aryan cultures blend during this period?
Q3) Examine the journeys and nature of the Indo-Europeans.How did they influence India? How did they influence the rest of the ancient world?
Q4) Moksha is the transmigration of the soul.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The sum of good and evil in a life is known as karma.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the nature of Harappan society.What makes this society so unique? Compare it to other contemporary ancient societies.
Q7) What are the Vedas and what do they teach us about early Aryan society?
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Chapter 5: Early Society in Mainland East Asia
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Q1) Ao was an important early capital of the ________ dynasty.
A) Qin
B) Xia
C) Zhou
D) Shang
E) Harappan
Q2) Examine the Xia and Shang dynasties.What influence did these early dynasties have on later Chinese history?
Q3) The mandate of heaven
A) gave the Chinese emperors unlimited power.
B) created the notion of the Chinese emperors as gods.
C) positioned China as a theocracy ruled by priests.
D) allowed the ruler to serve as a link between the heavens and the earth.
E) originated with the Indo-Europeans before they reached China.
Q4) Early China enjoyed lasting direct long-distance trade with A) India.
B) Mesopotamia.
C) Egypt.
D) Persia.
E) None of these answers is correct.
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Chapter 6: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) The first ceremonial center of the Olmecs was
A) San Lorenzo.
B) La Venta.
C) Teotihuacan.
D) Kaminaljuyú.
E) Tikal.
Q2) In the Popol Vuh,humans were created from maize and water.Why would this explanation have made sense to the Maya? What did the gods want from their human creations? What were the earlier attempts?
Q3) Examine Map 6.3,Early societies of Oceania,1500 B.C.E.-700 C.E.How were the inspirations for exploration and colonization linked to the geography of the area? Discuss the role played by the Austronesians in this process.
Q4) Examine the Popol Vuh.What can this work tell us about the religious world of the Maya? Compare it to other creation stories studied so far in the class.
Q5) The Chavín cult was a new religion that appeared in the central Andes around 1000 B.C.E.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Empires of Persia
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Q1) The religious teacher who brought about a major transformation of Persian religion was Zarathustra.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Examine the relationship between the various Persian dynasties and the Zoroastrian religion.What does the spread of this religion say about the Persian philosophy of rule?
Q3) The Achaemenid empire began to decline under Xerxes.Was his approach any different than that of his predecessors,such as Cyrus or Darius?
Q4) Examine Map 7.1,The Achaemenid and Seleucid empires,558-330 B.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.B.C.E.and 323-83
Q5) What was a satrapy? How did satrapies help the Achaemenids rule their empire?
Q6) How did the Parthians come to control the Persian empire?
Q7) Discuss the basic tenets of Zoroastrianism.What role did Zarathustra play in the rise of this religion? How influential was Zoroastrianism on later religions?
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Chapter 8: The Unification of China
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Q1) What are the fundamental ideas and values of Confucianism? Make sure to include the concepts of ren,li,and xiao in your answer.
Q2) What was the Chinese political philosophy that called for clear and strict laws?
A) Confucianism
B) Legalism
C) Daoism
D) Buddhism
E) Hinduism
Q3) Examine Map 8.1,China under the Qin dynasty,221-207 B.C.E. How was Qin Shihuangdi able to create a state that large? How successful were his methods in the long run?
Q4) How did Shang Yang weaken the economic position of the hereditary aristocratic classes in order to strengthen the Qin state?
A) imposing major tax increases on aristocrats
B) ending the practice of hereditary inheritance
C) forcing aristocrats to serve in the military
D) burning aristocratic lands to reduce surpluses
E) granting land rights to individual cultivators
Q5) Discuss the role of the Xiongnu in the history of China during the Han.
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Chapter 9: State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
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Q1) What were the major accomplishments of the emperor Ashoka?
Q2) Compare the unification of India with the unification process in China under the Qin and Han dynasties,and in southwest Asia under the Assyrians and Persians.
Q3) Discuss the formation and beliefs of Jainism.What factors explain why it never became as successful as Hinduism or Buddhism?
Q4) Ahimsa refers to
A) the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path.
B) the Hindu concept of reincarnation.
C) the Jain principle of nonviolence.
D) Ashoka Maurya's policy of enlightened rule.
E) Kautalya's policy of harsh statecraft.
