World Cultures and Societies
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World Cultures and Societies offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the diverse cultural practices, social structures, belief systems, and historical developments that shape human societies across the globe. Through comparative analysis, students examine how culture influences identity, community, and global interactions, as well as the challenges brought about by cultural globalization, migration, and social change. The course encourages students to develop intercultural understanding and critical thinking skills, providing them with tools to appreciate cultural diversity and navigate the complexities of todays interconnected world.
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Chapter 1: The Peopling of the World, to 4000 BCE
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Q1) The most commonly used weapon for hunting large game at Monte Verde was the A)Axe.
B)Bow and arrow.
C)Bolo.
D)Slingshot.
E)Atlatl.
Answer: E
Q2) What do the walls around Jericho suggest about how Neolithic communities interacted with other populations?
Answer: In this essay, students should discuss the following key points:
1.If the walls of Jericho were there to protect resources from human predators, this would indicate competition for those resources.
2.The walls may indicate that communities competed with one another for resources, which may have involved warfare.
Q3) What characteristics distinguished Homo sapiens sapiens from other species?
Answer: In this essay, students should discuss the following key points:
1.Their build and the size of their brains were different
2.They were descendents of mitochondrial Eve
3.They had developed larynxes
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Chapter 2: The First Complex Societies in the Eastern
Mediterranean, ca 4000 - 550 BCE
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Q1) One of the key Assyrian methods of ruling conquered peoples was to resettle conquered enemy rulers and A)craftsmen.
B)Free the priestly class to show leniency.
C)To adopt local gods as their own.
D)Marry with conquered royal families.
E)Collected texts from conquered cities.
Answer: A
Q2) What evidence is there,from this time,that war was frequent between city-states?
A)Increasing numbers of bronze weapons.
B)More artistic depictions of battle victories.
C)Cities were protected by high walls.
D)All of these choices
E)only b.and c.
Answer: D
Q3) What type of physical geography was encountered by the first settlers of southern Mesopotamia,and how did they react to it?
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Q4) What kind of trade networks did Babylonians participate in?
Answer: In this essay,students should discuss the key points:
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Chapter 3: Ancient India and the Rise of Buddhism, 2600
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Q1) The earliest Indian farmers planted
A)Rice and wheat.
B)Potatoes and rice.
C)Wheat and barley.
D)Maize and barley.
E)Yams.
Answer: C
Q2) In the epic Ramayana,the actions of Sita emphasized
A)The cycle of death and rebirth.
B)The importance of the power of the gods in Indian mythology.
C)A woman's loyalty to her husband.
D)The power of the Brahmins.
E)The relationship between the gods and humans.
Answer: C
Q3) Describe how south Asia increased communication and trade with the rest of the world over time.
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Q4) ceremonial state?
Answer: Answer not provided
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Chapter 4: Blueprint for Empire: China, 1200
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Q1) Mandate of Heaven
Q2) Which dynasty was the first to unify China?
A)Qin.
B)Zhou.
C)Shang.
D)Wang Mang.
E)Han.
Q3) The Han dynasty had a long history of conflict with the Xiongnu.What was the final result of this conflict?
Q4) Ancestor Worship
Q5) Liu Bang
Q6) Translated,what does The Analects refer to?
A)Ancestor worship.
B)Discussions and conversations with Confucius.
C)The law of the land.
D)The early history of Shang dynasty.
E)Relations between the emperor and his subjects.
Q7) Discuss early Chinese writing from the Shang dynasty and what information such writings have contributed to ancient Chinese history.
Q8) Emperor Wu
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Q1) The major disagreement among archaeologists who study Polynesia involves
A)What the Lapita pottery was used for.
B)How isolated the Polynesian development was.
C)The interpretation and use of Lapita pottery in determining the migration routes and dates.
D)The types of boats used by the early Polynesian settlers.
E)Whether the migrations were accidental explorations or deliberate voyages.
Q2) Which of the following were the responsibilities of the Mayan ruler?
A)Commander of the army.
B)Decided crop allocations.
C)Decided with whom to ally.
D)Allocation of taxes.
E)All of these choices.
Q3) How did the Andean peoples of the Americas use metal?
A)Weapons.
B)Agricultural tools.
C)Utensils.
D)Body armor.
E)Decorations.
