World Civilizations since 1500 Final Exam Questions
Course Introduction
This course examines the development and interactions of world civilizations from 1500 to the present, focusing on major political, economic, social, and cultural transformations. Students will explore themes such as empire-building, global trade networks, revolution, colonialism, industrialization, and the rise of modern nation-states. The course analyzes how diverse societies responded to global challenges and how encounters among civilizations through conflict, cooperation, and exchange shaped contemporary global realities. Through a comparative framework, students gain a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of human history and the forces that continue to shape our world.
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Traditions and Encounters A Brief Global History 4th Edition by Jerry Bentley
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Chapter 1: The Foundations of Complex Societies
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Q1) Çatal Hüyük was a village in south central Anatolia with a population of around five thousand.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The first complex society was developed in the southern Mesopotamian land of
A)Akkad.
B)Assyria.
C)Sumer.
D)Babylonia.
E)Palestine.
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a Semitic language?
A)Hebrew
B)Phoenician
C)Aramaic
D)Sumerian
E)Akkadian
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: 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) Which of the following societies began the custom of embalming to preserve the body for its life after death?
A)Egypt
B)Mesopotamia
C)India
D)China
E)Persia
Answer: A
Q3) Osiris was the Egyptian god of the underworld.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Early Societies in South and East Asia
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Q1) Much of early Harappan history remains a mystery because
A)the archaeological remains are below the existing water table.
B)the Harappans lacked a written language.
C)Harappan records were destroyed in a Mesopotamian invasion.
D)the Aryans undertook a systematic destruction of Harappan written records.
E)the archaeological remains are below the existing water table,and the Harappans lacked a written language.
Answer: A
Q2) Mohenjo-daro was
A)the mother goddess of the earliest Indian society.
B)an important early thinker in the rise of Hinduism.
C)one of the two main cities of the Harappan society.
D)a collection of early Indian religious texts.
E)the combination of two Indian sun gods.
Answer: C
Q3) Severing all ties with the physical world and identifying oneself with the ultimate reality of the world spirit is moksha.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) The most flexible and sophisticated system of writing found in the ancient Americas was created by the A)Olmecs.
B)Maya.
C)Teotihuacan society.
D)Chavín cult.
E)Incas.
Q2) Discuss the richness and complexity of Maya culture,centering on their accomplishments in writing,astronomy,and math.
Q3) The Olmec ceremonial centers of San Lorenzo and La Venta were destroyed by A)earthquakes.
B)the Maya.
C)the Teotihuacan.
D)the Olmecs themselves.
E)volcanic eruptions that trapped the survivors and left distinctive archaeological records.
Q4) Read the section drawn from the Popol Vuh .Compare this creation story to others studied in the class.Why did the gods create humans in the first place? Why would it make sense for humans to be made of maize?
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Chapter 5: The Empires of Persia
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Q1) What was a satrapy? How did satrapies help the Achaemenids rule their empire?
Q2) The words "good words,good thoughts,good deeds" were used to sum up the view of morality of the A)Jews.
B)Zoroastrians.
C)Hindus.
D)Buddhists.
E)Greeks.
Q3) Discuss the basic tenets of Zoroastrianism.What role did Zarathustra play in the rise of this religion? How influential was Zoroastrianism on later religions?
Q4) The magnificent capital of the Persian empire constructed by Darius was A)Byzantium.
B)Pasargadae.
C)Marathon.
D)Susa.
E)Persepolis.
Q5) Examine the development of the Seleucid,Parthian,and Sasanid empires.In what ways were they a continuation of the Achaemenid tradition? In what ways were they different?
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Chapter 6: The Unification of China
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Q1) Discuss the significance of social order in Chinese thought.What part does family life play in the Chinese concept of social order?
Q2) How did the educational system develop in China during this period?
Q3) The Han philosophy of rule was
A)the high point of Legalism.
B)dependent on the constant and unrelenting use of terror.
C)dependent on the social and political activism of Daoist ministers of state.
D)a continuation of Qin policies of centralization.
E)copied from Mauryan India.
Q4) How does Daoism contrast with Confucianism?
Q5) Examine the philosophical school known as Daoism.Who were the founding thinkers of this philosophy? What are the basic tenets of this thought? What would be the political consequences of being a Daoist?
Q6) The Book of Lord Shang is a work that helped develop the doctrine of A)Legalism.