Q5) Mahayana was known as the greater vehicle because it opened the road to salvation for large numbers of people.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Examine the reign of Ashoka Maurya.In what ways was his reign the high point of Mauryan rule? How did he affect the religious beliefs of India and Asia?
Q7) How did the Gupta administrative practices differ from the Mauryan?
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Chapter 10: Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase
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Q1) In which polis did women have the most freedom?
A) Sparta
B) Corinth
C) Athens
D) Thebes
E) Syracuse
Q2) Examine the career of Alexander of Macedon.What factors drove him onto the world stage? How did he influence history?
Q3) The largest part of Alexander's conquests,essentially the former Achaemenid empire,was taken over by
A) Ptolemy.
B) Antigonus.
C) Darius.
D) Seleucus.
E) Julius Caesar.
Q4) The decisive naval battle in the Persian War was at Salamis.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was Greece like during the period after the Trojan War,from about 1100 to 800 B.C.E.?
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Chapter 11: Mediterranean Society: The Roman Phase
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Q1) Examine the moral and ethical teachings of Jesus of Nazareth (see Textbook: Sources from the Past: Jesus' Moral and Ethical Teachings).Compare his religious thought to other thinkers we have studied in the class.
Q2) Examine the intellectual world of the Romans.How did the Greeks influence the Romans? In what ways were they different?
Q3) During the Punic Wars,the Romans first fought the Carthaginians over the most important source of grain in the western Mediterranean.Where was it?
A) Britain
B) Greece
C) Egypt
D) Sicily
E) Carthage
Q4) What were the main achievements and limitations of the Roman republic and Roman empire? What were the key turning points in Roman history?
Q5) Epictetus was a slave who became a leading Roman Stoic philosopher.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How did the Romans promote trade throughout the empire?
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Chapter 12: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads: During the Late Classical Era
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Q1) In the west,the principle silk roads route terminated in the Turkish port of
A) Persepolis.
B) Antioch.
C) Constantinople.
D) Alexandria.
E) Bakhara.
Q2) In the structure of the early Christian church,who presided over the dioceses?
A) bishops
B) priests
C) archbishops
D) patriarchs
E) cardinals
Q3) Look at the picture of St.Augustine on page 257.How does the picture reflect St.Augustine's role in transforming Christianity into a religion acceptable to the educated classes?
Q4) Why is the rise of Manichaeism such a good example of the relationship between long-distance trade and the spread of religion?
Q5) Examine the collapse of the Han dynasty.What factors help explain this phenomenon? How influential were the Han on Chinese history?
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Chapter 13: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
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Q1) The Sui construction of which of these items would have important economic implications until the twentieth century?
A) Grand Canal
B) Great Wall
C) first printing press
D) modern banking industry
E) Royal Road
Q2) The success of the Tang dynasty was due to its energetic second ruler.Who was he?
A) Yang Jian
B) Song Taizu
C) Qin Shihuangdi
D) Confucius
E) Tang Taizong
Q3) Describe the relationship between Vietnam and China during the Tang and Song dynasties.How were the Vietnamese able to win their independence?
Q4) Explain how China's view of itself as the Middle Kingdom shaped foreign relations.
Q5) What agricultural developments helped to transform the Chinese economy?
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Chapter 14: The Expansive Realm of Islam
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Q1) In 595,Muhammad married a wealthy widow and entered into the ranks of elite Arabic society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Caravanserais were
A) Islamic thinkers who stressed a more emotional connection to Allah.
B) Islamic officials.
C) inns offering food and lodging for traveling merchants.
D) heretical Muslims who practiced polytheism.
E) Arabic warriors.
Q3) The main influence on the thought of Ibn Rushd was A) Muhammad.
B) Confucius.
C) Abu al-Abbas.
D) Aristotle.
E) Hippocrates.
Q4) How was the Islamic world influenced by its contact with the older Greek,Persian,and Indian societies? How did Islam influence these societies?
Q5) What factors contributed to the expansion of Islamic overland and maritime trade?
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Chapter 15: 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 any monsoon winds.
E) its strong,centralized government.
Q2) Funan dominated the lower reaches of which southeast Asian river?
A) Mekong
B) Irrawaddy
C) Salween
D) Huang He
E) Yangzi
Q3) The bhakti movement
A) never caught on in India as it had in China.
B) appealed to Indians who were stifled by the strictly monotheistic views of Hinduism.
