World Cultures
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Course Introduction
World Cultures is an interdisciplinary course that explores the diverse social, historical, religious, and artistic traditions of global societies. Through comparative analysis, students examine how cultural beliefs, practices, and values shape individual experiences and collective identities. The course surveys regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, highlighting both the unique characteristics and shared aspects of different civilizations. Emphasis is placed on understanding cultural differences, fostering global awareness, and developing critical thinking skills needed to navigate an interconnected world.
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The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History 6th Edition by Richard Bulliet
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Chapter 1: Nature, Humanity, and History
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Q1) The ability to walk upright on two legs, characteristic of hominids, is called
A) upright pedalism.
B) dipedalism.
C) biapendigism.
D) bipedalism.
E) twin pedalism.
Answer: D
Q2) Most early agricultural communities had a staple crop based on A) grain or rice.
B) sheep and goats.
C) pumpkins, squash, or gourds.
D) oranges and mushrooms.
E) berries and nuts.
Answer: A
Q3) Homo habilis
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) culture
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q5) Homo erectus
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 2: The First River-Valley Civilizations
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Q1) Advances in mathematics and careful observations of nature made the Mesopotamians sophisticated practitioners of:
A) biology.
B) geology.
C) astronomy.
D) meteorology.
E) none of these.
Answer: C
Q2) Who was the Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750B.C.E.) best known for a code of laws inscribed on a black stone pillar illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases?
A) Enkidu
B) Sargon
C) Hammurabi
D) Gilgamesh
E) Uruk
Answer: C
Q3) One of the chief attributes of a civilization is
Answer: cities as administrative centers.
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Chapter 3: The Mediterranean and Middle East
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Q1) Solomon began an ambitious building project to create
A) the walled city of Jerusalem.
B) the Library of Alexandria.
C) the Wailing Wall.
D) the First Temple.
E) aqueducts and irrigation canals.
Answer: D
Q2) The epic poem of Homer, The Iliad, related the story of a war between the Greeks and the Hittites, based on the ten year siege and eventual destruction of the city of:
A) Athens
B) Lydia
C) Hattusha
D) Çatal Hüyük
E) Troy
Answer: E
Q3) Who was the longest-ruling "builder" king of the New Dynasty in Egypt?
Answer: Ramesses II.
Q4) Which group were the first to learn iron making?
Answer: Hittites
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Chapter 4: New Civilizations Outside the West Asian Core Area
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Q1) Confucius most admired which political figure for maintaining harmony in his rule and being a dutiful servant of the state?
A) King Wu
B) King Wen
C) Prince Cheng
D) Duke Zhou
E) Duke Dao
Q2) The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1766-1045 B.C.E.) were the
A) Shang
B) Zhou
C) Sythians
D) Daoists
E) Magyars
Q3) If you were a Roman traveler, how would you describe Celtic society and explain the Celts' lack of state building?
Q4) yin/yang
Q5) Definitive history began with what period of Chinese rule?
Q6) Scythians
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Chapter 5: Greece and Iran
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Q1) Which of the following is not a tenet of Zoroastrianism?
A) Belief in one supreme deity
B) Belief that humans would be rewarded or punished in the afterlife for their deeds
C) Belief that the world was created by Ahuramazda
D) The triumph of good over evil
E) Belief in reincarnation of the dead
Q2) Describe the relationship between the hoplite and agriculture.
Q3) Explain Greek intellectual currents using the life of Socrates as an example.
Q4) Who would not have traveled with the emperor's entourage in Persia?
A) sons of noblemen
B) administrators.
C) slaves
D) magi
E) royal bodyguards
Q5) Using Map (in the textbook) 5.1, explain how the geography of Iran left it relatively isolated from the more western settlements of Mesopotamia and Assyria. Explain why the lack of cities contributed to this isolation.
Q6) Pericles
Q7) Hellenistic Age
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Chapter 6: An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China
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Q1) Third-Century Crisis
Q2) Under the Principate, Roman law
A) was limited to the Twelve Tables.
B) came largely from the emperor himself.
C) was based on the Twelve Tables and supplemented by decrees from the Senate and bills from the Assemblies.
D) was codified by public vote.