B)Confucianism.
C)Daoism.
D)Buddhism.
E)Zoroastrianism.
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Chapter 7: State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
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Q1) Examine the carving of the boddhisatva Avalokitesvara on page 130.What is the theory behind the boddhisatva? Can you think of any similar religious concepts?
Q2) Discuss the formation and beliefs of Jainism.What factors explain why it never became as successful as Hinduism or Buddhism?
Q3) The capital of Ashoka's empire was A)Delhi.
B)Bodh Gaya.
C)Pataliputra.
D)Mahavira.
E)Banaras.
Q4) In the Bhagavad Gita,Arjuna says,"As a man,casting off old clothes,puts on others and new ones,so the embodied self,casting off old bodies,goes to others and new ones." What did he mean? How does this comment express the basic ideals of Hinduism?
Q5) In what ways did outsiders influence India during this period? In turn,how did India influence the rest of the world and especially Asia?
Q6) How did early Buddhism evolve into Mahayana Buddhism? How did that help spread the religion?
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Chapter 8: Mediterranean Society Under the Greeks and the Romans
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Q1) Examine the constantly changing religious world of the Romans.Explain the Roman role in the rise of Christianity.
Q2) How did trade shape the Roman world? Discuss the implications of the Mediterranean as mare nostrum.How did trade work to bring the Roman world together?
Q3) The Iliad is attributed to A)Socrates.
B)Plato.
C)Xeno.
D)Herodotus.
E)Homer.
Q4) Julius Caesar was the leader who reunified the Roman world and began the pax romana.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Look at the picture of the Pantheon on page 155.What can this picture tell us about the importance of religion to the Romans? What does it say about Roman architectural skills?
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Q6) Discuss the Greek Olympic Games.What can these games tell us about the nature of the Greeks?
Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads
During the Late Classical ERA
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Q1) Constantine built a new capital for the Roman empire in the east.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A key element in establishing trade across the Indian Ocean was the
A)defeat of the Xiongnu.
B)defeat of the Indian pirates who controlled the region.
C)signing of an alliance with the leading Sri Lankan prince.
D)mastering of the monsoon system.
E)discovery of "Greek fire."
Q3) The Council of Nicaea and the Council of Chalcedon
A)established the boundary line between the eastern and western Roman empires.
B)accepted the Nestorian view of the solely divine nature of Jesus.
C)settled a bloody civil war and reunited Rome.
D)decided that Jesus possessed both human and divine natures.
E)adopted certain features of the Manichaean faith.
Q4) Examine the collapse of the Roman empire.What factors explain this event? What would be the legacy of the Roman empire?
Q5) Discuss the spread of epidemic diseases along the trade routes.Examine the consequences of these diseases in the Han and Roman empires.
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Chapter 10: The Christian Commonwealth of Byzantium
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Q1) In the year 962,Otto of Saxony
A)accepted the sovereignty of the Byzantine emperors.
B)created a written alphabet for the Slavic people.
C)expanded the scope of Byzantine influence by translating Justinian's code into German.
D)claimed to rule as emperor of the old western half of the Roman empire.
E)invaded and sacked Constantinople.
Q2) A direct challenge to the Byzantine emperor arose in the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown to the Frankish king,
A)Otto of Saxony.
B)Charlemagne.
C)Basil II.
D)Cyril.
E)Hugh Capet.
Q3) The Corpus iuris civilis was Justinian's definitive codification of Roman law.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Basil II began iconoclasm.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Expansive Realm of Islam
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Q1) How did the growth of the realm of Islam contribute to agricultural,industrial,and urban development?
Q2) Islamic banks honored letters of credit,drawn on the parent bank,known as A)sakk.
B)qadis. C)ka'ba.
D)sufis.
E)sunnis.
Q3) The Islamic holy law is known as the A)umma. B)sharia. C)ulama.
D)qadis. E)hijra.
Q4) In 595,Muhammad married a wealthy widow named A)Ibn Rushd. B)Khadija.
C)Sufi. D)Sharia. E)Hadith.
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Chapter 12: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
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Q1) Built during the Sui dynasty,the Grand Canal facilitated trade between northern and southern China.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During the Tang dynasty,the imperial civil service examinations
A)declined dramatically in importance.
B)were used extensively,filling posts with officials of genuine intellectual ability.
C)were halted and not restarted until the Ming dynasty.
D)were restricted to the wealthier families.
E)were monopolized by the foreign Manchus and used for their advantage.
Q3) Chinese influence on Japan was most profound during the A)Kamakura shogunate.
B)Heian period.
C)Nara period.
D)Muromachi shogunate.
E)Tang shogunate.
Q4) What agricultural developments helped to transform the Chinese economy?
Q5) Describe the growth of Buddhism in China.What effect did the invention of reusable,moveable type have on religion in China?
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Chapter 13: India and the Indian Ocean Basin
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Q1) Examine the small Hindu kingdoms of southern India that arose after the collapse of the Guptas.How did these states resist the spread of Islam? How successful were they in their other endeavors?
Q2) Compare and contrast the political and religious structures of the Indianized kingdoms in southeast Asia.
Q3) During the postclassical age,the caste system
A)disappeared because of the arrival of Islam.
B)created chaos in local communities.
C)became securely established in southern India for the first time.
D)rejected migrants coming into India.
E)was merged into modern Buddhist thought.
Q4) To what extent did Indian culture penetrate southeast Asia before the arrival of Muslim traders in the eighth century?
Q5) When and how did Islam enter northern India?
Q6) Examine the invasions of Mahmud of Ghazni and the later establishment of the Delhi sultanate.When did Islam first arrive in India? How successful were Mahmud and the Delhi sultans in winning converts? How did religion affect the power of the Delhi sultans?
Q7) What were some of the significant trade goods produced in southern India?
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Chapter 14: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
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Q1) Through what means did the Mongols integrate Eurasian cultures? List and explain at least five ways they did this.
Q2) Nomadic people did not wander aimlessly through the steppes;rather,they followed migratory cycles.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The late-fourteenth-century Turkish ruler who weakened the Golden Horde,sacked Delhi,and launched campaigns in southwest Asia and Anatolia was
A)Chinggis Khan.
B)Osman.
C)Khubilai Khan.
D)Tamerlane.
E)Chaghatai.
Q4) How dependent were the nomadic societies on their animals? How is this dependence different from today? How did this dependence influence the development of the nomadic societies?
Q5) Examine the reign of Khubilai Khan.How was he different from his grandfather,Chinggis Khan? What was Khubilai Khan's legacy?
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Chapter 15: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) The arrival of camels slowed the pace of communication and transportation across the Sahara.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the function of the griot in sub-Saharan African culture?
Q3) Griots were
A)the legendary kings of Mali.
B)aqueducts that were essential for life in the oasis towns of the Sahara.
C)singers and storytellers.
D)Swahili slave traders.
E)tribal shamans.
Q4) Ibn Battuta proposed that Mogadishu "is a town of enormous size." Why were the Swahili city-states so wealthy and powerful? What eventually happened to them?
Q5) What role did the rise and development of slavery play in sub-Saharan Africa?
Q6) How did Christianity and Islam supplement native African religions in this period?
Q7) Compare and contrast the role of women in sub-Saharan Africa to their role in some of the other societies studied in the course.Did the growing influence of Islam affect the status of women?
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Chapter 16: Christian Western Europe During the Middle Ages
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Q1) Jerusalem was captured in 1187 by
A)Richard the Lionheart.
B)Saladin.
C)Frederick Barbarossa.
D)Peter the Hermit.
E)Abu al-Abbas.
Q2) Look at Map 16.3,The medieval expansion of Europe,1000-1250C.E.What is the significance of the crusades? How do these movements help explain the transformation of Europe during the high middle ages?
Q3) How was Europe influenced by economic expansion and increased trade during the high middle ages? Why was long-distance trade so important?
Q4) The collapse of the Roman empire and invasions by migratory peoples wrecked European society and their economy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did the role of women change during the high middle ages? Relate the role of women to the rise of new cities and guilds.
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Q6) Where were the centers of the trade networks for Europe? Why those locations?
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Chapter 17: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) Rulers among the Mexica were chosen by
A)trials of combat.
B)matrilineal descent.
C)a council made up of the most successful warriors.
D)land ownership.
E)patriarchal descent.
Q2) 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.
Q3) An extensive road system enabled the central government at Cuzco to communicate with all parts of the Inca empire.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare the social,political,and religious worlds of the Americas and Oceania.In what ways were they similar? In what ways were they different?
Q5) Describe the respective role of priests and peasants in Inca society.