C) tried to find god through a strictly rationalistic pursuit of the divine.
D) sought to erase the distinction between Hinduism and Islam.
E) sought to erase the distinction between Hinduism and Buddhism.
Q4) What was the function of the Hindu temple within Chola society?
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Chapter 16: The Two Worlds of Christendom
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Q1) Discuss the importance of the Franks.How did they build an empire? What role did the other Germanic tribes play after the fall of Rome?
Q2) Which of the following statements about Constantinople is NOT true?
A) It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman empire.
B) It was constructed by Constantine.
C) It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on the Sasanid empire in Persia.
D) It was built because the eastern half was the wealthier and more productive part of the empire.
E) It allowed the imperial court to keep watch on Germanic tribes on the Danube.
Q3) Historians once used the term feudalism to refer to
A) a strong,centralized political order.
B) the Byzantine religious world.
C) the Islamic bureaucratic system that dominated for over five hundred years.
D) the class of highly trained Confucian officials.
E) the political and social order of medieval Europe.
Q4) What economic advantages did the Byzantine empire possess?
Q5) Discuss the influence of Byzantium on eastern Europe.In what ways did this influence shape early Russian history?
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Chapter 17: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
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Q1) What does the story of Guillaume Boucher represent? How does it fit in with Mongol strategies for Eurasian integration?
Q2) Examine the influence of Turkish tribes in Persia,Anatolia,and India.What inspired the Turks to conquer these areas?
Q3) The Ghaznavid Turkish leader who raided and plundered India in the eleventh century was
A) Osman.
B) Chinggis Khan.
C) Hülegü.
D) Mahmud.
E) Tamerlane.
Q4) The Ottoman campaign culminated in 1453 when Osman captured the Byzantine capital of Constantinople.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What role did religion(s)play in the nomadic empires? What generalizations can you make? What are the significant differences?
Q6) Discuss the role of epidemics in the decline of the Mongol empires.
Q7) What influence did the Mongols have on Eurasian trade and cultural integration?
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Chapter 18: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) The kingdom of Ghana's capital and principal trading site was Niani.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which food,first domesticated in southeast Asia,provided a nutritious supplement to Bantu diets and allowed the Bantu to expand into forested regions?
A) yams
B) wheat
C) potatoes
D) bananas
E) pineapples
Q3) What role did the rise and development of slavery play in sub-Saharan Africa?
Q4) The most powerful state in west Africa at the time of the arrival of Islam was A) Swahili.
B) Ghana.
C) Axum.
D) Kongo.
E) Kush.
Q5) Examine religion in sub-Saharan Africa.What religions and religious concepts dominated? How did trans-Saharan trade affect African religions?
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Chapter 19: The Increasing Influence of Europe
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Q1) The guilds of the high middle ages
A) were exclusively male.
B) were designed to fight for better wages from the factory owners.
C) usually admitted women as members.
D) were designed to fight against the increasing materialism of the age.
E) were extensions of the monasteries.
Q2) The growth of urbanization was most pronounced in
A) England.
B) northern Italy.
C) France.
D) Spain.
E) Russia.
Q3) Central to the philosophy of the high middle ages was the rediscovery of A) Socrates.
B) Hippocrates.
C) Virgil.
D) Aristotle.
E) Galen.
Q4) How was Europe influenced by economic expansion and increased trade during the high middle ages? Why was long-distance trade so important?
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Chapter 20: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Cahokia was the
A) legendary founder of the Inca people.
B) dominant South American society before the rise of the Incas.
C) North American mound that was the third largest structure in the pre-Columbian Americas.
D) Aztec god also known as "the Smoking Mirror."
E) Maya woman who translated for the Spanish.
Q2) How did the Mexica people establish their authority over the peoples of central Mexico? How did the Mexica treat conquered peoples?
Q3) Mexica priests
A) played a very limited role in society.
B) had great power as advisors to the rulers.
C) made up the bulk of sacrificed victims.
D) spent the majority of their time working to improve the lives of slaves.
E) attended special state-funded schools.
Q4) About 1438,the Inca ruler Pachacuti launched a series of military campaigns that expanded the Incas' authority.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Expanding Horizons of Cross-Cultural
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Q1) The best-known long-distance traveler of Mongol times was the Venetian Marco Polo.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The nation that led the way in early European exploration was A) England.
