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Course Introduction
Introduction to World Civilizations explores the development of human societies from ancient times to the modern era, examining the social, political, cultural, and economic factors that shaped civilizations across different regions. The course provides a comparative perspective on major civilizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, analyzing their contributions to global history and the interactions among them through trade, conflict, migration, and cultural exchange. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the complexities and interconnections that have influenced the course of human history, laying a foundation for further study in history and related fields.
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Q1) People at Catalhoyuk traded goods to obtain what material for making knives and jewelry?
A)Flint.
B)Bone.
C)Obsidian.
D)Silver.
E)Marble.
Answer: C
Q2) Monte Verde tools were made out of stone and A)Bone.
B)Wood.
C)Obsidian.
D)Glass.
E)Iron.
Answer: B
Q3) What characteristics distinguished Homo sapiens sapiens from other species?
Answer: In this essay, students should discuss the following key points:
1.Their build and the size of their brains were different
2.They were descendents of mitochondrial Eve
3.They had developed larynxes
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Chapter 2: The First Complex Societies in the Eastern
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Q1) In conquering peoples of many different languages,religions,and traditions over a vast area,Sargon of Akkad developed the world's first
A)Military state ruled by a governor.
B)State ruled by temple priests.
C)Empire.
D)Theocracy.
E)Government with elected officials.
Answer: C
Q2) One of the key Assyrian methods of ruling conquered peoples was to resettle conquered enemy rulers and A)craftsmen.
B)Free the priestly class to show leniency.
C)To adopt local gods as their own.
D)Marry with conquered royal families.
E)Collected texts from conquered cities.
Answer: A
Q3) Describe the geography of Ancient Egypt and how it provided natural barriers to the kingdom in the ancient period.
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Chapter 3: Ancient India and the Rise of Buddhism, 2600
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Q1) The first urban society in India developed in A)The Ganges River Valley.
B)Pataliputra.
C)The Indus River Valley.
D)Mohenjo-Daro.
E)Kalinga.
Answer: C
Q2) Jains believe in all of the following concepts except A)Right faith.
B)Right conduct.
C)Right knowledge.
D)Superiority of human life over other living creatures.
E)Harming no living being.
Answer: D
Q3) Bhagavad Gita
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Q4) Why did the Mauryan empire decline after the death of Ashoka?
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Q5) ?dhows
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Chapter 4: Blueprint for Empire: China, 1200 BCE-
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Q1) Shang and the people of Sanxingdui shared which of the following characteristics?
A)Left abundant written records.
B)Practiced human sacrifice.
C)Lived in walled settlements.
D)Created impressive statues of their kings.
E)None of these choices.
Q2) Confucius
Q3) Oracle Bones
Q4) How did China interact with Vietnam and Choson Korea?
Q5) Liu Bang,formerly a low-ranking official in the Qin dynasty,founded the Han dynasty when he
A)Married into the Zhou dynasty.
B)Rebelled against the second Qin emperor.
C)Became a Confucian master.
D)Conquered Manchuria.
E)Replaced the meritocracy with an aristocracy.
Q6) According to the evidence of the stone tablets the first Qin emperor had placed throughout his state,what was his view of his own realm?
Q7) Mandate of Heaven
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Q1) The peoples of Teotihuacan developed a sophisticated civilization beginning around 200 B.C.E.that was highlighted by which of the following?
A)Large populated urban centers.
B)The use of frescoes.
C)Areas of migrant craftsmen.
D)Complex water-sewage systems.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar uses what kinds of symbols to indicate the different units of time?
A)Numerals.
B)Bars and dots.
C)Celestial symbols.
D)Cross marks.
E)Pictures of birds.
Q3) Andes
Q4) Discuss the several theories that attempt to explain the relationships between the Olmecs,Teothihuacan,and the Maya.
Q5) Moai
Q6) obsidian
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Q1) Mycenaean
Q2) Darius I became king of kings by vigorously defending monarchy and A)Winning a horse race.
B)Assassinating Cyrus.
C)Killing a magi pretender to the throne.
D)Destroying the oligarchical government.
E)Being declared king as son of Cambyses.
Q3) Although the Avesta contains the core teachings of Zoroastrianism,it is also an important source of knowledge about the
A)Era of Persia ruled by Alexander.
B)Achaemenid court.
C)Early history of the migrants to Iran.
D)Relationship of Persia with Mesopotamia.
E)Satrap system.
Q4) Herodotus called his work Historia,meaning "investigation" or A)"Survey."
B)"Speeches."
C)"Interviews."