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Chapter 18: Cross-Cultural Interactions
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Q1) What were the Portuguese objectives in the exploration of the coast of west Africa? What did they accomplish?
Q2) Ibn Battuta was
A)a Moroccan legal scholar who traveled extensively and recorded his observations. B)the sultan of Delhi.
C)the leader of the central Asian kingdom that dominated all trade along the silk roads. D)Marco Polo's traveling companion.
E)the leading Islamic scholar whose work reintroduced Aristotle to Europe.
Q3) Identify the most significant land and sea routes in the fourteenth century.What societies tended to control and profit from these routes?
Q4) Examine the Renaissance.What were its foundations? In what ways was it different from earlier European thought?
Q5) The best-known long-distance traveler of Mongol times was the Venetian Marco Polo.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What were the social and economic outcomes of the plague?
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Chapter 19: Transoceanic Encounters and Global
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Q1) In the end,Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because
A)it was a small country with a small population.
B)a Chinese resurgence of naval exploration forced the Portuguese out.
C)a late outbreak of the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century killed half the country's population.
D)the English,French,and Dutch formed a lasting alliance designed to force the Portuguese to surrender.
E)the Portuguese tired of the expenses of naval exploration and focused on their European land empire.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Explore the differing approaches to exploration,trade,and colonization of the western European nations.What might explain these differences? How would these different approaches influence the areas being explored and colonized?
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Chapter 20: The Transformation of Europe
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Q1) The most important achievement of Émilie du Châtelet was
A)her discovery of the principles of blood circulation in the human body.
B)her translation of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
C)the development of a law of inertia.
D)a model that undermined the Ptolemaic view of the universe.
E)demonstrating the transfer of disease through bacteria.
Q2) Examine the centralizing efforts in countries like France,Spain,and England.How and in what ways were they successful? Why was the Holy Roman Empire not as successful as other European states in centralizing power?
Q3) The Society of Jesus-the Jesuits-received instruction in theology,philosophy,and the classics,and became effective missionaries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The author of the Institutes of the Christian Religion was A)Calvin.
B)Luther.
C)Zwingli.
D)Henry VIII.
E)Paul III.
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Chapter 21: New Worlds: the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) The first plentiful labor force for North America was
A)indentured servants.
B)peninsulares from South America.
C)African slaves.
D)métis purchased from Canada.
E)native Americans who worked as part of a complicated barter system.
Q2) The first recorded European sighting of Australia was made by the A)Portuguese.
B)Dutch.
C)English.
D)French.
E)Spanish.
Q3) For the Spanish,the greatest attraction of the Americas was A)precious metals.
B)tobacco.
C)the new class of trading partners to buy Spanish manufactured goods. D)sugar.
E)slaves.
Q4) What kinds of communities were established in the New World colonies of Portugal and Spain? How were they organized? How were they governed?
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Chapter 22: Africa and the Atlantic World
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Q1) In what ways did Islam adapt to the customs and traditions of sub-Saharan Africa? Consider Songhay as an example.Where had strict Islam taken root by the end of the seventeenth century?
Q2) In an effort to drive the Portuguese out of Ndongo,Queen Nzinga formed an alliance with the A)Kongolese.
B)kingdom of Axum.
C)kingdom of Zimbabwe.
D)Dutch.
E)kingdom of Mali.
Q3) In 1505 a massive Portuguese naval expedition subdued all the Swahili cities from Sofala to Mombasa.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Examine the changing nature of African political development in Songhay,the Swahili city-states,and the kingdom of Kongo.Who were the main leaders? What were the most important turning points?
Q5) Compare the decline of Songhay with the decline of the Swahili city-states of east Africa.
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Chapter 23: Tradition and Change in East Asia
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Q1) Within the Chinese family,Confucian principles subjected women to the authority of men.
A)True B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) The Dream of the Red Chamber shed light on the lives and dynamics of which of the following?
A)scholar-gentry
B)peasants
C)artisans
D)scholar-bureaucrats
E)soldiers
Q4) What factors led to the economic and population growth of Japan under the Tokugawa shoguns?
Q5) How did the Tokugawa shogunate come to power in the sixteenth century in Japan? What steps did the shoguns take to control the daimyo?
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Chapter 24: The Islamic Empires
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Q1) Süleyman the Magnificent in 1529 inflicted a brief and terrifying siege on the Habsburgs' prized city of A)Vienna.