E) were gathered from local traditions and evaluated by jurists to compile the lex romana.
Q3) Who were among the earliest converts to Christianity?
A) women
B) the poor
C) slaves
D) Jews
E) all of these
Q4) Sima Qian was the Chief astrologer for the Han dynasty Emperor Wu and he...
Q5) Shi Huangdi
Q6) Christian
Q7) Explain the expansion of Christianity at the same time that Rome was in decline. Are these factors related?
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Chapter 7: India and Southeast Asia
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Q1) What was the greatest advantage of the Gupta Empire army?
A) trebuchets.
B) a well armed cavalry
C) an elaborate spy network
D) gunpowder from the Xiongnu
E) the imperial road system
Q2) Siddhartha Gautama articulated the "Four Noble Truths," which taught that life is suffering, that suffering is caused by desire, that the solution to suffering is curbing one's desires, and that:
A) desire can be curbed by following the Eightfold Path.
B) life is mystical and ephemeral.
C) the meaning of life can be understood by worshiping a plethora of gods and deities.
D) humanity is sinful by nature.
E) the worship of God is the highest calling of man.
Q3) Brahmin
Q4) The chapter opener takes an excerpt from the Bhagavad-Gita. How is the story of Arjuna and Krishna a perfect metaphor for understanding the meaning of God in Hinduism as well as the importance of karma and reincarnation?
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Chapter 8: Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas
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Q1) ayllu
Q2) The Anasazi lived in these structures, as pictured in the textbook.
A) kivas.
B) pueblos.
C) mound houses.
D) cliff dwellings.
E) yurts.
Q3) Religion in Teotihaucan was:
A) polytheistic
B) monotheistic
C) Christian
D) Secular
E) Atheist
Q4) What caused the collapse of Teotihuacan ca. 650 C.E.?
A) Lack of fortification left them open to conquest by the Spanish.
B) Volcanic activity
C) Rival cities in competition for resources
D) Governmental corruption
E) It is unclear what forces brought about the collapse.
Q5) Olmec
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Chapter 9: Networks of Communication and Exchange
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Q1) The earliest long-distance traders in the Sogdiana area were the
A) Ferghanese.
B) Chinese.
C) Mongolians.
D) Mamluks.
E) Armenians.
Q2) Family life in the Indian Ocean coastal areas was considered more cosmopolitan because
A) it was wealthier.
B) blended families were bicultural and bilingual.
C) they were monotheistic.
D) they were not economically tied to agriculture.
E) women were allowed to hold political offices.
Q3) What natural resource provided the incentive to trade for southern Saharan dwellers?
A) Caffeine
B) Palm oil
C) Cotton
D) Salt
E) Figs
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Chapter 10: The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam
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Q1) mamluks
Q2) Most subjects of both Byzantine and Sasanid rulers found common identity in A) language.
B) religion.
C) commerce.
D) occupations.
E) family kin groups.
Q3) What were the major reasons for the decline of both the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates? What role did the umma play in this?
Q4) The establishment of Zoroastrianism and Christianity as official faiths in the Sasanid and Byzantine empires (respectively) set the precedent for what future event?
A) The rise of Islam as the focus of a political empire.
B) The dominance of monotheism in all subsequent empires.
C) The rejection of religion as an official political focus.
D) The rise of corrupt leadership in those empires.
E) The worldwide spread of Christianity.
Q5) Muslim
Q6) Ghana
Q7) Shi'ites
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Chapter 11: Christian Societies Emerge in Europe
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Q1) Describe the process by which Vladimir I chose Orthodox Christianity for Kievan Russia.
Q2) The reform monastic movement started in France was centered at A) Cluny
B) Clarveaux
C) Aquitaine
D) Paris
E) Aix-la-Chappell.
Q3) In Kievan Russia, the manorial agricultural system of western Europe never developed, instead power derived from A) landholding.
B) warfare.
C) religion.
D) trade.
E) mining.
Q4) Using Map (in the textbook) 11.4, explain the differences in Crusading routes and tactics between the early and later Crusades.
Q5) Holy Roman Empire
Q6) monasticism
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Chapter 12: Inner and East Asia
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Q1) Gunpowder was first used to propel clusters of flaming arrows by the Chinese against whom?
A) Mongols
B) Xiongnu
C) Uighers
D) Jurchens
E) Liao
Q2) Describe how the Tang Empire blended Chinese and Turkish elements to create what the chapter calls a "cosmopolitan world."
Q3) After the decline of the Tang Empire, the states that emerged were
A) Qin, Han, and Yuan.
B) Mongolia, Manchuria, and Koryo.
C) Tanggut, Song, and Liao.
D) Jurchen, Manchuria, and Siberia.
E) Turkmenistan, Guanjo, and Siam.
Q4) Tang Empire
Q5) How did the empires of the Liao, Jin, and Tanggut in northern and Central Asia differ from Song China?
Q6) Fujiwara
Q7) What was the tributary system?
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Chapter 13: Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath
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Q1) In 1453, the Ottomans led by Sultan Mehmet II captured which important Christian city of the Byzantine Empire?
A) Kiev
B) Vienna
C) Paris
D) Budapest
E) Constantinople
Q2) Mongol families often included believers in two or more religions, however, virtually all Mongols observed the practices of:
A) Islam.
B) Shamanism.
C) Orthodox Christianity
D) Atheism.
E) Buddhism.
Q3) Tax farming in the il-Khan state was
A) the payment of taxes solely by farmers.
B) the sale of tax-collecting contracts to small corporations.
C) the exemption granted to farmers from taxation.
D) the growth of a new cash crop.
E) the raising of crops on government land to pay for government expenses.
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Chapter 14: Latin Europe
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Q1) reconquest of Iberia
Q2) humanists (Renaissance)
Q3) What percentage of the western European population was rural during the late Middle Ages?
A) 70%
B) 75%
C) 80%
D) 90%
E) 100%
Q4) Credit for "the lost art of painting" being revived is traditionally given to:
A) Giotto
B) Van Eyck
C) Da Vinci
D) Botticelli
E) Rembrandt
Q5) Approximately what percentage of the western European population died in the Black Death?
Q6) The Great Western Schism was a manifestation of changing relations between the Latin Church and the monarchies of western Europe. Explain what brought about the schism and how it represented nationalistic urges.
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Chapter 15: Southern Empires, Southern Seas
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Q1) Mali
Q2) What was unique about Gujarat trade compared to African and Arabic?
A) Gujarat manufactured goods for trade
B) Gujarat required non-Hindu traders to pay a special tariff
C) Gujarat was significantly inland
D) Gujarat had artisanal guilds that dictated trade standards
E) Gujarat refused trade with the European states
Q3) Rather than political authorities, the different regional networks of the Indian Ocean trade were tied together by
A) commercial interests.
B) political authority.
C) religious authority.
D) a common language.
E) the threat of Chinese intrusion.
Q4) Sultan Iltutmish passed his empire to Raziya, his
A) daughter.
B) eldest son.
C) youngest son.
D) adviser.
E) regent.
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Chapter 16: The Maritime Revolution
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Q1) Zheng He
Q2) Bartolomeu Dias
Q3) Describe the Portuguese explorations in the Indian Ocean. How would you characterize the receptivity of the indigenous peoples and empires?
Q4) The powerful West African kingdom of Benin limited its contacts with the Portuguese by
A) refusing to accept Catholicism.
B) declining offers to receive missionaries.
C) closing the market in male slaves.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) Two important navigational technologies, the magnetic compass and the astrolabe, A) were invented by Henry the Navigator.
B) were invented by Columbus.
C) were of Italian origin.
D) were held by an exclusive English patent.
E) were of Chinese and Arab or Greek origin, respectively.
Q6) Treaty of Tordesillas
Q7) Ferdinand Magellan
Q8) caravel
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Chapter 17: Transformations in Europe
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Q1) The class of landholding families below the aristocracy and nobility in England were called the
A) bourgeoisie.
B) peasants.
C) military.
D) gentry.
E) clerics.
Q2) bourgeoisie
Q3) The English Civil War started when
A) Charles II died without an heir and his Catholic brother James II took the throne.
B) James I inherited the throne after Elizabeth died, despite being an absolutist.
C) Charles I arrested his parliamentary critics.