D)"Study."
E)"Inquiry."
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Q1) In 325 Constantine called a church council at Nicaea to settle a dispute over
A)The basic Christian creed.
B)The birth date of Jesus.
C)Role of the emperor in the church.
D)Whether women could be deacons.
E)The Christian canons.
Q2) Hannibal's army started in ____ and marched toward Italy.
A)Carthage.
B)Spain.
C)Gaul.
D)Greece.
E)Sicily.
Q3) What was typical about the marriage of Pliny the Younger to his third wife Calpurnia?
A)Her dowry was substantial.
B)She was literate.
C)They had no affection for one another.
D)She was much younger.
E)They had many children.
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Q4) How did the character of the army change during the later years of the Republic?
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Q1) Because of the weakness in the Tang Dynasty,Songsten Gampo of Tibet was able to acquire
A)the process of making silk.
B)the art of paper making.
C)knowledge on brewing wine.
D)knowledgeable Chinese scholars.
E)All of these choices.
Q2) Seven Treasures
Q3) Discuss how Buddhism spread to Korea.
Q4) Using Fotudeng as an example,explain how Buddhism won the first Chinese converts.
Q5) Srivijaya
Q6) Taizong made Confucianism the basis of education and incorporated it into the government through
A)funding Confucian missionaries.
B)requiring all taxpayers to be Confucian.
C)the examination system.
D)requiring all families to send the youngest son to Confucian school.
E)paying non-Confucian officials one-half the salary of a Confucian official.
Q7) Bodhisattvas Page 10
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Chapter 9: Islamic Empires of Western Asia and Africa, 600 - 1258
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Q1) jihad
Q2) Abbasid caliphate
Q3) What was the capital of the Umayyad dynasty?
A)Damascus.
B)Mecca.
C)Baghdad.
D)Cairo.
E)Medina.
Q4) Baghdad under the Abbasids including the first manufacturing of what item?
A)Paper.
B)Silk.
C)Porcelain.
D)Steel.
E)Astrolabes.
Q5) Zubaydah's Road
Q6) Sunni
Q7) Translation Movement
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Q8) Like the Roman and Persian Empires,discuss how Islamic society lived on even after its decline and eventual end.
Q9) Discuss the importance of the translation movement.
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Q1) Carolingians
Q2) war-bands
Q3) Gregory of Tours recounted an incident involving Clovis that illustrates which of the following?
A)War-bands attacked churches for their treasures.
B)The equitable distribution of booty with Clovis and his men.
C)Clovis often had to make decisions based on the approval of his war members.
D)By destroying the vase,a member of Clovis's band had challenged his place as a ruler and had to be punished.
E)All of these choices.
Q4) Merovingian bishops came from what area of society?
A)Court officials.
B)Important lay families.
C)Former priests and monks.
D)Monastery abbots.
E)All of these choices.
Q5) patriarch
Q6) Anglo-Saxons
Q7) Rus
Q8) Principality of Kiev
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Chapter 11: Expanding Trade Networks in Africa and India,
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Q1) The Delhi Sultanate
A)was founded by former Turkish military slaves from Central Asia.
B)was created when Mamluks from Syria conquered southern India.
C)established its capital at Calcutta.
D)was the first Islamic dynasty in South Asia.
E)was reestablished after the defeat of Muhammad Tughluq.
Q2) Discuss the methods of iron smelting used by the sub-Saharan peoples and what advantages they had from their techniques and equipment.
Q3) sharia
Q4) Who,between the eighth and sixteenth century,were the first to record preliminary notes and continued to predominate the telling of history about the sub-Saharan area?
A)Buddhist missionaries.
B)Egyptians.
C)Phoenicians.
D)Nubians.
E)Arab geographers.
Q5) Ghana
Q6) Great Zimbabwe
Q7) Sufi
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Chapter 12: Chinas Commercial Revolution, ca900 - 1276
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Q1) Zhu Xi,the founder of the White Deer Academy in 1181,emphasized Neo-Confucianism and the use of
A)A Record of the Dream.
B)The Four Books.
C)The Three Character Classic.
D)Daodejing.
E)Description of Foreign Peoples.
Q2) The epitaphs of women of the twelfth century praised which of the following?
A)education of children.
B)knowledge of math.
C)management of household finances.
D)preservation and expanding a family's wealth.
E)all of these choices
Q3) Which of the following are true of the Jurchen?
A)they were based in Manchuria.
B)they spoke an Altaic language.
C)they allied with the Song to defeat the Khitan.
D)they married into the Song Dynasty.
