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World History II explores the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped the modern world from the 16th century to the present. The course examines the impact of global encounters, revolutions, colonialism, industrialization, world wars, and the emergence of new nations. Students analyze trends and events such as globalization, imperialism, decolonization, and contemporary challenges while drawing connections between regions and cultures. Through critical reading and discussion, the course fosters an understanding of how past events continue to influence current global issues and relationships.
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Chapter 1: Before History
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Q1) Which of the following statements is NOT true of Homo erectus?
A) They knew how to control fire.
B) They developed language skills that enabled them to communicate complex ideas.
C) They had brains roughly the same size as those of modern humans.
D) They produced cleavers and hand axes.
E) They walked upright on two legs.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following statements about Australopithecus is NOT true?
A) They produced cleavers and hand axes.
B) They traveled deliberately over distances as far as fifteen kilometers.
C) They walked on two legs,thus freeing their arms to work independently.
D) They produced choppers and scrapers.
E) They were hominids.
Answer: A
Q3) The definition of Homo sapiens is "consciously thinking human."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the
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Q1) What individual believed that the gods had chosen him to "promote the welfare of the people ...[and] to cause justice to prevail in the land"?
A) Moses
B) Nebuchadnezzar
C) Hammurabi
D) Sargon of Akkad
E) Gilgamesh
Answer: C
Q2) Enkidu
A) was the Sumerian god of wisdom.
B) was a leading Sumerian city-state.
C) was the most powerful Babylonian king.
D) was Gilgamesh's friend.
E) is the Hebrew word for "holy."
Answer: D
Q3) The Hebrew god was known as Yahweh.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: 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) Mummification was the process by which Egyptians preserved bodies of deceased individuals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons were introduced into Egypt by the A) Hyksos.
B) Babylonians.
C) Kushites.
D) Harappans.
E) Qin.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Early Societies in South Asia
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Q1) Examine the section from the Rig Veda on the division of Purusha (see Textbook: Sources from the Past: The Rig Veda on the Origin of the Castes).What does this tell us about the creation and nature of the different castes? How does the excerpt from the Rig Veda reflect the importance of the caste system in ancient India? How did this original concept change over the centuries?
Q2) The chief god of the early Aryans was
A) Enlil.
B) a mother goddess.
C) Varuna.
D) Indra.
E) Manu.
Q3) "Now as a man is like this or like that,according as he acts and according as he behaves,so will he be: a man of good acts will become good,a man of bad acts,bad." This passage from the Upanishads explains what religious concept?
A) dharma
B) samsara
C) varna
D) karma
E) moksha
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Chapter 5: Early Society in Mainland East Asia
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Q1) The "mandate of heaven" was the Chinese ideal that expressed the right to govern.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How important was the development of writing to the ancient Chinese? Trace the evolution of this practice.
Q3) Early China enjoyed lasting direct long-distance trade with A) India.
B) Mesopotamia.
C) Egypt.
D) Persia.
E) None of these answers is correct.
Q4) Along with bronze weapons,the Shang nobles used ________ to devastating effect against their opponents.
A) the bronze axe
B) the bow and arrow
C) long pikes
D) spear-throwers
E) chariots
Q5) What is the relationship between patriarchy and ancestor worship in early China?
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Chapter 6: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania
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Q1) What factors might explain the decline and collapse of Mesoamerican societies such as the Olmecs and the Maya? Why is the decline of these two societies so mysterious?
Q2) Describe the Maya ball game.Why did the Maya play it? What role did it serve in society?
Q3) How much written material survives from the Maya?
A) a massive library at Tikal
B) four books
C) none
D) a small library at the ceremonial center of Kaminaljuyú
E) roughly a thousand books captured by the Aztecs
Q4) Describe the origins,development,and decline of the Lapita society.
Q5) Examine the picture of Mochica pottery on page 123.Why would pottery like this be important to scholars as they study South America?