B) France.
C) Portugal.
D) Spain.
E) the Holy Roman Empire.
Q3) According to Marco Polo's account,he was made governor of the large trading city of
A) Khanbaliq.
B) Melaka.
C) Samarkand.
D) Dunhuang.
E) Yangzhou.
Q4) What were the social and economic outcomes of the plague?
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Q5) What were the Portuguese objectives in the exploration of the coast of west Africa? What did they accomplish?
Chapter 22: Transoceanic Encounters and Global
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Q1) On 12 October 1492,Columbus made landfall on an island that the native Taíno called A) Palos.
B) Guanahaní.
C) Calicut.
D) San Salvador.
E) Gao.
Q2) The astrolabe was designed to measure A) latitude. B) velocity.
C) distance.
D) longitude.
E) depth.
Q3) What factors contributed to the dramatic economic growth and the ensuing population growth of Russia in the eighteenth century?
Q4) After reading the selection from Christopher Columbus's journal,can you tell what Columbus's motives were for exploration? (See Textbook: Sources from the Past: Christopher Columbus's First Impressions of the American Peoples.)
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Chapter 23: The Transformation of Europe
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Q1) What are some the reasons suggested for the widespread persecution of suspected witches in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
Q2) The Catholic church dramatically pushed the sale of indulgences in the sixteenth century because of the
A) need to match the resurgence of the Byzantine empire.
B) threat posed by Islam.
C) need for Henry VIII to pay off the national debt.
D) expense associated with translating original Greek classics.
E) need to raise funds for the construction of St. Peter's basilica.
Q3) Which of the following conflicts was a major war that unfolded in the wake of the Peace of Westphalia?
A) the English civil war
B) the Thirty Years' War
C) the Hundred Years' War
D) the Seven Years' War
E) the Glorious Revolution
Q4) What were the foundations of the scientific revolution? Could there be a disadvantage to the period's new emphasis on reason? What,if anything,was missing from this new intellectual universe?
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Chapter 24: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Planters in North America initially met the demand for cheap labor by recruiting indentured servants from Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The last emperor of the Aztec empire was A) Atahualpa.
B) Motecuzoma II.
C) Itzcóatl.
D) Topa.
E) Motecuzoma I.
Q3) Hernán Cortés was responsible for the conquest of the A) Taíno.
B) Chimu.
C) Incas.
D) Aztecs.
E) Moche.
Q4) 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?
Q5) Explain how sugar production came to dictate so much of colonial Brazilian life.
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Q1) By 1800,the population of sub-Saharan Africa stood at
A) twenty-one million.
B) thirty-four million.
C) forty-five million.
D) sixty million.
E) eighty-four million.
Q2) The kings of Kongo converted to Christianity as a way to establish closer commercial relations with Portuguese merchants and diplomatic relations with the Portuguese monarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare the experience of slaves in the Caribbean,in Brazil,and in North America.
Q4) Examine the social and political influence of the slave trade on African societies.Were there African societies that benefited from the slave trade?
Q5) Describe both native African resistance to the slave trade and the forms of resistance among African slaves in the Americas.How much success did these efforts have?
Q6) How was the kingdom of Kongo transformed by its contacts with the Portuguese?
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Chapter 26: Tradition and Change in East Asia
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Q1) After the arrival of the Europeans,
A) east Asian societies quickly fell under indirect European economic control.
B) the rapid spread of Christianity threatened the very survival of Buddhism.
C) east Asian societies immediately fell under direct European control.
D) east Asian societies quickly copied the ways of the more advanced Europeans.
E) east Asian societies largely controlled their own affairs until the nineteenth century.
Q2) One of the results of the peace brought by the Tokugawa period was
A) a tremendous growth in European trade.
B) an even greater political role for the samurai.
C) the tripling of the Japanese population between 1600 and 1850.
D) a reduction in status for the samurai and daimyo.
E) a resurgence in daimyo authority.
Q3) Examine the unification of Japan.What role did Tokugawa Ieyasu play in this movement? How did he influence Japanese history?
Q4) Chinese tradition held that the emperor was the "Son of Heaven," the human being designated by heavenly powers to maintain order on the earth.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 27: The Islamic Empires
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A) Süleyman the Magnificent.
B) Osman Bey.
C) Selim the Grim.
D) Mehmed II.
E) Shah Ismail.