E)all of these choices
Q4) Discuss the growth of civil service examinations in Song China.
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Chapter 13: Europes Commercial Revolution, 1000 - 1400
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Q1) In addition to using iron for plows,farmers after 1000 realized that it also helped to use iron for plow blades and A)sickles.
B)horse shoes.
C)baskets.
D)sign posts.
E)carts.
Q2) Abelard spent his first few years teaching at Notre Dame until A)he left for the Crusades.
B)he left with his student Heloise when she became pregnant.
C)he left for a monastery to become a hermit.
D)he asked for Heloise's hand in marriage from her father Fulbert.
E)None of these choices.
Q3) Cistercians
Q4) Agricultural changes in Europe
A)were introduced by the Franks. B)were the result of the plague.
C)did not all occur at the same time throughout Europe. D)were related to the Viking raids. E)were introduced by the Muslims.
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Chapter 14: The Mongols and Their Successors, 1200 - 1500
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Q1) darughachi
Q2) What happened to Chinggis Khan's father when Chinggis was only 9 years old?
A)Exiled to China.
B)Died in battle.
C)Poisoned by a rival.
D)Disappeared traveling to Constantinople.
E)No one knows;his father is unknown.
Q3) Why are the writings of William of Rubruck (ca.1215-ca. 1295)of such importance to modern-day scholars?
A)Mongols did not have a writing system.
B)They contain detailed,accurate descriptions of Mongolian life and provide an example of cultural exchange.
C)Rubruck wrote of his experiences as a lifelong prisoner of the Mongols.
D)All Mongolian histories have been destroyed by Christians and Muslims.
E)Mongolian texts involve only lists and records.
Q4) Zheng He expeditions
Q5) William of Rubruck
Q6) Il-Khanate
Q7) How did Chinggis Khan's early life help to forge him into the great leader he became?
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Q1) Inca Empire
Q2) Inca rulers were chosen by
A)a tanistry-type system.
B)the sun god priest.
C)being the eldest son.
D)a council of important members from the mother's side.
E)a council of important members from the father's side.
Q3) Why was Malinché crucial to Cortés in his conquest of Mexico?
A)She was given to Cortés as a gift and became an important advisor.
B)She was a former Nahua noblewoman,brought up among the Mayan.
C)Knowing Nahuatl,Mayan,and Spanish,she acted as an interpreter.
D)She held the respect of the Nahua peoples.
E)All of these.
Q4) Before his voyage to the Americas,Columbus believed that he could sail west from Iberia and reach what destination directly?
A)China.
B)India.
C)Japan.
D)Caribbean.
E)Australia
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Q1) Which of the following was a cause for the Dutch to become the predominant commercial power in South Asia?
A)Used force to secure profits.
B)Introduced modern business practices.
C)Developed administrative techniques.
D)Advance in ship design and construction.
E)All of the answers are correct.
Q2) After rounding the Cape of Good Hope,Vasco de Gama sailed toward A)Brazil.
B)India.
C)Portugal.
D)Japan.
E)Safavid Iran.
Q3) What was the overall effect of the slave trade?
A)Allowed the production of sugar to increase.
B)Never altered the traditional trade in foreign goods in Southeast Asia.
C)Had a major effect on the overall population of African population.
D)Made little change between African-European interactions.
E)Stopped the usual African incidents of warfare among tribes.
Q4) Matteo Ricci
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Chapter 17: Religion, politics, and the Balance of Power in Western
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Q1) Despite their reluctant to favor anything European or Christian,the Safavids did cultivate a relationship with them against which empire?
A)Russians.
B)Sudanese.
C)Spanish.
D)Chinese.
E)Ottomans.
Q2) Peter the Great (r.1685-1725)sought to modernize Russia by orienting the empire toward
A)Western Europe.
B)Byzantine.
C)Safavids.
D)China.
E)Central Asian Steppes.
Q3) The Ottoman capital was located in A)Constantinople.
B)Alexandria.
C)Susa.
D)Bursa.
E)Ankara.
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Chapter 18: Empires, colonies, and Peoples of the
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Q1) Virgin of Guadalupe
Q2) Quebec
Q3) Potosi
Q4) Why was Sor Juana forced to sell her library of 4,000 books in 1694,one year before she died of plague?
A)Church leaders objected to her writing.
B)She needed money to return to Spain.
C)She needed money for a dowry.
D)The books were infected with smallpox.
E)She went blind and could no longer read them.
Q5) Discuss the challenge the Catholic Church encountered in the Americas.