Q4) Teotihuacan
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Chapter 6: New Empires in Iran and Greece, 2000 BCE- 651
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Q1) oracle
Q2) Which of the following is not true of the army created by Cyrus?
A)The king's bodyguards,the Immortals,were an elite corp in the Persian army.
B)The citizen-soldier army became professional and full-time.
C)A description of the army organization was provided by Herodotus.
D)Only Persians were qualified to become military leaders.
E)The army consisted of citizen-soldiers.
Q3) Although the Persians were the most powerful empire at the time,what area were they unable to defeat?
A)Turkey.
B)Spain.
C)Greece.
D)Assyria.
E)Egypt.
Q4) Parthians
Q5) Thucydides?
Q6) Sasanians
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Q7) Although the Phoenicians are best known in history for their alphabet,discuss other aspects of the Phoenicians during their time.
Q8) Socrates
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Chapter
509 BCE- 476 Ce
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Q1) What was the central issue in the First Punic War?
A)The control of Rome by Carthage.
B)To destroy the capital of Carthage as an economic center in the Mediterranean.
C)The Roman general Scipio's desire to gain power in the republican government.
D)Rome's hope to destroy the Carthaginian navy as a threat to its mainland.
E)Rivalry for dominance over Sicily.
Q2) What led Rome to destroy the temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE?
A)Fear of the popularity of Christianity.
B)Need for more taxes from Judaea.
C)Civil war between Rome's military factions.
D)Pontius Pilate led a rebellion against Rome.
E)A Jewish uprising.
Q3) The Etruscans introduced the Romans to
A)A modified Greek alphabet.
B)Phalanx warfare.
C)Democracy.
D)Triremes.
E)Monotheism.
Q4) During the Republic,how did the Romans administer the lands they conquered? How does this compare to the Qin and Achaemenid administrations?
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Chapter
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Q1) How did trade routes help to spread Buddhism?
Q2) Discuss the reforms of the Tang Code and their goals.
Q3) The Buddhist kingdom of Funan was centered on the A)Mekong River Delta.
B)Gulf of Thailand.
C)Andaman Sea.
D)Sudra Strait.
E)Irrawaddy River.
Q4) In 838,why was the Japanese monk Ennin sent by the emperor as part of a delegation to China?
A)to learn the reason for Tang China's success.
B)to keep many Chinese customs and ideas from being known outside the area.
C)to spy on the Chinese military in advance of a Japanese invasion.
D)to learn more about Chinese Hinduism.
E)none of these choices.
Q5) Tang Code
Q6) bone-rank system
Q7) womb room
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Chapter 9: Islamic Empires of Western Asia and Africa, 600 - 1258
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Q1) Who is responsible for writing down the teaching of Muhammad into the form of the Quran?
A)His followers through Caliph Uthman.
B)Muhammad.
C)Ali.
D)Khadija.
E)Abu Bakr.
Q2) ulama
Q3) Why was Mecca an important site even before the emergence of Islam? Why did the leaders of Mecca see Muhammad as a threat?
Q4) Though a dangerous innovation,how did Abbasid caliphs attempt to increase revenue?
A)Claimed all land.
B)Offered to free all slaves for a fee.
C)Increased taxes on non-Muslims.
D)Iqta grants.
E)Increased taxes on non-Arabic speaking areas.
Q5) One does not have to be a serious student of history to have heard about the division of Islam into Sunni and Shiite.In a short essay,evaluate the many causes that led to this division.
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Chapter 10: The Multiple Centers of Europe, 500 - 1000
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Q1) How were the Germanic peoples regarded by the Romans while Rome was still intact?
A)Romans respected their religious beliefs.
B)The Germanic peoples were known for their poetry.
C)Scandinavians were the Romans' major trading partners.
D)Scandinavians were seen as equals by the Romans.
E)The Multiple Centers of Europe,500-1000
Q2) The reading,"Movement of Ideas: Ibn Fadlan's Description of a Rus Burial," is very emotional and full of unexplained symbolism.Choose three symbols and attempt to analyze their meanings.
Q3) Charlemagne
Q4) Louis the Pious
Q5) Theodora
Q6) The highest-ranking bishop in Rome was the A)Pope.
B)Patriarch.
C)Vizier.
D)Caliph.