Q2) By what steps did Shah Abbas achieve a strong and unified Safavid state?
Q3) The Safavids traced their ancestry back to the leader Safi al-Din,who observed what religion?
A) Buddhism
B) Hinduism
C) Sufism
D) Christianity
E) Judaism
Q4) By 1530 when Babur died he had built an empire from Kabul to the borders of Bengal and founded the Mughal dynasty.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What factors led to the economic and military decline of the Islamic empires?
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Q6) Compare Akbar's policies with those of Aurangzeb.
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Chapter 28: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
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Q1) Describe the ways in which the Congress of Vienna remade the political order of Europe.In what ways did it support or detract from conservative or nationalist ideas?
Q2) Which of the following revolutionary leaders is NOT correctly linked with his country?
A) Bernardo O'Higgins and Chile
B) Toussaint Louverture and Haiti
C) José de San Martín and Argentina
D) Augustín de Iturbide and Mexico
E) Miguel de Hidalgo and Peru
Q3) Which of the following was NOT one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers?
A) popular sovereignty
B) legal equality
C) political equality
D) equality between women and men
E) individual freedom
Q4) Compare the unification of Italy with the unification of Germany.
Q5) In what specific ways did the ideals of the Enlightenment challenge long-held assumptions about government and social order?
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Chapter 29: The Making of Industrial Society
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Q1) Beginning in the nineteenth century,industrializing lands experienced a social change known as the demographic transition when
A) 60 percent of the people were 55 years old and older.
B) the rural population increased dramatically.
C) the fertility rate increased dramatically.
D) the majority of the population was college educated.
E) the fertility rate began a marked decline.
Q2) Marx and Engels proposed that capitalism divided people into two classes.The classes were
A) the capitalists and the bourgeoisie.
B) the capitalists and the proletariat.
C) the workers and the peasantry.
D) the capitalists and the middle class.
E) the proletariat and the nobility.
Q3) Examine the roots of the socialist movement.What were the basic goals of the utopian socialists? How did this movement evolve under Marx?
Q4) How total was the transformation brought about by the industrial revolution? Did anything of the old world remain? Was there opposition to this transition?
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Chapter 30: The Americas in the Age of Independence
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Q1) Summarize the political and cultural conflict between city and pampas in Argentina.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT true of the conflict in the Civil War?
A) The north fought exclusively for the abolishment of slavery.
B) Around 90 percent of the country's industrial capacity was in the north.
C) Two-thirds of the railroad lines were in the north.
D) Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was followed two years later by the Thirteenth Amendment.
E) The first two years of the war ended in stalemate.
Q3) Look at the picture of the Plains Indian camp on page 697.What fate befell the natives of North America in the nineteenth century? Of what significance were the battles of the Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee?
Q4) The last major native American resistance was defeated in 1890 at the battle of A) the Little Bighorn.
B) Etowah.
C) Fort Apache.
D) Sioux River.
E) Wounded Knee.
Q5) How did the caudillos rise to power in Latin America? Who benefited most from their rule?
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Q1) Look at the picture of nineteenth-century Russian merchants on page 730.How does it represent Russia's uneasy marriage of western European and traditional Russian influences? How successful were Russia's efforts at modernization and industrialization?
Q2) Which of the following was NOT a reform proposed in the Tanzimat era?
A) educational reform
B) equality under the law for all Ottoman subjects
C) democracy as the governmental model for the empire
D) a new penal code
E) a new commercial code
Q3) Compare and contrast the changing situations in the Ottoman,Russian,Qing,and Tokugawa states during the nineteenth century.What common problems did they face? Were some more successful in adapting than others? If so,what accounts for the success?
Q4) What factors led to the collapse of the Tokugawa government and the restoration of the emperor Meiji in 1868?
Q5) Examine the Meiji restoration.What were its guiding principles? Why did it copy western Europe and the United States? Why was Japan successful in modernizing while Russia,China,and the Ottomans struggled? Was there a downside to the Meiji restoration?
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Chapter 32: The Building of Global Empires
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A) Melbourne
B) Sydney
C) Cape Town
D) New South Wales
E) Wellington
Q2) Examine the illustration from the book Indigenous Races of the Earth on page 769.What role did racism play in European imperialism? Discuss the ideas of Gobineau and Spencer.