Q6) Austronesians brought human settlement to islands of the Pacific Ocean.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The first Mesoamerican society was the Maya.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Empires of Persia
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Q1) The population of the Achaemenid empire under Darius was
A) one million.
B) three million.
C) six million.
D) eleven million.
E) thirty-five million.
Q2) The Persian king who regularized tax levies and standardized laws was
A) Cyrus.
B) Cambyses.
C) Darius.
D) Xerxes.
E) Alexander.
Q3) The greatest Parthian conqueror was
A) Cyrus.
B) Mithradates I.
C) Ctesiphon.
D) Shapur I.
E) Darius.
Q4) In what ways did Alexander of Macedon both destroy and preserve elements of the Achaemenid empire?
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Chapter 8: The Unification of China
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Q1) In the Daodejing,Laozi stated,"There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water,yet for attacking things that are hard and strong there is nothing that surpasses it." How is this statement representative of Daoist thought?
Q2) What were the most significant technological developments during this period of Chinese history?
Q3) Examine Map 8.1,China under the Qin dynasty,221-207 B.C.E. How was Qin Shihuangdi able to create a state that large? How successful were his methods in the long run?
Q4) Of the following,Qin Shihuangdi's most important contribution to China was
A) building the precursor to the Great Wall.
B) his elaborate tomb,which tells us much about the Qin religious orientation.
C) his appreciation and support of education.
D) establishing a precedent for centralized imperial rule.
E) his conversion to Buddhism.
Q5) The legendary founder of Daoism was Laozi.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the role of the Xiongnu in the history of China during the Han.
Q7) How did the early Han contribute to the unification of China?
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Chapter 9: State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India
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Q1) The beliefs of the Charvakas
A) reflected the increasingly materialistic character of Indian society.
B) reaffirmed basic Hindu tenets.
C) led naturally to the acceptance of Siddhartha Gautama as the Buddha.
D) strengthened the power of the brahmins.
E) led to a spiritual reawakening in India.
Q2) The man that unified northern India and laid the foundation for the first empire to control most of the subcontinent was Chandragupta Maurya.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Siddhartha Gautama was the Buddha.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did India fit in to the trade along the silk roads?
Q5) What social and religious changes worked to transform the caste system during these years? What were the long-term consequences of this transformation?
Q6) With the spread of Mahayana Buddhism,the Hinayana faith disappeared.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase
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Q1) The most notable of the lavish palaces of Minoan culture was built at A) Troy.
B) Sparta.
C) Athens.
D) Harappa.
E) Knossos.
Q2) The naval loss at Salamis was viewed by the Persian king
A) Xerxes.
B) Cyrus.
C) Darius.
D) Cambyses.
E) Darius III.
Q3) Which of the following did NOT come about because of Greek colonization?
A) an increase in the size and diversity of trade
B) a centralized imperial state
C) the spread of Greek language and cultural traditions
D) a quickening of the tempo of social life
E) increased contact with other societies
Q4) Discuss the Greek Olympic Games.What can these games tell us about the nature of the Greeks?
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Chapter 11: Mediterranean Society: The Roman Phase
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Q1) Paul of Tarsus was the leading figure in the expansion of Christianity beyond Judaism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Examine the picture of the mithraeum on page 232.What can its location,under the church of San Clemente,tell you about the changing religious world of the Romans? Does this picture have any symbolic meaning?
Q3) The term paterfamilias refers to the
A) eldest male of the Roman family,who had the ultimate authority over the family.
B) prolonged period of peace and stability beginning with the reign of Augustus.
C) concept of Jesus of Nazareth's relationship to his god.
D) position of Jupiter as the king of the Roman gods.
E) central role of the Roman emperor in running the state.
Q4) How did trade shape the Roman world? How did trade work to bring the Roman world together?
Q5) Examine the illustration of the paved road on page 227.What can this picture tell us about Roman building skills? What can the picture tell us about the tremendous needs of the growing Roman cities?
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Chapter 12: Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads: During the
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Q1) Diocletian divided the Roman empire in half.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How did China's culture change after the decline of the Han dynasty?