E)Emperor.
Q7) pope
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Chapter 11: Expanding Trade Networks in Africa and India,
1000 - 1500
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Q1) The humped back of Sundiata's mother was a symbol
A)that predicted future destruction of the kingdom by Sosso.
B)of her unusual spiritual power.
C)prophesying that Sundiata would be a strong king.
D)that the gods were unhappy with the kingdom of Mali.
E)prophesying that Sundiata would overthrow the Sosso dynasty.
Q2) Iron
Q3) Camels
Q4) Dhow
Q5) Ibn Battuta's caravan stopped at Taghaza,a city on the southern Sahara known for producing A)gold.
B)salt.
C)slaves.
D)sugar.
E)coins.
Q6) Great Zimbabwe
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Q7) Trans-Saharan Caravan trade network
Q8) Bantu
Q9) Mogadishu
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Chapter 12: Chinas Commercial Revolution, ca900 - 1276
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Q1) In 1042,the Ly Dynasty used what to make the laws understandable to the people of China?
A)Mandatory literacy.
B)A modified Tang code.
C)Woodblock printing.
D)Soldiers stationed in villages to explain the law.
E)Confucian scholars from China at court to explain the law.
Q2) Relate the book publishing and educational boom to the commercial revolution.
Q3) Zen Buddhism
Q4) With the commercial revolution came Chinese entrepreneurs who invested in goods for the market.One such area is iron production;at its high point in 1078,China was the largest producer of iron in the world,only to be surpassed by England several hundred years later.Discuss the development of iron production and why,centuries later,China was overshadowed by England.
Q5) China's largest international trade port was located in A)Kaifeng.
B)Jiankang.
C)Quanzhou.
D)Hangzhou.
E)Kyoto.
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Chapter 13: Europes Commercial Revolution, 1000 - 1400
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Q1) Cluny
Q2) Feudal
Q3) How did the cerealization of Europe lead to a growth of market places?
Q4) Discuss the economic results of cerealization in 1100-1300 Europe.
Q5) Between 1160 and 1200,all of the works of ____ had been translated from Arabic to Latin.
A)Plato.
B)Herodotus.
C)Confucius.
D)Aristotle.
E)Socrates.
Q6) Aside from universities and learning centers,how were basic schools organized?
A)Math was taught.
B)Latin was a requirement.
C)Girls were sometimes taught in separate rooms.
D)Basic schools were often associated with a church.
E)All of these.
Q7) Aristotle
Q8) Secular Clergy
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Q9) What caused reform inside the established monastic orders after 1100?
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Chapter 14: The Mongols and Their Successors, 1200 - 1500
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Q1) Before the fall of the Byzantine Empire,how were the Ottomans able to organize into a power?
A)They benefited by little Mongol presence in Anatolia.
B)Osman emerged as an effective leader who conquered different area in Anatolia
C)From a base in the Dardanelles,they were able to conquer Greece and the Balkans.
D)They claimed to be loyal to the Byzantine Emperor.
E)All of these.
Q2) Timur's grandson,Ulugh Beg,had a legacy of patronizing learning and built a/n
A)New Silk Road.
B)Temple to Tengri.
C)Library for Greek texts.
D)New capital.
E)Astronomical observatory.
Q3) Although the Mongols were successful conquerors,why did they fail to create an effective empire-wide bureaucracy?
Q4) How did the principality of Rus emerge as the conqueror of the Qipchaq Khanate and become the strongest principality of the Russian states?
Q5) Tanistry
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Chapter 15: Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic World, 14001600
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Q1) Ayllu
Q2) What convinced Europeans that the torrid zone did not exist?
A)Venetian sailors,who had sailed to Arabia,had no experience with the zone.
B)European geographers,who had read Arabic sources,did not believe in the zone.
C)Columbus's voyages did not encounter torrid or frigid zones.
D)The Portuguese,who sailed past Cape Bojador in 1434,forced many to reconsider the existence of the zone.
E)Henry the Navigator's excursions into Morocco proved the zone did not exist.
Q3) Why was conquest so important to the Mexica (Aztecs)?
Q4) In 1487 Bartholomew Dias was the first European to
A)enslave Africans from West Africa.
B)establish a sugar plantation in the Canary Islands.
C)sail around the southern tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope.