Q6) Mita
Q7) Quilombos
Q8) Politically,why were the New England colonies difficult for England to control?
Q9) Encomienda
Q10) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
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Q13) Purity of the Blood
Q14) Viceroyalty?
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Chapter 19: The Atlantic System: Africa, the Americas, and
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Q1) Population growth was a general pattern throughout the world at this time.Compare this to the slave population numbers of the Americas,as well as that of Africa.
Q2) What was the effect of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Dahomey Kingdom and its border neighbors?
Q3) A major fishing area for fishermen from New England,as well as Europe,was the Grand Banks found off the coast of
A)Newfoundland.
B)Cape Cod.
C)Boston.
D)Maine.
E)Greenland.
Q4) Before the intense involvement with Europeans,most African policies relied nearly universally on what type of system as a foundation for decision making?
A)Clan elders.
B)Military power.
C)Wealth.
D)Democracy.
E)Monarchies.
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Chapter 20: Empires in Early Modern Asia, 1650 - 1818
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Q1) Who did the Russians describe as the "small people of the north"?
A)Cossacks.
B)Siberians.
C)Chinese.
D)Tibetans.
E)Koreans.
Q2) Yongzheng
Q3) Yoshimune
Q4) How did the Qing deal with foreign relations?
Q5) Qing Dynasty
Q6) The British acquisition of India,as a part of the British Empire,led to many areas of cultural exchange.One area involved the field of law and was expressed as legal pluralism.Discuss this process.
Q7) Which of the following is a characteristic of Japan after the sixteenth century?
A)Practiced a degree of isolationism.
B)Was not a tributary of any nation.
C)All of the answers are correct.
D)Was not subject to any foreign power.
E)Developed its own distinctive political,economic,and cultural systems.
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Q8) Kowtow
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Chapter 21: European Science and the Foundations of
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Q1) Mary Wollstonecraft
Q2) Voltaire and his novel Candide emphasized which the following?
A)becoming aware of all the superstitions,prejudices,and follies in society.
B)reasoning makes all phenomena and situations intelligible.
C)the ability to see oneself in a wider context is an important component of enlightened thinking.
D)organized religion is a hindrance to free and rational inquiry.
E)all of the answers are correct.
Q3) Captain Cook was killed as a result of a cultural communication confusion in A)Hawaii.
B)Alaska.
C)Tahiti.
D)the Arctic.
E)Australia.
Q4) Problem of Longitude
Q5) Carl Linnaeus
Q6) Thomas Hobbes
Q7) John Locke
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Q8) In what ways were the bourgeoisie associated with the Enlightenment and New Science?
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Chapter 22: Revolutions in the West, 1750 - 1830
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Q3) How was Simon Bolivar's Latin American independence movement closely tied to events in Europe?
Q4) In what year did Bolívar drive the Spanish out of Peru,fulfilling an oath he made in Rome?
A)1800.
B)1812.
C)1824.
D)1850.
E)1875.
Q5) How did the Haitian Revolution develop in the long term?
Q6) American advantages during the war included A)women.
B)rural populations.
C)all of the answers are correct.
D)George Washington.
E)the French.
Q7) Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Q8) Declaration of Independence
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Chapter 23: The Industrial Revolution and European Politics,
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Q1) Which of the following statements reflects the problems facing Italian nationalism?
A)The north was an industrialized and urbanized area,similar to Western Europe.
B)Because of internal divisions,conservatives were able to stifle any unification attempts.
C)The south was mainly agricultural and rural in character.
D)All the answers are correct.
E)Dialects made it difficult for Italians to understand each other.
Q2) Otto von Bismarck
Q3) Queen Victoria
Q4) Italy was unified in 1870 under a/an ____ system of government.
A)theocratic
B)autocratic monarchy
C)Garibaldi dictatorship
D)constitutional monarchy
E)papal-controlled
Q5) Elaborate on the evolution of the textile industry into the factory system.
Q6) Mikhail Bakunin
Q7) Liberalism
Q8) Emancipation Edict
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Chapter 24: China, japan, and India Confront the Modern
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Q1) Qing
Q2) In an attempt to save China from Western domination,Chinese reformers
A)scoffed at the use of mathematics to save China.
B)refused to accept those foreign principles that might undercut the influence of the scholarly elite.
C)based their training on a long traditional body of knowledge.
D)rebuilt the ruined summer palace.
E)translated foreign scientific texts into Chinese.
Q3) Meiji Restoration
Q4) What country was involved in the partition of China?
A)England.
B)France.
C)Japan.