D) Oliver Cromwell executed the king
E) England attempted to impose its authority on Ireland and Scotland.
Q4) Little Ice Age
Q5) balance of power
Q6) Versailles
Q7) stock exchange
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Chapter 18: The Diversity of American Colonial Societies
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Q1) smallpox
Q2) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 18.2, and discuss how European claims in the North American colonies changed by the end of the eighteenth century. What countries were gaining and losing colonial territory? Why?
Q3) Tupac Amaru II
Q4) How were the North American colonies of France and England affected by the French and Indian War?
Q5) Which of the following is not one way that slaves expressed their resistance to the colonial masters in Latin America?
A) Signing petitions
B) Malingering
C) Rebelling
D) Running away
E) Sabotaging
Q6) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 18.1 and describe what European countries dominated the Americas. What were the cash crops grown in the Americas, and where were they grown? What was their economic importance to Europe? Did Europe develop these cash crops, or were they borrowed through a process of diffusion?
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Chapter 19: The Atlantic System and Africa
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Q1) The English Navigation Acts in the 1660s were meant to A) confine trade within its colonies to English ships and cargoes.
B) restrict the English shipping industry.
C) put a tariff on English goods.
D) restrict the English slave trade.
E) encourage free trade.
Q2) What were the effects of the Middle Passage on both slave traders and slaves?
Q3) plantocracy
Q4) Men outnumbered women on Caribbean plantations because A) twice as many men were imported.
B) men lived much longer than women.
C) women were not as strong as men.
D) women were more susceptible to disease than men.
E) women refused to consent to plantation work.
Q5) Compare and contrast the European mercantilist and capitalist systems.
Q6) Locate the different African kingdoms on Map (in the textbook) 19.3. What kingdoms are in these locations today? Use the Internet and the newspaper to discuss the issues of the states in this region today.
Q7) How did the Saharan slave trade differ from the Atlantic slave trade?
Q8) seasoning
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Chapter 20: Between Europe and China
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Q1) Cossacks
Q2) Mughal is Persian for A) infidel.
B) interloper.
C) conquerors.
D) Mongol.
E) Mamluk.
Q3) In the Muslim world, homosexuality was A) unknown.
B) encouraged.
C) introduced by the Silk Road.
D) disapproved, but relationships with boys were not unusual.
E) practiced only among the rich.
Q4) The trading of coffee from this port became the rage in the fifteenth century.
A) Venice
B) Istanbul
C) Malacca
D) Mocha
E) Zanzibar
Q5) Mughal Empire
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Chapter 21: East Asia in Global Perspective
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Q1) Using Map (in the textbook) 21.1, locate the city where the Chinese allowed European trade to take place. Discuss the growing European frustration with Chinese trade policies.
Q2) In Korea, women negotiated Confucian dogma toward women including
Q3) The growth of the early Qing Empire was fueled by the desire to create an economic and demographic recovery in China. What did the Qing government do to stimulate that recovery?
Q4) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 21.1 and locate the Amur River, Mongolia, Nerchinsk, and Siberia. Describe the confrontation between Russia and China and explain how this border dispute was settled.
Q5) The group within the Tokugawa era that weakened centralized economic policies was the wealthy
A) daimyo
B) shoguns
C) merchants
D) samurai
E) scholars
Q6) Using Map (in the textbook) 21.2, analyze the effects of climate on East Asian in general and the Qing Empire in particular.
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Chapter 22: The Early Industrial Revolution
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Q1) positivism
Q2) Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution on rural areas in western Europe and America.
Q3) The most profitable item in international trade in the 18th century was:
A) Cotton
B) Corn
C) Coal
D) Sugar
E) Slaves
Q4) The United States was the first country to create commercially viable steamships. The first commercially successful steamboat was Robert Fulton's North River, which first sailed in this river.
A) St. Lawrence Seaway
B) Hudson River
C) Mississippi River
D) Ohio River
E) Erie Canal
Q5) laissez faire
Q6) What were the environmental effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Q7) mercantilism
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Chapter 23: Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World
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Q1) In 1830, Greece won its independence from the
A) Ottoman Empire.
B) British Empire.
C) Russian Empire.
D) French Empire.
E) Byzantine Empire.
Q2) What problems did the British face after defeating the French in 1763?
A) Slave revolts
B) Limiting settlement in Amerindian lands
C) The need to impose higher taxes
D) b and c
E) all of the above
Q3) Which 1770 event galvanized public opinion throughout the American colonies against British rule?
A) The "Molly Pitcher Incident"
B) The Stamp Act
C) The "Boston Massacre"
D) The Quebec Act
E) The public hanging of Thomas Paine
Q4) Estates General
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Chapter 24: Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism
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Q1) Which of the following were factors hindering reforms in Russia?
A) lack of urbanization
B) predominance of agriculture.
C) poor transportation opportunities.
D) diversity of languages proscribing unification.
E) all of the above
Q2) most-favored-nation status
Q3) Although the Ottoman Empire emulated European modernization and stimulated commerce and urbanization, it was unable to solve which major problem?
A) Extraterritoriality, or sovereignty for foreign residents within Ottoman states
B) The imperial government's chronic shortage of money
C) Resistance from Christian sectors, which brought European sanctions
D) Overextension of the empire
E) The banking crisis of the 1850s
Q4) Slavophiles
Q5) Arrow War
Q6) Decembrist Revolt
Q7) Crimean War
Q8) Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
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Chapter 25: Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas
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Q1) underdevelopment
Q2) Because Canada did not allow women to enter medical school before 1895, that country's first women doctors received their degrees in A) Europe.
B) Argentina.
C) Brazil.
D) the United States.
E) Cuba.
Q3) When confronted with the choice of economic growth or environmental protection in the 1800s and early 1900s,
A) Western Hemisphere nations tried to adopt a balanced policy.
B) some nations chose growth over protection.
C) all nations chose environmental protection.
D) all nations chose economic growth.
E) nations did not make a conscious choice between the two.
Q4) Confederation of 1867
Q5) abolitionists
Q6) U. S. Civil War
Q7) Simón Bolívar
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Chapter 26: Varieties of Imperialism in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America
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Q1) The underlying goal of British imperialism in the late century, as exemplified by Cecil Rhodes, was to
A) control foreign territory.
B) promote British trade overseas.
C) beat other nations to new territories.
D) protect British citizens overseas.
E) find a place to send convicts and other "undesirables."
Q2) Ironically, the British were the world's greatest slave traders and later A) became the most aggressive abolitionists.
B) reopened the slave trade with the Asante.
C) interfered with the French treatment of their slaves in Saint Domingue.
D) replaced factory workers with African slaves.
E) conspired to operate an illegal slave-trading operation out of Barbados.
Q3) What impact did industrialization have on the process of colonization in Africa and Asia?
Q4) On Map (in the textbook) 26.1, locate the great rivers that were being explored in Africa during the nineteenth century.
Q5) Indian Civil Service
Q6) Menelik II
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Chapter 27: The New Power Balance
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Q1) The early-twentieth-century Chinese plan for reform, though tried in vain, was the
A) Mandate of Heaven.
B) "self-strengthening movement."
C) Cixi reforms.
D) imperial restoration.
E) Great Leap Forward.
Q2) A significant point of dispute between France and Germany was
A) Germany's seizure of Alsace and Lorraine.
B) Germany's assault on French naval supremacy.
C) Germany's desire that France get out of Africa.
D) Germany's support for Alfred Dreyfus.
E) France's insistence that Strasbourg speak French.
Q3) Victorian Age
Q4) Compare and contrast the influence of Europe and the United States on China and Japan between 1850 and 1914.
Q5) Mikhail Bakunin
Q6) Empress Dowager Cixi
Q7) railroads
Q8) Yamagata Aritomo
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Chapter 28: The Crisis of the Imperial Order
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Q1) Which of the following were challenges Japan faced after World War I?
A) very few natural resources and little arable land
B) regular typhoons
C) periodic earthquakes
D) rapidly rising population
E) all of the above
Q2) The influenza epidemic of 1918-1919
A) was a germ warfare attack by the Germans.
B) killed 1 million worldwide.
C) killed 20 million worldwide.
D) did not kill people, but killed horses.
E) was contained with the use of antibiotics.
Q3) Review Map (in the textbook) 28.4. How did the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the Near East benefit Britain? What new countries were created?