D)build a caravel style ship.
E)discover that the earth was not flat.
Q5) Cape of Good Hope
Q6) Encomienda System
Q7) Columbus
Q8) Quipu
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16: Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia, 1500 - 1700
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Q1) In the market ports of India,what good was exported out of India to East Africa?
A)Slaves.
B)Timber.
C)Cotton cloth.
D)Ivory.
E)Gold.
Q2) Why did the worldwide silver economy become a problem for the Ming dynasty?
A)Foreign purchases and silver coming into the country could be unreliable.
B)Since pirating was a serious problem,the Ming tried to control seaborne commerce.
C)A consistent supply of silver coming into the country was necessary as it affected tax revenues.
D)Depending on the supply of silver,prices could reach inflationary rates.
E)All of these
Q3) Tokugawa Shogunate
Q4) Bengal
Q5) Emperor Sejong
Q6) Mughal Dynasty
Q7) How was Nur Jahan unusual among women of her time?
Q8) Slave Trade
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Chapter 17: Religion, politics, and the Balance of Power in Western
Eurasia, 1500 - 1750
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Q1) What group was used by Louis XIV to enforce his power throughout the country?
A)Nobles.
B)Military.
C)Intendants.
D)Church officials.
E)Members of the royal family.
Q2) Mercantilism
Q3) Peter the Great
Q4) Kizilbash
Q5) Peter the Great (r.1685-1725)sought to modernize Russia by orienting the empire toward
A)Western Europe.
B)Byzantine.
C)Safavids.
D)China.
E)Central Asian Steppes.
Q6) Abbas I
Q7) John Calvin
Q8) Suleyman the Magnificent Page 24
Q9) Janissaries
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Chapter
1600 - 1750
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Q1) Panama
Q2) Politically,why were the New England colonies difficult for England to control?
Q3) Which of the following was associated with the American political and economic pattern that the Spanish established by 1750?
A)Haciendas became the foundation of commercial economies.
B)All of the answers are correct.
C)Officials from Spain dominated the upper echelons of both state and church.
D)Criollos served important positions as municipal officials.
E)Subjugation of the indigenous people.
Q4) Virgin of Guadalupe
Q5) Huron
Q6) Sugar Plantations
Q7) The main motive to immigrate to New England was to
A)escape Catholic persecution.
B)pursue economic opportunities.
C)seek safe areas for Protestants.
D)escape the established Church of England.
E)escape the Black Plague.
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Q9) Criollos
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Chapter 19: The Atlantic System: Africa, the Americas, and
Europe, 1550 - 1807
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Q1) The goal of taxes imposed on the British colonies in North America after the French and Indian war was to
A)reimburse Britain for the losses in sugar profits caused by American pirates.
B)provide funds for Britain to carry on the Seven Years' War in Europe.
C)have colonies pay for some of their own protection.
D)use in exchange for colonials not serving in the British military.
E)invest in American ventures in the new West.
Q2) Fictive Kinship
Q3) African history does not have any ancient connections to A)the Red Sea.
B)Asia.
C)the Indian Ocean.
D)the Americas.
E)Europe.
Q4) According to Equiano's narrative,how did the Igbo society exemplify much of Africa?
Q5) What were the two forms of historical slavery and what were their differences?
Q6) Olaudah Equiano
Q7) Igbo
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Chapter 20: Empires in Early Modern Asia, 1650 - 1818
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Q1) Why did a dynamic cotton industrial economy not develop in China in the eighteenth century?
A)Confucianism emphasized order and not innovation.
B)commerce was regarded as a low-status occupation.
C)all of the answers are correct.
D)China had a huge population of potential workers.
E)manual labor was a cheap form of labor.
Q2) The British East India Company's presence in India,particularly Bengal,was a tremendous moment in Indian history because it challenged which great land-based empire?
A)Mughal.
B)Safavid.
C)Ottoman.
D)Ming.
E)Byzantine.
Q3) Qing Dynasty
Q4) Battle of Plassey
Q5) British East India Company
Q6) Discuss how the decline of Mughal power from 1650 to 1800 led to the British East India Company's involvement in local politics.
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Chapter 21: European Science and the Foundations of
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Q1) Which of the great Enlightenment thinkers warned that cowardice stood in the way of new ideas?
A)Hobbes.
B)Kant.
C)Smith.
D)Voltaire.
E)Cavendish.
Q2) Banks' drive to improve agriculture was
A)resisted by George III,who saw it as a waste of government money.
B)not successful in selective breeding.
C)intended to bring to agriculture the insights gained from scientific method.
D)a failure in bringing more land under cultivation.
E)not successful in increasing the productivity of existing farm lands.
Q3) Problem of Longitude
Q4) Catherine the Great reacted to the idea of enlightened monarchs by
A)freeing the serfs.
B)allowing a limited freedom of the press.
C)consolidating her power.
D)land distribution reform.
E)legislative reform.
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Chapter 22: Revolutions in the West, 1750 - 1830
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Q1) Simon Bolivar
Q2) Which of the following statements,associated with the rule of Louis XVI,is true?
A)Wars had emptied the French treasury.
B)The common people were burdened with taxes.
C)Nobles lived in luxury,at the expense of the king,and paid no taxes.
D)All of the answers are correct.
E)Upon taking the throne,Louis XVI was one of the most powerful men in the world.
Q3) American advantages during the war included A)women.
B)rural populations.
C)all of the answers are correct.
D)George Washington.
E)the French.
Q4) George Washington
Q5) Boston Tea Party
Q6) Napoleon Bonaparte
Q7) mestizos
Q8) Congress of Vienna
Q9) In which way was the Seven Years' War a cause for the American Revolution?
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Q1) What factors impacted Russian industrial activity in the nineteenth century,as other European powers advanced economically,socially,and politically?
Q2) How did Muhammad Ali,the Ottoman military leader of Egypt,finance the modernization of Egypt?
A)Seized the Suez Canal
B)Taxed all foreign goods that sailed in and out of the Red Sea
C)Encouraged the production of cotton
D)Made a military alliance with Great Britain
E)Increased taxes on the peasant class
Q3) How was Mikhail Bakunin so influential?
Q4) Mass production
Q5) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Middle- and low-income classes in England did not have the right to vote.
B)Attempts at unionization were ruled illegal by Parliament.
C)Religion was an outlet for many workers.
D)All of the answers are correct.
E)Alcoholism was an affliction for many poor.
Q6) Industrial Revolution
Q7) Tanzimat Reforms
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Chapter 24: China, japan, and India Confront the Modern
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Q1) How did the foreign incursions in China impact the peasants?
A)English agricultural technology increased production of rice.
B)Windmills,imported from England,opened fertile lands to agricultural usage.
C)Overuse of marginal land and forest areas led to a decrease in farm production.
D)The Chinese government diverted resources used in fighting foreigners to control floods.
E)Chinese farmers would not plant new plants brought in from the West.
Q2) Which of the following is related to the Indian Revolt of 1857?
A)Sepoys believed that the British were trying to convert them to Christianity.
B)All of the answers are correct.
C)As the rebellion spread,there was a call for the return of the Mughals to power.
D)The rebellion highlighted race relations in the British Raj.
E)To many British,the rebellion emphasized the theory of Social Darwinism.
Q3) Discuss the causes of the Taiping Rebellion of 1850-1864.
Q4) How do you interpret the actions of the Empress Ci Xi?
Q5) Hundred Days Reform
Q6) Extraterritoriality
Q7) Rammohun Roy
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Chapter 25: State Building and Social Change in the
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Q1) Britain's move in the direction of free trade,which eliminated duties on many North American goods reaching British markets,involved which of the following products?
A)Cotton,wheat,and fish.
B)Timber,fish,and grain.
C)Iron,copper,and timber.
D)Rice,grain,and fish.
E)Rice,wine,and corn.
Q2) Gilded Age
Q3) What new province(s)was/were added in 1905 as the result of Canada's agricultural boom?
A)Alberta.
B)Yukon.
C)British Columbia.
D)Saskatchewan.
E)Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Q4) Quebecois
Q5) Jim Crow Laws
Q6) Brazil
Q7) Great Plains
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Chapter 26: The New Imperialism in Africa and Southeast
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Q2) New Imperialism
Q3) Federation of Indochina
Q4) Yaa Asantewa
Q5) Samori Toure was defeated by the French in part because he
A)only controlled the Senegal River.
B)relied on guerrilla warfare.
C)lacked religious or cultural motivation.
D)his army lacked gunpowder weapons.
E)failed to win the support of local populations.
Q6) The ____ was/were used by the British against the Boers in the South African War.
A)deportation of women and children
B)execution of all captured Boer soldiers
C)concentration camps
D)placing of Boer civilians on the front lines
E)tanks and airplanes
Q7) Singapore
Q8) Zulu
Q9) Philippines Page 36
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Q1) According to Louise Bryant,the chapter's traveler,Lenin possessed which of the following qualities to put the Bolsheviks in a position of power
A)being a master propagandist.
B)having the ability to be a leader.
C)having absolute moral indifference.
D)all of the answers are correct.
E)possessed all the qualities of chief.
Q2) New Economic Policy
Q3) Which of the following describes Joseph Stalin under Lenin and then his rise to power after Lenin's death?
A)Absolutely loyal to Lenin.
B)All of the answers are correct.
C)Stayed in the background under Lenin while others argued about policies.
D)After Lenin died,exploited divisions with Central Committee to consolidate authority.
E)His slogan became,"Socialism in One Country"
Q4) Gallipoli
Q5) Vladimir Lenin
Q6) Fourteen Points
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Q1) What would likely happen to anyone who questioned the communist party's authority is Stalinist Russia?
A)Exiled for life.
B)Imprisoned in a gulag,the vast system of slave-labor camps
C)Allowed to join another political party.
D)Questioned by police but tolerated.
E)Fined and denied employment.
Q2) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q3) Satyagraha
Q4) What was associated with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Program?
A)Works Progress Administration.
B)Agricultural subsidies.
C)Recognition of unions.
D)All of the answers are correct.
E)Banking reforms.
Q5) Crystal Night
Q6) Government of India Act
Q7) Aryan
Q8) Igbo Women's War
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Q1) When did Total War come to the German people?
A)from the very beginning.
B)after the Battle of Britain.
C)after the Yalta Conference.
D)after the Battle of Stalingrad.
E)only in the last stages of war.
Q2) Phony War
Q3) England and France declared war on Germany when it attacked and invaded A)Denmark.
B)Poland.
C)Sweden.
D)Norway.
E)the Soviet Union.
Q4) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Q5) Mohandas Gandhi
Q6) Al Alamein
Q7) Nancy Wake
Q8) Marshall Plan
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Q2) The success of India,emerging as the largest democracy in the 1950s,was the result of which of the following?
A)the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru.
B)control of tensions with Pakistan.
C)all of the answers are correct.
D)building up of a reliable and loyal military.
E)nonalignment with either superpower.
Q3) The Hungarian Uprising of students,factory workers,and middle-class professionals in 1956
A)was settled in the United Nations.
B)was successful because European intervention and possible war forced the Soviets to back off.
C)ended in mass arrests and executions after the Soviets moved in with tanks.
D)was a success and encouraged the same actions in Poland and East Berlin.
E)forced the resignation of Premier Khrushchev.
Q4) Cold War
Q5) Suez Canal Crisis
Q6) Muslim League
Q7) Deng Xiaoping
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Q1) Although he viewed the United States as exploiting Muslim unity,Osama bin Laden allied with the United States against
A)the Soviets.
B)Saddam Hussein.
C)Ayatollah Khomeini.
D)Israel.
E)the Taliban.
Q2) The return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 from ____ was a sign of China's growing success and power.
A)France
B)Russia
C)England
D)the Netherlands
E)South Korea
Q3) Pope John Paul II
Q4) How has the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict led to more tensions between Islamists and the West?
Q5) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Q6) Shanghai
Q7) Sandinistas
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Q1) Sustainable development of energy sources such as nuclear power were increasingly questioned after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami to a nuclear power plant in ________ in 2011.
A)China.
B)Japan.
C)Russia.
D)Malaysia.
E)Australia.
Q2) World Trade Organization
Q3) Arab Spring
Q4) Despite being one of Asia's largest working democracies,protests in this country in 2011 mobilized millions against government corruption.
A)People's Republic of China.
B)India.
C)Vietnam.
D)Myanmar.
E)North Korea.
Q5) European Union
Q6) How have the economic crises of 2008 revealed the problems of globalization?
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