World History
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Course Introduction
World History is an expansive survey course that explores the development of human societies from ancient civilizations to the modern era. It examines key events, cultural exchanges, political structures, economic systems, and social transformations across different regions of the world. Students will analyze the interactions and conflicts that have shaped global history, consider the impacts of technology and trade, and gain perspective on contemporary issues through a historical lens. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, comparative analysis, and understanding diverse perspectives across time and place.
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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) A society where the rule of women prevails is called a A) matriarchy.
B) patriarchy.
C) maternalism.
D) paternalsim.
E) matrilineality.
Answer: A
Q2) Charles Darwin argued that over long periods of time species changed mainly as the result of natural selection and genetic mutation. Darwin called this process A) evolution.
B) biological determinism.
C) human osteology.
D) logical progression.
E) creationism.
Answer: A
Q3) Homo habilis
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) Homo sapiens
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 2: The First River-Valley Civilizations
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Q1) cuneiform
Answer: Cuneiform is a system of writing that was used in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. It is one of the earliest known forms of writing, dating back to around 3200 BCE. Cuneiform was created by pressing a reed stylus into clay tablets to create wedge-shaped characters. It was used for recording administrative, economic, and religious information, as well as literature and poetry. Cuneiform was primarily used in the region of Mesopotamia, which is modern-day Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria, and Turkey. It was in use for over three thousand years, until it was eventually replaced by the alphabet. Cuneiform is important because it represents one of the earliest forms of written communication and played a crucial role in the development of human civilization. It allowed for the recording and preservation of knowledge, history, and culture, and contributed to the advancement of society in ancient Mesopotamia.
Q2) Which of the following classes does not belong to Babylonia society?
A) The class of slaves
B) The class of dependent farmers and artisans
C) The class of tenant farmers
D) The free, landowning class
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Mediterranean and Middle East
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Q1) Which group were the first to learn iron making?
Answer: Hittites
Q2) The Library of ______ was a large collection of writings drawn from the ancient literary, religious, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia.
A) Ninevah
B) Ashurbanipal
C) Ashur
D) Crete
E) Alexandria
Answer: B
Q3) The Assyrian ruler was
A) a king.
B) a god.
C) the strongest warrior of the tribe.
D) both A and B.
E) we don't know how he was chosen.
Answer: D
Q4) Who was the longest-ruling "builder" king of the New Dynasty in Egypt?
Answer: Ramesses II.
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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 earliest political and economic influence on Nubia was
A) Egypt.
B) the Sudan.
C) Mali.
D) Kush.
E) Meroë.
Q3) Discuss the importance of the Chinese concept of "harmony" in both religious and political terms. How does this concept manifest itself in political and religious structures? Does this concept remain stable?
Q4) If Confucianism emphasized social engagement, its great rival, Daoism, urged
Q5) Druids
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Chapter 5: Greece and Iran
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Q1) 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
Q2) sacrifice
Q3) 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.
Q4) Cyrus
Q5) Delian League
Q6) 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
Q7) Darius I
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Chapter 6: An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China
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Q1) The essential economic activity of the early Roman state was based on
A) agriculture.
B) mercantilism.
C) mining.
D) fishing.
E) the military.
Q2) Liu Bang
Q3) What factor caused a decrease in small farms in the Late Roman Republic?
A) Wars that devastated land and made farming difficult
B) An economy primarily based on trade with the East
C) The growth of latifundia and a shift to nonstaple crops
D) Increased urbanization in the centralized Republic
E) Deforestation
Q4) Gaozu
Q5) Republic
Q6) What role did technology play in the success and spread of the Han dynasty?
Q7) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 6.2 and explain the geographic reasons why Chinese expansion did not extend into India, Southeast Asia, or the Mongolian Steppe.
Q8) Han
Q9) Describe the problems that led to the Roman Empire's "third-century crisis." Page 8
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Chapter 7: India and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Describe the aftermath of the collapse of the Indus River Valley civilization and the advent of the Vedic Age in terms of geography, technology, and class divisions.
Q2) At the end of the Vedic period, the authority of the Brahmins was challenged by individuals seeking new spiritual answers. What was the result of this challenge?
Q3) The Vedic Age was a new historical period in India marked by
A) religious texts that are the main source of information about the period.
B) the migration of merchant traders into India.
C) the emergence of the Vedic Empire.
D) a new weather pattern, the Vedic Storms.
E) a switch to the Vedic alphabet.
Q4) The varna system developed in order to create
A) a uniform legal code in India.
B) social order between groups.
C) standardized religious beliefs.
D) an integrated economic system to aid merchants.
E) a trained army of citizen soldiers.
Q5) karma
Q6) Bhagavad-Gita
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Chapter 8: Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas
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Q1) The first apartment-type living structures were found in _______________.
Q2) Wari
Q3) The Chavin dominated a densely populated region between 900 B.C.E. and 250 B.C.E. that included large areas of:
A) the Peruvian coastal plain
B) the Andean foothills
C) the southern Brazilian coast
D) a and b above
E) b and c above
Q4) Which of the following groups was the earliest Mesoamerican civilization?
A) Toltecs
B) Olmec
C) Maya
D) Aztecs
E) Oaxacans
Q5) What was the Maya view of the cosmos?
Q6) Olmec
Q7) Using Map (in the textbook) 8.2, describe the role geography played in the fact that the Maya never developed a unified and integrated state.
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Chapter 9: Networks of Communication and Exchange
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Q1) The mariners involved in the Indian Ocean trade were
A) almost exclusively of Indian background.
B) a multilingual and multiethnic group.
C) from many lands, but all were Muslim.
D) primarily Arabic and Persian.
E) all Africans from the sub-Saharan region.
Q2) Silk Road
Q3) Most sub-Saharan languages come from one giant linguistic family, called A) Sudanese-Zulu.
B) Swahili.
C) Semitic.
D) Niger-Kongo.
E) Bantu.
Q4) One of the greatest promoters of Buddhism was A) in the Tang dynasty of China.
B) King Ashoka of India.
C) Alexander the Great.
D) Emperor Darius of Persia.
E) Zuanzang of China.
Q5) stirrup
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Chapter 10: The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam
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Q1) Why did Muhammad leave Mecca for Medina (known as the hijra, which marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar)?
A) He sought more followers in the north.
B) One of his visions commanded him to.
C) Meccan leaders were threatened by his popularity.
D) Muhammad's wife had family in Medina.
E) Theology argued that Abraham had lived in the north.
Q2) The founder of the Sasanid empire in approximately 224 was _______________.
Q3) Which group resisted the message of Islam in Medina and was eventually expelled or eliminated by Muhammad?
A) Jews
B) Christians
C) Buddhists
D) Zoroastrians
E) Nestorians
Q4) madrasa
Q5) Fatimid
Q6) Nestorians
Q7) Umayyad Caliphate
Q8) Islam
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Chapter 11: Christian Societies Emerge in Europe
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Q1) After the tenth century the Roman Catholic Church faced all of the following challenges except
A) disagreements over church regulations.
B) getting the office of pope more acknowledged internationally.
C) shortages of trained clergy.
D) continued infractions of the rules against clergy marrying.
E) residual pagan practices such as the worship of rivers, trees, and mountains.
Q2) Orthodox Christianity
Q3) What is considered the greatest Byzantine architectural monument?
A) Hagia Sophia
B) The Great Horn
C) The Hippodrome
D) The palace of the Porphyrogenitus rulers
E) The library of Alexius Comnenus
Q4) Charlemagne
Q5) What were the significant technological developments in the Late Middle Ages, and how were they responsible for expanding the European economy?
Q6) serf
Q7) monasticism
Q8) horse collar
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Chapter 12: Inner and East Asia
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Q1) Sei Shonagon is famous for what?
A) Being an accomplished warrior.
B) Writing The Pillow Book.
C) Writing a collection of poetry called the Manyoshu.
D) Writing The Tale of Genji.
E) Becoming Japan's only female emperor.
Q2) Silla
Q3) The most serious rivals to the Tang Empire were the
A) Mongols and the Berbers.
B) Vikings and the Huns.
C) Uigurs and Tibetans.
D) Arabs and Japanese.
E) Russians and Koreans.
Q4) Kamakura shogunate
Q5) Which of the following Chinese customs did the Japanese choose not to implement?
A) Architectural styles
B) A Confucian-style central government
C) The study of Buddhism
D) The Confucian legal code
E) Walls around its cities for protection
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Chapter 13: Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath
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Q1) The significant scientific discoveries of Islamic scholars were translated by A) Arabic scholars.
B) Byzantine monks into Greek.
C) Christian scholars in Spain.
D) Indian scholars in Delhi.
E) all of these.
Q2) One of the most significant effects of Mongol trade routes was the spread of diseases including A) typhus.
B) influenza.
C) smallpox.
D) bubonic plague.
E) all of the above.
Q3) Menial work in Mongol camps was done by A) women
B) gendered division of labor
C) slaves
D) children.
E) all of these.
Q4) bubonic plague
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Chapter 14: Latin Europe
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Q1) By 1500, the English Parliament
A) had been disbanded by King John.
B) had overthrown the king and gained complete governmental authority.
C) had become a permanent part of English government.
D) had yet to be officially formed.
E) had been disbanded.
Q2) Renaissance (European)
Q3) The period from 1200 to 1500 is better known as Europe's _______________.
Q4) What percentage of the western European population was rural during the late Middle Ages?
A) 70%
B) 75%
C) 80%
D) 90%
E) 100%
Q5) Using Map (in the textbook) 14.3, discuss what happened in the year 1453 and why it was important in European history and marked changes in many national boundaries.
Q6) Hundred Years War
Q7) guild
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Chapter 15: Southern Empires, Southern Seas
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Q1) Urdu
Q2) Why has Aden thrived commercially since ancient times?
A) favorable maritime winds
B) mutual tolerance of diverse religions
C) geostrategic location
D) favorable rainfall for drinking water
E) all of these
Q3) What was the primary form of administrative record-keeping in the Inka Empire?
A) abacus
B) tunic
C) khipus
D) quinoa
E) cuzco
Q4) Using Map (in the textbook) 15.3, trace the geographic extent of the Indian Ocean trade, the world's richest maritime trading network between 1200 and 1500. Label the lands and peoples participating in that trade.
Q5) Trace the rise of the Aztec Empire and the importance of their military strategy. What type of administrative landscape did the Aztec establish? How did the Aztec treat their subjugated peoples?
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Chapter 16: The Maritime Revolution
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Q1) The Ming Empire attempted to reestablish Chinese predominance and prestige in the Indian Ocean by
A) sending out seven imperial fleets between 1405 and 1433.
B) employing Mongol horsemen to travel the Silk Road.
C) attempting to defeat the Portuguese in the famous sea battle of Calcutta.
D) establishing maritime courts to deal with pirates and privateers.
E) building "artificial" islands.
Q2) Vasco da Gama
Q3) The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 divided the New World between
A) Islamic Africa and Christian America.
B) Spain and China.
C) Portugal and Malacca.
D) Spain and Portugal.
E) Spain and Genoa.
Q4) Using Map (in the textbook) 16.3, can you identify at least nine geostrategic maritime locations (choke points, straits) that impacted this period of history and continue to be significant today?
Q5) What was the impact of the Spanish in the Americas, as compared with the Portuguese in Africa and the East? What enabled the Spanish to conquer such an enormous territory with so few men?
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Chapter 17: Transformations in Europe
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Q1) Using Map (in the textbook) 17.3, discuss which states were best positioned to take advantage of global trade, and explain how these advantages affected European politics and competition for trade. For example, what advantages did England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands have compared to other areas of the Holy Roman Empire?
Q2) Using Map (in the textbook) 17.2, identify the threats to Charles V's empire. The Holy Roman Empire was a symbol of Western unity during the Middle Ages. Does the Map (in the textbook) exhibit this unity? How does it indicate that Charles V's efforts for European unity were unsuccessful?
Q3) The most significant challenge posed by early modern astronomers was that of the "heliocentric" universe, first argued by:
A) Galileo Galilei.
B) Nicholas Copernicus
C) Johannes Keppler
D) Frances Bacon
E) Rene Descartes
Q4) Holy Roman Empire
Q5) balance of power
Q6) Glorious Revolution of 1688
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Chapter 18: The Diversity of American Colonial Societies
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Q1) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 18.2 and explain the English and French processes of colonizing the lands of North America. How did the losses of France change the balance of power in North America? What other Old World countries had territorial claims in North America by 1763?
Q2) Pilgrims
Q3) The primary Amerindian allies of the French were the Algonquin and the native enemies of the French were the A) Algonquin.
B) Iroquois.
C) Huron.
D) Cheyenne.
E) Leni Lenape.
Q4) Bartolomé de Las Casas
Q5) Between 1651 and 1673 the English Navigation Acts sought to A) severely limit colonial trading and production competition. B) limit the colonial manufacture of ships.
C) ban importation of the printing press to America.
D) prevent the importation of slaves on slave ships.
E) rechart the waters off the coast of North America.
Q6) The term Columbian Exchange refers to _______________.
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Chapter 19: The Atlantic System and Africa
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Q1) The "clockwise" network of trade in the Atlantic was known as the
A) Continental Trade Route.
B) Reverse Option Market.
C) Robinson Route.
D) European Circuit.
E) Atlantic Circuit.
Q2) While the British system of mercantilism was defined by the Navigation Acts, the French system used laws known as:
A) les Tariffs
B) qu'elle domage
C) Exclusif
D) cose nostra
E) EntrepĂ´t
Q3) The second leg of the Atlantic Circuit, transporting slaves across the Atlantic to plantation colonies, was known as:
A) the Middle Passage
B) the Deadly Voyage
C) Impressment
D) Involuntary Servitude
E) Chains of Sorrow
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Chapter 20: Between Europe and China
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Q1) Tax farming-the paying of taxes in advance for the right to collect greater amounts from others-caused the Ottoman empire to rely more on
A) shifting the tax burden to the rich.
B) imposing a tariff on foreign agricultural products.
C) overfarming.
D) powerful provincial governors
E) peasants working on government land to pay government expenses.
Q2) Peter the Great
Q3) The Mughal Empire was quite prosperous in the sixteenth century because they A) traded cotton cloth.
B) had an efficient government system
C) faced few external threats
D) all of the above
E) b and c
Q4) Using Map (in the textbook) 20.1, locate the capital cities of Isfahan in the Safavid Empire and Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire. How did the geographic location of the cities aid or impede administration of the respective empires?
Q5) How did the extension of the Muslim trade empires compare to those of Christian empires of the West?
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Chapter 21: East Asia in Global Perspective
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Q1) The group within the Tokugawa era that weakened centralized economic policies was the wealthy
A) daimyo
B) shoguns
C) merchants
D) samurai
E) scholars
Q2) How did the Tokugawa Shogunate fall into decline and crisis?
Q3) Who helped negotiate an act of settlement between Russia and China?
A) Ivan IV and Kangxi
B) Jesuit interpreters
C) Siberian shamas
D) Confucian scholars
E) Marco Polo's grandson
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) Describe the Choson empire of Korea as it strengthened in the 16th and 17th centuries. How was Korea influenced by China and Japan? What role did the yangban have in Korean society?
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Chapter 22: The Early Industrial Revolution
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Q1) Explain the effects of the agricultural revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
Q2) The most profitable item in international trade in the 18th century was:
A) Cotton
B) Corn
C) Coal
D) Sugar
E) Slaves
Q3) What were the environmental effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Q4) mechanization
Q5) What invention, which was developed simultaneously in England and America, revolutionized communication during the Industrial Revolution?
A) The phonograph
B) Radar
C) The electric telegraph
D) The battery
E) The telephone
Q6) Why did the Industrial Revolution take place first in Britain rather than in another country?
Q7) positivism
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Chapter 23: Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World
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Q1) 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
Q2) In Europe and the Western Hemisphere, the Enlightenment's intellectual ferment most deeply influenced the A) upper class.
B) poor.
C) nobility.
D) clergy.
E) middle class.
Q3) The colonial wars of the eighteenth century triggered _______________.
Q4) As a result of the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was A) restored.
B) elected.
C) beheaded.
D) deported.
E) enriched.
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Chapter 24: Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism
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Q1) "Most-favored-nation status" meant that A) any beneficial opportunities extended by China to another nation had to be offered to Britain as well.
B) the British gained a monopoly on trade with China.
C) China would allow missionaries from Britain only.
D) China and Britain obtained bilateral rights to attend each other's universities.
E) Britain was attempting to promote competition among Asian nations to see who would compete for British trade.
Q2) extraterritoriality
Q3) The preferred language of the reformed educational system in the Ottoman Empire was
A) Turkish.
B) French.
C) Russian.
D) German.
E) Arabic.
Q4) fez
Q5) Bannermen
Q6) Treaty of Nanking
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Chapter 25: Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas
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Q1) One of the more vocal protestors of slavery came from which political faction?
A) emancipated slaves such as Frederick Douglass.
B) the Whig Party of Abraham Lincoln.
C) The Seneca Falls convention of 1849
D) Southern Baptists.
E) Socialist critics like Charles Fourier.
Q2) In the 1820's, Argentina and Brazil fought to a military stalemate, leaving this country independent:
A) Peru
B) Uruguay
C) Paraguay
D) Tierra del Fuego
E) the Archipelago Islands
Q3) Gran Columbia
Q4) development
Q5) U. S. Civil War
Q6) Refer to Map (in the textbook) 25.3 and show the European and American nations that were expelled from North America by the United States. How was this expulsion accomplished?
Q7) Tecumseh Page 28
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Chapter 26: Varieties of Imperialism in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America
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Q1) What radically altered the social structure of the coastal trading communities?
A) the slave trade
B) palm oil exports.
C) the rubber trade.
D) demand for ivory.
E) the discovery of gold and diamonds in the trans-vaal area.
Q2) Why was the Sepoy Rebellion a turning point in the history of India?
A) The British were finally rebuffed and withdrew from India.
B) The sepoys successfully pushed the British out of Bengal.
C) India came to be ruled directly by the British government.
D) It inspired the development of new weapons that did not require gunpowder.
E) All of these
Q3) The Indian National Congress initially sought
A) ethnic and religious unity.
B) more rights for Indians.
C) more access to the Civil Service.
D) reductions in military expenditures.
E) All of these
Q4) modernization
Q5) Savorgnan de Brazza
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Chapter 27: The New Power Balance
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Q1) Late-nineteenth-century Victorian morality dictated that men and women
A) belong in factories.
B) belong in comparable social spheres.
C) belong in "separate spheres."
D) should be involved in politics.
E) should be in a competitive relationship.
Q2) The largest railway network in the world in 1865 was in A) Great Britain.
B) Canada.
C) Mexico.
D) Japan.
E) the United States.
Q3) The "annihilation of time and space," extolled by the public and the press, referred especially to
A) the development of aircraft.
B) trans-atlantic submarine telegraph cables.
C) transcontinental railroads.
D) the science fiction musings of H. G. Wells.
E) an accurate clock.
Q4) Meiji Restoration
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Chapter 28: The Crisis of the Imperial Order
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Q1) Relative calm and prosperity came to German in the mid-1920's when they did which of the following?
A) joined the League of Nations.
B) borrowed money from New York banks to stabilize their economy.
C) began to rebuild its industries.
D) renegotiated its debt from the "war guilt clause"
E) all of the above.
Q2) The early-twentieth-century system of alliances pitted the British, French, and Russians against the Triple Alliance of
A) the Japanese, Italians, and Germans.
B) the Ottomans, Italians, and Chinese.
C) Austria-Hungary, Japan, and Poland.
D) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
E) Syria, Egypt, and Germany.
Q3) Fourteen Points
Q4) Bolsheviks
Q5) Joseph Stalin
Q6) Treaty of Sevres
Q7) Vladimir Lenin
Q8) Great War
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Chapter 29: Revolutions in Living
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Q1) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q2) During the 1920s, the British in India
A) repressed any attempts at Indian nationalism.
B) made concessions only within the Indian Civil Service.
C) began to withdraw military support.
D) slowly and reluctantly gave Indians control over "national areas" such as education and the economy.
E) brought jazz and "bath tub" gin into popularity.
Q3) In 1912, the African National Congress was
A) founded by Western-educated lawyers and journalists.
B) dedicated to obtaining equal voting rights.
C) dedicated to civil rights of indigenous black inhabitants.
D) all of the above.
E) b and c only.
Q4) Le Corbusier
Q5) Dada
Q6) KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Q7) Sigmund Freud
Q8) Igor Stravinsky
Q9) Haile Selassie
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Chapter 30: The Collapse of the Old Order
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Q1) Using Map (in the textbook) 30.1, trace the latter years of the war in terms of the importance of the North African campaign, the Eastern Front, and the invasion of Normandy.
Q2) Mao Zedong
Q3) Joseph Stalin's goal was to _______________.
Q4) The prime motivation for the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia was
A) its abundant strategic materials including oil and rubber.
B) the opportunity to defeat Western powers.
C) to keep the Japanese people satisfied.
D) to keep the United States from entering the war.
E) to avenge the execution of Japanese sailors in 1938.
Q5) Review Map (in the textbook) 30.2 and discuss the German expansion from 1939 to 1942 and the Allied victories that pushed the Germans back to their own borders.
Q6) What was the source of conflict between Japan and China from 1931 to 1945?
Q7) Adolf Hitler
Q8) Auschwitz
Q9) What two aspects of politics did fascism borrow from their ideological enemy, Communism?
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Q10) What impact did World War II have on the home front in the United States?
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Q1) non-aligned nations
Q2) Describe the origins and functions of the United Nations. Research the Internet and newspapers to find current articles about the United Nations, and explain the issues currently being addressed there. Has the United Nations been an effective peacekeeping institution?
Q3) In 1947 India and Pakistan went to war over the
A) export of Kashmir wool.
B) northwestern state of Kashmir.
C) assassination of the Hindu leader Indira Gandhi.
D) breech of a nuclear weapons pact.
E) All of these
Q4) Why were Greece and Turkey admitted to NATO in 1947?
A) They were felt to be capable of participating in the EEC.
B) to check Soviet expansion in Europe.
C) They were democratic republics with constitutions and met the NATO criteria.
D) They provided missile bases to Western military forces.
E) To reward their resistance movements against the Axis powers during WW II.
Q5) Marshall Plan
Q6) Kwame Nkrumah
Q7) Cold War
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Chapter 32: The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration
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Q1) As Western economies recovered from World War II, most
A) new technologies increased labor requirements.
B) consumers sought new goods to purchase.
C) people wanted to stop government spending on the production of weapons.
D) industries resisted applying new technologies.
E) governments insisted on "balanced budget" amendments.
Q2) The "Brazilian Solution" refers to
A) the rapid population expansion in Latin American nations.
B) Amerindian genocide.
C) the combination of dictatorship, repression, and government promotion of industrialization.
D) a chemical spray used to destroy the rain forest.
E) the development of a defense against nuclear attack.
Q3) In the years since World War II, how have economic development and population growth altered world migration patterns?
Q4) Deng Xiaoping
Q5) neo-liberalism
Q6) newly industrialized economies (NIEs)
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Chapter 33: New Challenges in a New Millenium
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Q2) Which of the following are examples of "NGOs"?
A) Amnesty International
B) Doctors Without Borders
C) International Campaign to Ban Land mines
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q3) What is globalization? How has this affected global politics, nuclear proliferation, and the world economy?
Q4) The rising importance of English as a global second language has been due to the A) use of English in former British colonies.
B) importance of the United States in world affairs and business.
C) popularity of American universities overseas.
D) Both A and B
E) All of these
Q5) global pop
Q6) Aung San Suu Kyi
Q7) al-Qaeda
Q8) Vladimir Putin
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Q9) What sparked the forced resignation of Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf?
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