Q4) Most European nations thought the war that started in 1914 would
A) be won by the fastest-moving army and the boldest general.
B) be long and costly.
C) end with little expense.
D) help unite the classes.
E) be won by slow perseverance.
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Q2) Perhaps the most significant hold Europe had on Africa was _______________.
Q3) Who projected the first motion picture in 1895?
A) Auguste and Louis Lemiere
B) Wilbur and Orville Wright
C) John and Sebastian Bach
D) Max and Maxine Planck
E) None of the above
Q4) Among the many languages of India, the educated middle class communicated in A) Urdu.
B) Tamil.
C) Hindi.
D) Sanskrit.
E) English.
Q5) Dada
Q6) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 29.1, and compare Lord Curzon's partition of India in 1905 with the 1947 split of India and Pakistan. Why are there two different areas known as Pakistan?
Q7) Who were the maharajahs?
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Q8) What were the circumstances prior to 1911 that triggered the Mexican Revolution?
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Chapter 30: The Collapse of the Old Order
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Q2) Italy's fasci di combattimento demanded action and intimidated politicians in Italy, and they were initially comprised mainly
A) radical politicians and hired thugs.
B) conservative politicians and the military.
C) disgruntled workers and socialists.
D) unemployed veterans and violent youths.
E) pardoned prisoners.
Q3) China's response to the Depression was
A) one of the worst in the non-industrialized world
B) very little, as their problems were more political than economic.
C) to start a revolution for modernization.
D) to make an alliance with Japan for raw materials in exchange for imported finished goods.
E) negligible, as their economy was growing under the auspices of Communism.
Q4) Using Map (in the textbook) 30.3, identify Nagasaki and Hiroshima and explain their importance during World War II.
Q5) Holocaust
Q6) Stalingrad
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Chapter 31: The Cold War and Decolonization
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A) unwilling to flirt with either the US or the USSR.
B) ignored by the Soviet Union.
C) mostly in Latin America.
D) usually newly independent, poor nations.
E) all in the Northern Hemisphere.
Q2) Kwame Nkrumah
Q3) The discovery by the United States that the Soviet Union had deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 sparked
A) the blockade of the Soviet Union.
B) United States deployment of nuclear missiles in Turkey.
C) rebellion in Czechoslovakia.
D) the Bay of Pigs invasion.
E) the Cuban missile crisis.
Q4) Briefly discuss the origins of the Vietnam War. What two broad global contexts explain the onset of that conflict? What were the long-term repercussions of United States involvement in Vietnam?
Q5) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Q6) How was "World War III" avoided in the post-World War II period?
Q7) The Green Revolution
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Chapter 32: The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration
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Q2) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Q3) What factors have contributed to the globalization of fast food?
A) later marriage ages in modern industrial societies
B) busy schedules mean less family meals
C) increased immigration and travel.
D) greater cultural promotion in various media
E) all of these
Q4) NATO forces were dispatched to the Balkans and used air strikes against Serbia to stop ethnic cleansing in:
A) Albania.
B) Montenegro
C) Bosnia-Herzogovinia
D) Kosovo
E) Croatia
Q5) The sole communist leader of Eastern Europe who refused to compromise communist ideals was _______________.
Q6) Proxy wars were _______________.
Q7) Deng Xiaoping
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Q8) What conditions led to the end of the Cold War and the breaking up of the USSR?
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Q1) What events took place on September 11, 2001? How did these events reflect a rejection of American domination at the end of the millennium? Why was terrorism the chosen method for this rejection?
Q2) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 33.1 and explain why areas such as Latin America and Africa have the lowest GDPs. Correlate this with the relatively recent events of industrialization and decolonization.
Q3) A universally acceptable women's rights agenda at the international women's right's conferences
A) was formally signed in Paris in 1970.
B) was formally signed in New York in 1980.
C) proved elusive.
D) was formally signed in Toronto in 1990.
E) was achieved on the first ballot.
Q4) Vladimir Putin
Q5) Use Map (in the textbook) 33.3 and examine what religions have the most adherents and what regions have large atheist or nonreligious populations. Is there an explanation for this pattern?
Q6) cultural imperialism
Q7) internet
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