D)All of the answers are correct.
E)The United States.
Q5) Mughals
Q6) Extraterritoriality
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Q7) How was Britain gradually able to control India?
Q9) Toshiko Kishida
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Chapter 25: State Building and Social Change in the
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Q1) Louis Riel
Q2) By 1893 the most rapidly growing city in the Americas was
A)New York.
B)Chicago.
C)San Francisco.
D)Boston.
E)St.Louis.
Q3) What was the result of the Indian Removal Act?
A)Forced migration of southeastern US Amerindians and the Trail of Tears.
B)The Cherokee Constitution.
C)Indian uprisings in the Ohio and Great Lakes regions.
D)Attacks on the Florida Seminoles.
E)Creation of Indian reservations in America's southeast.
Q4) Which of the following statements is true?
A)An improved railroad system gave the Mexican government increased power over much of Mexico.
B)All of the answers are correct.
C)Foreign investors were recruited to stimulate the economy through investments.
D)Large estates became successful commercialized agricultural ventures.
E)Mexican liberal economic change was combined with authoritarian rule.
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Chapter 26: The New Imperialism in Africa and Southeast
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Q1) The most serious resistance to the British in Sudan in the 1880s was led by A)Muhammad Ahmad.
B)Mohammad Ali.
C)Belgian troops allied with Egypt.
D)Bangwato.
E)French and German troops in Sudan.
Q2) Jihad
Q3) Although a new nation in a world of powerful nations,discuss America's entrance onto the imperial stage.
Q4) King Khama III
Q5) Which of the following is related to Ethiopia's success in keeping its independence and sovereignty?
A)The defeat of Italy at the Battle of Adowa.
B)All of the answers are correct.
C)The successful leadership of Menelik.
D)As a Christian nation,its ability to broker between European powers.
E)Ethiopia's development of a modern and well-equipped military.
Q6) Describe the New Imperialism that began in the 1870s across much of Africa.
Q7) Singapore
Q8) "Informal Empire"
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Chapter 27: War, revolution, and Global Uncertainty, 19051928
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Q2) With the acquisition of German East Africa,England controlled ____ from Cape Town to Cairo.
A)the entire west coast of Africa
B)all of the former German colonies
C)Muslim Africa
D)half of Africa
E)the entire east coast of Africa
Q3) Soviets
Q4) Which of the following is true in describing the Battle of Gallipoli?
A)All of the answers are correct.
B)The alliance with Germany was an Ottoman effort to avoid losing important straits that connected the Black and Mediterranean Seas.
C)British forces met harsh resistance at Gallipoli and eventually withdrew after 250,000 casualties.
D)Gallipoli was part of the Southern Front,in the Middle East and North Africa.
E)Gallipoli was important to the Ottomans,who feared Russian and British expansion into the area.
Q5) Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Chapter 28: Responses to Global Crisis, 1920 - 1939
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Q1) Soviet collectivization was a reform policy of Stalin that
A)was exactly opposite to the land policy of Lenin.
B)moved populations to new industrial areas.
C)was supposed to increase industrial output.
D)would use farmland for cash crops.
E)created a large military force.
Q2) Which of the following is associated with the support for changes in Japan's government after the market collapse of 1929?
A)A new emperor,whose role was ceremonial,took the throne.
B)The power and influence of the zaibatsu in the government.
C)Increased power of civil service bureaucrats.
D)The requirement that an active military officer serve as Minister of Defense.
E)All of the answers are correct.
Q3) In Edib's book,Inside India,emphasis is placed on
A)judging the future by travels in Russia.
B)speculating how Turkey will be able to regain the glories of the Ottoman Empire.
C)India's attempt to restore the Moghul dynasty.
D)judging the future by travels to America.
E)how much must one see to determine the workings of history.
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Chapter 29: The Second World War and the Origins of the
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Q2) The effects of World War II reached
A)North and South America.
B)Europe and Asia.
C)The Pacific region.
D)All of the answers are correct.
E)Africa.
Q3) What was the Arab-British relationship during World War II?
A)Iraqi anti-British feelings led Iraq to publicly declare its sympathy for the Axis.
B)Upon hearing of the Jewish situation in Europe,Palestine opened its doors to Jewish immigrants.
C)Egypt,seeking independence,made an alliance with Italy.
D)British troops attacked and burned government buildings in Cairo and Baghdad
E)Egypt,fearing invasion,requested a British alliance.
Q4) CIA
Q5) Al Alamein
Q6) Berlin
Q7) Charles de Gaulle
Q8) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Q1) