Western Civilization Since 1500
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Course Introduction
This course explores the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Western Civilization from the early modern era to the present. Topics include the Renaissance and Reformation, the rise of nation-states, the Enlightenment, revolutions in America and France, the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, the world wars, the Cold War, and contemporary challenges. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will gain a deeper understanding of the forces that have shaped modern Western societies and their global impact.
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The Essential World History Volume II Since 1500 7th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Pedro Cabral
Q2) What were the possible factors that allowed some non-western societies to resist or cope with the arrival of Westerners better than others? Give examples.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). encomienda system
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Marco Polo's Travels
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Leo Africanus
Q6) How did Spanish methods of dealing with their new territories in America affect the native populations there?
Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Gold Coast
Q8) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Mwene Metapa
Q9) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Christopher Columbus Page 3
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) As a result of the Glorious Revolution,England became a
A)republic.
B)divine right monarchy.
C)federated commonwealth.
D)democracy.
E)constitutional monarchy.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). divine right theory and absolutism
Q3) Which of the following was not a result of the development of printing in Europe?
A)Research and learning increased.
B)Standard textbooks were developed.
C)More people began to read.
D)Chinese influence over European affairs rose sharply because of their invention of paper.
E)It played a major role in the Protestant Reformation.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Pope Paul III and the Council of Trent
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Saint Petersburg
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) All of the following were true about the reign of Shah Jahan except that
A)he was able to expand the Mughal domain.
B)he put economic strains on his people with his ongoing programs of conquest and construction enterprises.
C)famine and drought did not plague India during his rule.
D)he built the Red Fort in Delhi.
E)the expense of building the Taj Mahal required him to increase agricultural taxes.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). pashas
Q3) Two great military victories in India,in which the winner defeated a force ten times larger than its own,were,respectively,
A)Babur's victory at Delhi and the British victory at Plassey.
B)Buxar's victory at Colombo and the French victory at Pondicherry.
C)Wilson's victory at Mumbai and Babur's victory at Kandahar.
D)Mojoks' victory at Madras and Clive's victory at Kabul.
E)Maharashtra's victory at Walando and Dupleix's victory at Kabul.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Shah Abbas I the Great
Q5) What were the significant cultural contributions of Ottoman art?
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Beijing
Q2) Unemployed samurai warriors were known as the A)eta.
B)ronin.
C)yangban.
D)fudai.
E)tozama.
Q3) During the early 17<sup>th</sup> century,fortress palaces were built in Japan following European practices.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did firearms first reach Japan?
A)via China prior to the arrival of Europeans
B)via the Portuguese who were the first European traders
C)via the English who supplanted the Portuguese in China
D)via the Indian trade across the Silk Road
E)via Korea and Vietnam who sought money to finance their wars of independence against China
Q5) "Kangxi was the very model of a Chinese emperor." Discuss pro and con.
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) A discovery made by Galileo was the A)development of the calculus.
B)fallacy of the existence of sunspots and the phases of Venus.
C)five moons revolving around Pluto.
D)similarity of the material composition of other planets and the moon to that of the earth.
E)totally flat terrain of the earth's moon.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Isaac Newton's Principia
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Stamp Act
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Scientific Revolution
Q5) Isaac Newton was an inspiration for the Enlightenment in his contention that the world and everything in it worked like a giant machine.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract
Q7) How "revolutionary" was the French Revolution? Give specific examples.
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Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization:
Industrialization
and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Piedmont's prime minister,Count Cavour,stated that Italy would be unified,"Not by speeches and majorities...but by blood and iron."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Karl Marx believed that all of human history was the story of
A)the survival of the fittest.
B)the class struggle.
C)the ends justifying the means.
D)peasant rebellions.
E)nationalism.
Q3) Marxist revisionists believe that
A)violent revolution was inevitable.
B)the bourgeoisie would inevitably triumph.
C)were advocates of revolutionary socialism.
D)workers should organize mass political parties.
E)revolution would be led by the peasants.
Q4) Compare and contrast the processes and results of national unification in Italy and Germany.Did liberalism and nationalism play the same roles in both societies?
Q5) What environmental and social factors tend to favor industrialization?
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Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
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Q1) The cities whose population grew from 172,000 to 2,700,000 and from 960,000 to 6,500,000 during the 1800s,respectively,were
A)New York and Tokyo.
B)Paris and London.
C)Berlin and Milan.
D)Berlin and London.
E)Batavia and Shanghai.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "mass education"
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "mass society"
Q5) The late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the West has been labeled an 'era of both progress and anxiety.' Discuss the meaning of this statement with specific examples.
Q6) Did change or tradition have more influence on economics and politics in Latin America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How and why?
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Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
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Q1) Compare and contrast British and French imperialism as to governing philosophies,impact upon the colonial populations,and imperial successes,however measured.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 'Old' and 'New' Imperialism
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Sierra Leone,Senegal,and the Gold Coast
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Mahdi and Charles "Chinese" Gordon
Q5) David Livingstone
A)was the first European to climb Mount Ararat.
B)personally put an end to the Zanzibar slave market with his "Green Band Army."
C)obtained great fame from his African missionary and anti-slavery work.
D)discovered the source of the Nile.
E)constructed an Anglican cathedral on the former site of the Zanzibar slave market.
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Basutoland,Bechuanaland,and Swaziland
Q7) Discuss some of the non-economic motives for Western imperialism.In your opinion,were the economic or non-economic motives of primary importance,and why?
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Chapter 22: Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge
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Q1) The Meiji Restoration
A)was a true revolution,in which the existing ruling class was replaced by a new ruling class.
B)was similar to the French Revolution because of the considerable violence involved.
C)granted women full equality with men.
D)was in many ways a revolution from above.
E)failed as the shogunate was quickly restored.
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). opium trade and Opium War
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "dancing cabinet"
Q4) The Opium War
A)finally forced China to cease selling opium in India and Singapore.
B)was ended by the Treaty of Taiwan.
C)gave Britain control of Hong Kong.
D)ended with a British defeat.
E)gave China the right to sell opium in India.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). John Hay and the Open Door
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and Revolution
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Q1) Explain,using specific examples of artists,schools of art,etc.,how the horrors of World War I affected various forms of artistic expression in Europe and the U.S.Can this artistic reaction be termed a revolution? If so,why? If not,why not?
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Togoland,Cameroons,South West Africa,Marshall,Mariana,and Caroline Islands
Q4) The Dawes Plan was all of the following except it
A)was developed after the massive inflation of 1923.
B)served as a mechanism for the reduction and stabilization of German war reparations.
C)provided Germany with a $200 million recovery loans.
D)ultimately resulted in American investments in Europe that produced a period of prosperity there in the 1920s.
E)permanently solved all of Germany's economic problems.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "war communism"
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Weimar Republic and Paul von Hindenburg
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Chapter 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and
the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Guomindang,Sun Yat-sen,and Chiang Kai-shek
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Geishas
Q3) In his reforms to modernize Turkey on the western model,Ataturk established a constitutional monarchy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) All of the following are correct about Iraq except
A)the region had been under Ottoman rule since the seventeenth century
B)after World War I,the British governed Iraq under a League of Nations "mandate."
C)the British ruled through the minority urban Shi-ite population.
D)a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad became king in 1921.
E)oil was discovered near Kirkuk in 1927.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). League of Nations' mandates
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Aramco
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Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War II
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Grand Alliance
Q2) Which of the following military news items would have been welcomed by Hitler?
A)the results of the Battle of Britain
B)the results of the battle of El Alamein.
C)the results of the Blitzkrieg against Denmark,Norway,Belgium,the Netherlands,and France.
D)the results of the battle of Stalingrad.
E)the results of the battle of Moscow.
Q3) Compare and contrast the role of women in the war economies of the West and Japan.How do you explain the difference?
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "Monroe Doctrine for Asia"
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Hitler Jugend
Q7) In 1939,Germany and the Soviet Union officially divided Poland between them. A)True B)False
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Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). the Strategic Defense Initiative/"Star Wars"
Q2) The Marshall Plan was a military alliance directed against Soviet aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Greek civil war
Q4) Josip Tito
A)had attended Peking University with Mao Zedong.
B)devised a decentralized variety of Communism,different from "Stalinism."
C)was defeated in his attempt to become Prime Minister of Yugoslavia as the result of American campaigning against socialist or communist leaders.
D)was part of the government-in-exile during the war.
E)was an ally of Joseph Stalin in the latter's attempt to crush the Serbs.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 1975 Helsinki Agreement
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Marshall mission to China
Q7) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). George Kennan and "containment"
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Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Great Leap Forward
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "commonwealth of independent states"
Q3) In the 1990s
A)the Chinese Communist Party has worked to conciliate the rural population by increasing the political democracy in urban areas.
B)rural conditions are more problematic,as most peasants have only superficially benefited from the post-Mao reforms,and corruption continues unchecked.
C)the Party is apparently experimenting with Confucianism and jingoistic nationalism to unite the society,and thus limiting individualism and economic expectations.
D)China's economy suffered a devastating depression.
E)China prohibited any further foreign investment.
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Mao Zedong's "New Democracy"
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago
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Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945
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Q1) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). "...to Americanize the world"
Q2) Which of the following is a correct statement about postwar Canadian political development?
A)Lester Pearson advocated political union with the United States.
B)The Liberal Party created Canada's welfare state.
C)Brian Mulroney opposed a free trades agreement with the United States that was very well received by all Canadians.
D)Quebec will be granted independence in 2006,as a result of the national referendum.
E)Vast oil reserves were discovered off the coast of British Columbia.
Q3) West German Chancellor Willy Brandt received the Noble Peace Price in 1972 for his "opening toward the East" policies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Euro-Zone countries
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Organization of American States (OAS)
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Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
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Q1) Compare and contrast developments in the Middle East during the era preceding World War II with those of the war years and after.Are the changes due primarily to the war's impact on the peoples of the Middle East or on other factors? Why?
Q2) Which of the following is not true about the role of women in post-colonial Africa?
A)Women have achieved considerable success in politics,becoming president or prime minister in several countries.
B)Woman are permitted to vote and run for political office in most African nations.
C)Independence has furthered the cause of sexual equality in Africa.
D)Female genital mutilation is not uncommon in some African societies.
E)Woman have made greater strides in urban rather than in rural areas.
Q3) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Islamic women and the veil and chador
Q4) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Syria's Ba'ath Party
Q6) Instructions: Identify the following term(s).F.W.de Klerk and Nelson Mandela
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Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century
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Junichiro Koizumi
Q2) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Republic of China (Taiwan)
Q3) What factors assisted the rapid development of Korean industry and agriculture since the early 1960s? Were the same factors used in the same way,with the same results,in Taiwan? Show why or why not,citing evidence to support your position.
Q4) Which of the following statements best characterizes the nature of India today?
A)India,unlike China,has rejected its cultural traditions and adopted those of the West.
B)The majority of India's population is part of a large and growing middle class.
C)India's economy is a perfect model of the modern,successful socialist state.
D)India today is a nation of contrasts,with a majority of its population living in poverty.
E)Rural and urban poverty in India is rapidly becoming the norm for the first time in Indian history.
Q5) Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Big and Little Tigers
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