Q3) New South Wales was originally settled by about one thousand people,most of them convicted criminals,
A) but they gradually died out due to famine and disease.
B) but they were soon displaced by British ranchers,who needed the land for their sheep.
C) but voluntary migrants outnumbered convicts within 50 years.
D) who were pardoned and given the opportunity to purchase land.
E) and it remained a penal colony until 1905.
Q4) How did the imperial powers transform the economies of their colonies? Consider especially India and Ceylon.
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Q1) The German offensive of 1914 was halted at A) Gallipoli.
B) the Marne River.
C) Verdun.
D) the Somme.
E) Prussia.
Q2) What role did women play in World War I? What effect would their contribution to the war effort have on their lives both during and after the war? How does this effect relate to concepts such as total war and the home front?
Q3) In World War I,the eastern front was
A) characterized by more fluid battle lines than the western front.
B) a bloody stalemate.
C) an Austrian victory in which Austria displaced Germany as the leading Central Power. D) a hard-fought,albeit slow,English and French victory.
E) dominated by the Ottoman Turks.
Q4) Imagine that you are a common soldier at a World War I battle such as Verdun or the Somme.What obstacles would you have faced? Why would your offensive assaults not work?
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Chapter 34: An Age of Anxiety
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A) rationality
B) conformist art
C) nationalism
D) materialism
E) abstract art
Q2) What were some of the economic problems facing the world powers in the 1920s? Specifically,what factors led to the crash of 1929 and the depression that followed?
Q3) To finance reparation payments to France and England,the governments of Austria and Germany relied on
A) agricultural surpluses.
B) U.S. loans and investment.
C) investment in British companies.
D) war bonds.
E) infrastructure sales.
Q4) What are some examples of "economic nationalism"? How effective were these measures?
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Chapter 35: Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
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Q1) One of the greatest proponents of Pan-Africanism was
A) Martin Luther King,Jr.
B) Malcolm X.
C) Jomo Kenyatta.
D) Marcus Garvey.
E) Jesse Jackson.
Q2) Indian nationals were influenced by
A) Winston Churchill.
B) Woodrow Wilson.
C) Adolf Hitler.
D) Benito Mussolini.
E) Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Q3) Examine Map 35.1,The struggle for control in China,1927-1936.What were the main groups contesting for control of China? What threat did the Japanese represent to Chinese independence?
Q4) Looking at the careers of artist Diego Rivera and entertainer Carmen Miranda,discuss how popular culture related to international politics and diplomacy between the United States and Latin America during the decades after the Great War.
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A) failed,and Hitler was not able to conquer Britain.
B) allowed Hitler to surprise the French and enter Paris with relative ease.
C) failed because of stiffening Russian resistance and the onset of winter.
D) freed Italy.
E) overwhelmed the Germans and led to the collapse of the German western front.
Q2) In March 1938,Hitler forced Anschluss with Austria,justifying the annexation as an attempt to reintegrate all Germans into a single homeland.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What were the consequences of World War II? How destructive was the war? How was the postwar world shaped by the war?
Q4) The Bay of Pigs was an invasion of Cuban nationals trained by the United States; it was a failure,but it weakened Castro's position in Cuba.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was the Japanese purpose in attacking the United States? What was their long-range plan?
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A) the United States agreed to enter World War I.
B) Korea was divided along the 38<sup>th</sup> parallel.
C) the Irish officially stated that they couldn't support the British in the war effort.
D) the British government committed itself to supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
E) the Russians officially surrendered to the Germans and pulled out of World War I.
Q2) The U.S.-backed Somoza family ruled what country for more than forty years?
A) Cuba
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) San Salvador
E) Nicaragua
Q3) Discuss India's role as a functioning democracy.Why did India remain democratic when so many of its neighbors underwent revolutions or were brought down by military coups? Who were the important leaders? Why would democracy be such a challenge in a country like India?
Q4) What factors led to the partition of India? What kinds of states emerged?
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Q2) What has become the "universal tongue" of the twenty-first century?
A) html
B) hip hop
C) English
D) Spanglish
E) commercialism
Q3) The Asian economic crisis began in 1997 in what country?
A) China
B) Thailand
C) Hong Kong
D) Japan
E) South Korea
Q4) What roles have international organizations such as the United Nations played in today's world? How will they continue to shape the future?
Q5) What factors led to the oil embargo of 1973-1975? What were the results?
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