Q3) Read the section from St.Cyprian (see Textbook: Sources from the Past: St.Cyprian on Epidemic Disease in the Roman Empire).How was this event representative of the spread of epidemic disease that was crippling both the Roman and Han empires?
Q4) Odoacer was the Visigoth leader who sacked Rome in 410 C.E. A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the main advantages and disadvantages of trade? How did trade along the silk roads influence the societies that engaged in trade?
Q6) In the west,the principle silk roads route terminated in the Turkish port of A) Persepolis.
B) Antioch.
C) Constantinople. D) Alexandria. E) Bakhara.
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Q7) How did the silk roads facilitate the spread of Hinduism and Christianity?
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Chapter 13: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia
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Q1) Compare and contrast the Korean,Vietnamese,and Japanese response to the Chinese.Which society copied the Chinese most completely?
Q2) During the Tang dynasty,the capital of Chang'an was the world's most populous city.
A)True
B)False
Q3) After the collapse of the Tang,warlords ruled in China until the Song dynasty re-imposed imperial rule.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In relation to Chinese traditions and influences,Vietnamese women
A) were forced to accept foot binding.
B) played a more prominent role in society and the economy.
C) had far fewer rights than Chinese women.
D) were excluded from the local marketplaces.
E) wrote many more books than their Chinese counterparts did.
Q5) Trace the development of Buddhism in China and how it interacted with Daoism and Confucianism.
Q6) What is the significance of foot binding?
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Chapter 14: The Expansive Realm of Islam
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Q1) The Islamic thinker who studied Aristotle and whose thought,in turn,influenced the rise of European scholasticism was
A) Omar Khayyam.
B) Ibn Rushd.
C) Ali.
D) al-Ghazali.
E) Ibn Khaldun.
Q2) The Islamic holy law is known as the A) umma.
B) sharia.
C) ulama.
D) qadis.
E) hijra.
Q3) The Sufis believed
A) in reconciling the spiritual and rational worlds.
B) that they,and not the Umayyads,were the legitimate rulers of the Islamic world.
C) in an emotional and mystical union with Allah.
D) that the leadership of the Islamic world had to pass through the line of Ali.
E) in a strictly logical and rational definition of the divine.
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Chapter 15: India and the Indian Ocean Basin
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Q1) Islam reached India by all of the following routes EXCEPT
A) conquest by Arabic invaders.
B) missionaries sent by the emperor Harsha.
C) Islamic merchants.
D) migrations from Turkish-speaking peoples from central Asia.
E) conquest by Arabic invaders and missionaries sent by Harsha.
Q2) 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?
Q3) Examine the development of Hinduism in response to the spread of Islam.What other religions have gone through periods of transition in response to outside threats?
Q4) The two kingdoms that dominated southern India from the ninth through the sixteenth centuries were Chola and Vijayanagar.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The two most important deities in the Hindu pantheon were Vishnu and Shiva.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What were some of the significant trade goods produced in southern India?
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Chapter 16: The Two Worlds of Christendom
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Q1) What is Hagia Sophia used for today,and what does this use tell us about the fate of Byzantium?
Q2) After the death of Louis the Pious,the Carolingian empire
A) reversed a short period of decline and reached its greatest territorial extent.
B) was swallowed up by a resurgence of Byzantine power.
C) was split into three parts by his sons.
D) became a puppet state controlled by the expanding Islamic empires.
E) fell under British control.
Q3) In medieval society,political power was vested in
A) a strong centralized government.
B) local notables or lords.
C) the pope.
D) the hands of the Holy Roman emperor.
E) the hands of the Byzantine emperor.
Q4) Examine the role that trade played in the Byzantine empire.How did the economic world of Byzantium change over the years?
Q5) Examine the social structure of the Byzantine empire.Explain the theme system.Trace the changing status of the peasants.
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Chapter 17: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
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Q1) Examine the social structure and culture of Turkish nomadic tribes.How were the tribes structured? What role did warfare play in determining social status?
Q2) The Turkish peoples
A) were a single,homogeneous group.
B) established a tightly structured centralized government.
C) abandoned their urban existence because of disease and economic pressures. D) spread Islam to southwest Asia.
E) never formed a single,homogeneous group.
Q3) How did the Turks come to topple the Byzantine empire?
Q4) What does the book mean when it states that most of the Mongol leaders were better conquerors than administrators? How was this evident in the various Mongol states? Were there exceptions to that rule?
Q5) Examine Map 17.2,The Mongol empires,ca.1300 C.E. How were the Mongols able to create the largest empire in history? Did they form a unified empire? How did they influence Eurasia?
Q6) Examine the life of the Turkish nomadic tribes.How did they adjust to their environments? How did the environment limit their development? How did the environment and their nomadic lifestyle influence their intellectual world?
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Chapter 18: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q1) After about the ninth century,the expansion of the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean trade networks stimulated increased traffic in African slaves.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Extended families and clans served as the main foundation of social and economic organization in small-scale agricultural societies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The conversion to Islam by east African merchants and princes did all of the following EXCEPT
A) eliminate native religions.
B) allow for the formation of alliances with other Islamic princes.
C) give a greater sense of legitimacy for east African princes.
D) help Islam become one of the principal cultural and religious traditions of the region.
E) allow for greater cooperation with other Islamic merchants.
Q4) Examine Sundiata's establishment of the kingdom of Mali.How has his legend transcended the centuries?
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Chapter 19: The Increasing Influence of Europe
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Q1) During the high middle ages,the most popular saint was
A) St. Peter.
B) St. Dominic.
C) St. Francis.
D) the Virgin Mary.
E) St. James.
Q2) How did the development of chivalry affect the noble classes?
Q3) What was the role of the textile industry in the European economy during this period?
Q4) The Waldensians
A) were the most important of the crusading orders during the first crusade.
B) advocated modest and simple lives.
C) stressed the primacy of the Roman Catholic clergy.
D) sailed to Newfoundland under the direction of Leif Ericsson.
E) fought for independence from France.
Q5) Chivalry was a formal and widely recognized code of ethics and behavior considered appropriate for nobles.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Where were the centers of the trade networks for Europe? Why those locations?
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Chapter 20: Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) According to Bernardino de Sahagún,newborn Aztec boys were told,"Heed,hearken: thy home is not here ...Thou hast been sent into warfare." What can this simple statement tell you about Aztec society? What role did warriors play in Aztec society? Compare the Aztecs to other societies you've covered so far.
Q2) Look at the reproduction of the Mexica list on page 431.How important was the role of writing to the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican societies? How does the role of writing for these tribes relate to that of the tribes of North and South America? What role did tribute from its conquered peoples play in the Aztec success?
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) What role did trade play in the nomadic foraging societies of Australia?
Q5) Examine the rise of the Inca empire.What were the leading factors in this movement? Who were the important leaders?
Q6) What are some of the typical trade goods within the Aztec empire? Which items particularly impressed the Spanish?
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Chapter 21: Expanding Horizons of Cross-Cultural
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Q1) Relate the humanistic thought of the Renaissance to philosophies in other societies in the world at that time.How revolutionary was the humanistic view? How does the Renaissance emphasis on the uniqueness of the individual relate to other societies' worldview?
Q2) What role did trade play,both beneficial and harmful,during this period? How does this role relate to the role that trade has played in other societies studied earlier in the class?
Q3) Central to Renaissance thought was a(n)
A) fascination with classic Greek and Roman art and philosophy.
B) deeply religious desire to withdraw from the world.
C) desire to re-create the glory of Byzantium.
D) appreciation for the art and thought of the middle ages.
E) appreciation of secular Confucian thought that had been brought about by closer ties to China.
Q4) Mongols contributed to the process of diffusion most notably by helping to spread gunpowder technologies west from China.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What were the social and economic outcomes of the plague?
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Chapter 22: Transoceanic Encounters and Global
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Q1) The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was A) Dias.
B) Columbus.
C) Cook.
D) Magellan.
E) Vasco da Gama.
Q2) What factors led to the Seven Years' War in the eighteenth century? What was the outcome,globally,of that conflict?
Q3) The VOC was the
A) English East India Company.
B) indirect trade route that Portuguese mariners used to take advantage of wind patterns.
C) Portuguese missionary organization that spread Christianity along the trade routes.
D) United East India Company.
E) European multinational organization,Victory Over China,that focused on Asian expansion.
Q4) Compare the Spanish conquest of the Philippines with the Dutch conquest of Indonesia.What kind of colony emerged in each case?
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Q1) Several princes of the Holy Roman Empire warmed to Luther's views,partly because of personal conviction but partly because of the opportunity for them to build a power base.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Examine the idea behind the balance of power.How did this concept play itself out in Europe? How was this balance of power different from the political patterns in the rest of the world?
Q3) During the eighteenth century,the population of Europe rose to A) 81 million.
B) 180 million.
C) 240 million.
D) 310 million.
E) 350 million.
Q4) Look at Map 23.1,Sixteenth-century Europe.Why did Europe divide into a collection of sovereign states and not attain the level of the greater empires that occurred in China,India,and the Islamic lands? Why didn't the Holy Roman Empire reach the level of power and grandeur that its name implied? What were the consequences of this competition?
Q5) What were the circumstances of the English Reformation?
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Chapter 24: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania
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Q1) The British initially made use of Australia
A) because of its rich silver mines.
B) because of its extraordinary agricultural abundance.
C) as a busy port on the route from Acapulco to Manila.
D) as a penal colony.
E) as a tourist retreat.
Q2) 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.
Q3) The Treaty of Tordesillas
A) granted England control over Australia.
B) split Central and South America between Spain and Portugal.
C) ended the Seven Years' War.
D) limited Spanish northern expansion to modern-day Florida.
E) ended the English practice of raiding Spanish treasure galleons.
Q4) Describe the typical relations between French and English settlers and the native Americans.
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Chapter 25: Africa and the Atlantic World
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Q1) The rise in maritime trade in the early modern era in Africa
A) ironically led to a decrease in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
B) led to the consolidation in the largest imperial states in African history.
C) led to political chaos and the destruction of the traditional African balance of power.
D) resulted in regional kingdoms replacing the imperial states of west Africa.
E) resulted in a new pattern in which the village became the principal political entity.
Q2) As the profitability of slavery declined,Europeans began to shift their investments from sugarcane and slaves to newly emerging manufacturing industries.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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?
Q4) Like Islam,Christianity would not make compromises with the traditional beliefs and customs of sub-Saharan peoples.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: Tradition and Change in East Asia
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Q1) Compare and contrast the cultural,intellectual,and literary accomplishments of China and Japan during these years.In what ways was Japan influenced by China?
Q2) The practice of foot binding
A) was a Yuan form of torture that was copied during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
B) represented the increasing subjugation of women during the Qing dynasty.
C) was imported from India.
D) expressed the growing freedom of women in Qing China to follow urban fashion trends.
E) prevented Chinese prisoners from escaping during huge government-sponsored work projects.
Q3) Hongwu's new dynasty was called "Ming," which meant
A) "all-powerful."
B) "mandate of heaven."
C) "center of the universe."
D) "son of heaven."
E) "brilliant."
Q4) What are some of the principles of Confucianism that influenced Chinese notions of government and society at this time?
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Q1) Constantinople was captured by Mehmed II in 1453 and became the Ottoman capital,subsequently known as Istanbul.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the religious and political issues that separated the Ottoman Turks and the Safavid Turks,two neighboring Islamic states,in the sixteenth century.
Q3) What role did religious conservatism play in the decline of the Islamic states? Have we seen similar problems in other societies studied so far?
Q4) Khayr al-Din Barbarossa Pasha was the
A) architect who helped Süleyman rebuild Istanbul.