B)Mohács.
C)Belgrade.
D)Chaldiran.
E)Otranto.
Q2) The founder of the Ottoman dynasty was A)Süleyman the Magnificent.
B)Osman Bey.
C)Selim the Grim.
D)Mehmed II.
E)Shah Ismail.
Q3) The Islamic leader who converted to Twelver Shiism was A)Zahir al-Din Muhammad.
B)Akbar.
C)Selim the Grim.
D)Shah Ismail.
E)Shah Abbas.
Q4) Compare Akbar's policies with those of Aurangzeb.
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Chapter 25: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
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Q1) What factors led the western powers to abolish the slave trade and then slavery in the nineteenth century?
Q2) One of the most influential concepts of modern political thought is the idea of the nation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Among the leading proponents of conservatism in the eighteenth century was
A)Giuseppe Mazzini.
B)John Stuart Mill.
C)Edmund Burke.
D)Simón Bolívar.
E)Maximilien Robespierre.
Q4) Conventional wisdom holds that Napoleon ended the revolution when he proclaimed himself emperor in 1804.In what ways did he continue the ideals of the revolution? In what ways did he reverse the revolution?
Q5) Napoleon Bonaparte was a brilliant military leader who became a general at age twenty-four.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 26: The Making of Industrial Society
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Q1) Examine the spread of industrialization beyond the borders of Great Britain.Did trade and transportation play a different role than in the past? How did the movement change? Did industrialization influence every country the same way? Why did some nations in Latin America,sub-Saharan Africa,and Asia get left behind in the industrial race?
Q2) In what ways were families transformed by the process of industrialization? Why would the family structure have been stronger before the industrial revolution? How was the home transformed? How did the roles of women and children change in the industrial movement?
Q3) Examine the transition from the more traditional putting-out system to the rise of the factory system.How did each invention lead to other innovations? What would be the economic and social implications of this change? What were the conditions like in these new factories? How different would the worker's life be from that of his ancestors?
Q4) How could the demands and reality of industrialization influence factors such as nationalism or colonization?
Q5) Eli Whitney is known for inventions such as interchangeable parts.In what ways did industrialization turn workers into interchangeable parts?
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Chapter 27: The Americas in the Age of Independence
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Q1) Look maps 27.1 and 27.2 (Westward expansion of the United States during the nineteenth century,and The Dominion of Canada in the nineteenth century).Compare and contrast the expansion of the United States and Canada.What were the important sectional differences? How would it be possible for these huge,complex countries to create a sense of unity? Consider their relationship with each other.
Q2) The term "manifest destiny" is associated with what country?
A)United States
B)Great Britain
C)Japan
D)Germany
E)Russia
Q3) In 1803,the United States doubled in size,after the Louisiana territory was purchased from
A)Mexico.
B)Spain.
C)Canada.
D)Great Britain.
E)France.
Q4) What have been the central ethnic conflicts in Canadian history?
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Chapter 28: The Building of Global Empires
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Q1) The Berlin West Africa Conference,which included delegates from twelve European states and the United States,devised the ground rules for the colonization of Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The underlying principle of indirect rule was the desire to keep African populations in check and permit European administrators to engage in a "civilizing mission."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Where did the Japanese direct their ambitions as a new imperial power? How successful were they?
Q4) How did the British establish control over India in the early nineteenth century? How did the Sepoy Rebellion contribute to this process?
Q5) Summarize some of the significant migrations of the late nineteenth century.What were the typical destinations?
Q6) How did subject peoples resist colonial rule? How did imperialism foster conflicts within colonial societies?
Q7) Compare the British conquest of south Africa with that of Egypt and Sudan.
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Q1) Examine the concept of "total war." How was World War I different from earlier wars? How important was the home front?
Q2) Discuss the factors that led to the outbreak of World War I.What role did the alliance system play in this process? What role did nationalism and imperialism play in the road to World War I?
Q3) Examine the role that the United States played in World War I.Why did the United States enter the war in the first place? How was the United States affected by the war? How did the United States shape the end of the war?
Q4) Examine the causes of the Russian revolution.How was it tied to World War I? What were Lenin's main ideas? How did he transform Russia and the world?
Q5) Which of the following was NOT an important area of competition and conflict between England and Germany in the years leading up to World War I?
A)religious differences
B)the naval race
C)colonial disputes
D)industrial and trade rivalry
E)nationalistic tensions
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Chapter 30: An Age of Anxiety
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Q1) What did John Maynard Keynes recommend as a solution to the economic crisis? How did the New Deal of President Roosevelt exemplify this solution?
Q2) Compare and contrast the ideas and regimes of Stalin and Hitler.Despite tremendous differences in political orientation,how similar were the German and Soviet states? In what ways were Stalin and Hitler a product of their times?
Q3) The First Five-Year Plan was
A)a military scheme that called for a massive increase in arms production. B)designed to transform the Soviet Union from an agricultural nation into an industrial one.
C)designed to increase the agricultural production of the Soviet Union and make it the world's leading food producer.
D)a communist plan to embrace capitalism in order to promote economic growth.
E)a political plan to spark a communist revolution in the United States.
Q4) What are the defining characteristics of fascism in both Italy and Germany? Consider the organizational structure and symbols that each adopted.To whom did this message appeal?
Q5) Examine the political movement known as fascism.What were its main tenets? Compare fascism to democracy and communism.
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Chapter 31: Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
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Q1) U.S.policies toward Latin America included
A)the New Deal.
B)"dollar diplomacy."
C)the Good Neighbor Policy.
D)the Latin American Assistance Plan.
E)"dollar diplomacy" and the Good Neighbor Policy.
Q2) After World War I,colonial powers
A)let go of their colonial holdings.
B)gave the colonials the right to vote.
C)shut down exportation.
D)sought to make their colonies dependent on the European economy.
E)granted independence for those colonies that had served during the war.
Q3) During the twenty-five years he spent in South Africa,Gandhi embraced a moral philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence and developed the technique of passive resistance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Examine the struggle for political stability in China in the 1920s and 1930s.What role did Sun Yatsen play in this process? Compare and contrast the political philosophies of Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong.
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Chapter 32: New Conflagrations: World War II
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Q1) Compare the occupation policies of Germany and Japan during the war.
Q2) Although many tried,women were not allowed to join the military services or work on factory assembly lines during World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How did the war affect civilian populations,families,and women on the home front?
Q4) In the Battle of Britain,the Germans hoped to defeat the English
A)through a massive naval invasion of Scotland.
B)through their secret alliance with the Irish.
C)almost solely through air attacks led by the Luftwaffe.
D)through simultaneous attacks launched from Norway and France.
E)using their vast advantage in submarine warfare.
Q5) At the Wannsee Conference,Nazi bureaucrats decided to evacuate all Jews in Europe to work and extermination camps.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why didn't Britain and France object when Hitler and Mussolini violated the peace treaty? What were the consequences of their policy of appeasement?
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Chapter 33: The Cold War and Decolonization
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Q1) The German Democratic Republic
A)was formed out of the British,French,and American zones of occupation.
B)was sealed off from its eastern half by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
C)prospered under American leadership.
D)was really under direct Chinese control.
E)was formed out of the Soviet zone of occupation.
Q2) The Korean War resulted in
A)an overwhelming victory for U.S.-backed South Korea.
B)an overwhelming victory for Soviet-backed North Korea.
C)the second use of nuclear weapons.
D)an encouragement of the globalization of the U.S.policy of containment.
E)such a terrible loss of life that the Soviets and Americans were forced to reconcile their differences.
Q3) The disastrous Great Leap Forward was backed by
A)Deng Xiaoping.
B)Kwame Nkrumah.
C)Jomo Kenyatta.
D)Yasser Arafat.
E)Mao Zedong.
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Chapter 34: A World Without Borders
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Q1) Medical experts first identified AIDS in 1981 among members of which group(s)?
A)intravenous drug users
B)homosexual men
C)sub-Saharan African families
D)both intravenous drug users and homosexual men
E)heterosexual women
Q2) What threat does terrorism pose to the world,and what are some of the possible implications of the "war on terror"?
Q3) Discuss the exploding economies of Asia in the last quarter of the twentieth century.Why was Japan so successful? Examine the rise of the "four little tigers."
Q4) How have the mass migrations of people shaped the world today? How are these migrations helping to break down boundaries? What are the dangers?
Q5) Critics sometimes refer to the homogenizing aspect of global culture as the "McDonaldization" of the world.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What events led to the invasion of Afghanistan by the United States and the Northern Alliance in 2001?
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