B) founder of the Safavid dynasty.
C) slave who helped Süleyman create his famed law codes.
D) greatest Ottoman poet.
E) admiral who carried Ottoman naval power into the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean.
Q5) What factors led to the economic and military decline of the Islamic empires?
Q6) By what steps did Shah Abbas achieve a strong and unified Safavid state?
Q7) Compare Akbar's policies with those of Aurangzeb.
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Q1) Which of the following was NOT one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers?
A) popular sovereignty
B) legal equality
C) political equality
D) equality between women and men
E) individual freedom
Q2) Many thinkers of the Enlightenment affirmed the legal and social privileges enjoyed by the aristocrats of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the basic social structure of Latin American society in 1800.What factors led to the revolutions that followed?
Q4) Why did the French revolution turn against itself when the American revolution didn't? In what ways was the French revolution more radical than its American predecessor? How radical did the French revolution become? Could it be argued that the American revolution did turn against its roots? Were there limits to the social and political change in the American revolution?
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Chapter 29: The Making of Industrial Society
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Q1) According to the Manifesto of the Communist Party,all of human history had been a history of
A) class struggle.
B) the quest for religious self-awareness interfering with the development of the peasantry.
C) the search for equality.
D) the search for freedom.
E) industrial integration.
Q2) The use of which of the following increased dramatically in the nineteenth century?
A) steel
B) iron
C) copper
D) gold
E) aluminum
Q3) Beyond expanding,what else was happening to the population of the industrializing world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
Q4) What are some of the characteristics of "industrial capitalism"? How did industrial giants like J.D. Rockefeller achieve such dominance over the marketplace?
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Q1) Benito Juárez was
A) the caudillo who restored order in Argentina.
B) the author of the epic poem The Gaucho Martín Fierro.
C) the first Mexican communist leader.
D) a Mexican dictator who promoted industrialization.
E) the leader of La Reforma in Mexico in the 1850s.
Q2) Note the political and economic status of each of the following groups in the United States in the late nineteenth century: native Americans,African-Americans,women,and foreign-born immigrants.
Q3) What factors contributed to the tremendous economic growth of the United States in the late nineteenth century? What were some of the problems generated by that economic growth?
Q4) The heritage of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism and the legacy of slavery inclined Latin American societies toward the establishment of hierarchical distinctions based on ethnicity and color.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did the caudillos rise to power in Latin America? Who benefited most from their rule?
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Q1) Study the picture of Empress Dowager Cixi's marble vessel on page 737.What is the symbolism of this story? Were other countries making short-sighted decisions?
Q2) What significant political and legal reforms did the Russian government implement in the late nineteenth century?
Q3) What was the significance of the Young Turks? What was their main influence? How successful were the Ottoman Turks at reform? Compare efforts at reform among the Qing,Tokugawa,Ottomans,and Russians.
Q4) Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were the leaders of the
A) Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists.
B) Hundred Days reforms.
C) Chinese Communist Party.
D) Taiping rebellion.
E) Meiji restoration.
Q5) In 1899 the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists,known as Boxers,organized to rid China of "foreign devils" and their influences.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What were the causes of the Taiping rebellion? What was the outcome?
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Chapter 32: The Building of Global Empires
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Q1) Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as
A) smart but docile.
B) somewhat intelligent but remarkably energetic.
C) intelligent and morally superior to all other peoples in the world.
D) dull and arrogant.
E) unintelligent and lazy.
Q2) Because the nomadic peoples of Australia did not occupy lands permanently,British settlers considered the continent terra nullius,"land belonging to no one," and one that they could seize and put to their own uses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What did the United States gain from the Spanish-Cuban-American War? Note the political status of each of these acquisitions.
Q4) The term "social Darwinism" is associated with
A) Cecil Rhodes.
B) Josiah Clark Nott.
C) Herbert Spencer.
D) Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
E) Otto von Bismarck.
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Q1) Would the experiences of the soldiers of World War I be representative of all soldiers in all wars? Was there something unique about the experiences of these soldiers? What would their experiences say about warfare in the twentieth century?
Q2) The military plan that called for an invasion of France through Belgium was called A) Plan XVII.
B) the Bismarck plan.
C) the Schlieffen plan.
D) the Brest-Litovsk Offense.
E) the Belgian insertion plan.
Q3) Imagine that you are a common soldier at a World War I battle such as Verdun or the Somme.What obstacles would you have faced? Why would your offensive assaults not work?
Q4) When and why did the United States enter the war? What did this move mean?
Q5) The underlying causes of the Great War included intense nationalism,ethnic resentments,pursuit of economic interests,colonial rivalries,and a general struggle over the balance of power in Europe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 34: An Age of Anxiety
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A) proposed that the government should do nothing and wait out the economic hard times.
B) was a big supporter of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
C) felt that the government should tighten the money supply.
D) wrote that capitalism had failed and that it was time for the United States to experiment with communism.
E) urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs.
Q2) Artists of the Dada movement sought to strongly criticize all EXCEPT which of the following?
A) rationality
B) conformist art
C) nationalism
D) materialism
E) abstract art
Q3) Examine the political movement known as fascism.What were its main tenets? Compare fascism to democracy and communism.
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Q1) Which of the following refers to "land of the pure"?
A) India
B) Soviet Union
C) Korea
D) Pakistan
E) Manchuria
Q2) What factors caused Africans to challenge European authority during the Great War?
Q3) Which of the following was NOT one of the foundations of Gandhi's preferred methods for changing or improving the Indian state?
A) an attempt to improve the position of the harijans
B) boycotting British goods
C) heavy industrialization
D) passive resistance
E) economic self-sufficiency
Q4) The leader of the opposition to U.S.Marines occupying Nicaragua in the 1920s was Anastacio Somoza Garcia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 36: New Conflagrations: World War II and the Cold War
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Q1) What steps did the United States take to support the Allies,both in Asia and in Europe,before Pearl Harbor?
Q2) During the early days of the cold war,the USSR and China grew closer because leaders of both nations felt threatened by the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Normandy invasion
A) failed,and Hitler was not able to conquer Britain.
B) allowed Hitler to surprise the French and enter Paris with relative ease.
C) failed because of stiffening Russian resistance and the onset of winter.
D) freed Italy.
E) overwhelmed the Germans and led to the collapse of the German western front.
Q4) World War II began with
A) the assassination of Francis Ferdinand.
B) Japanese attacks on China.
C) a Russian invasion of Poland.
D) the Nazi invasion of Poland.
E) the German takeover of Czechoslovakia.
Q5) What factors led to the defeat of the Axis powers in Europe?
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Q1) The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence was modeled on the A) work of Lenin.
B) Manifesto of the Communist Party.
C) Soviet constitution.
D) Japanese constitution.
E) American Declaration of Independence.
Q2) The disastrous Great Leap Forward was backed by
A) Deng Xiaoping.
B) Kwame Nkrumah.
C) Jomo Kenyatta.
D) Yasser Arafat.
E) Mao Zedong.
Q3) What role did women play in political developments in Nicaragua after 1977? How did AMNLAE affect politics and the status of women there?
Q4) In April 1994,South Africa elected ANC candidate Nelson Mandela as the first black president.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What factors led to the partition of India? What kinds of states emerged?
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Q1) It is estimated that by 2050 the population of the earth will stabilize at around
A) 4.2 billion.
B) 5.7 billion.
C) 9.6 billion.
D) 15.4 billion.
E) 18.9 billion.
Q2) Examine concepts such as Americanization and McDonaldization.How influential is the United States in the world today? Why are some countries frightened by this influence?
Q3) Examine the political and social philosophy of Mikhail Gorbachev.How did he try to bring about changes in the Soviet Union? Did he go too far and too fast?
Q4) What medium has most been used to promote state-building around the world,as it is mostly state-controlled?
A) movies
B) radio
C) blogs
D) the Internet
E) television
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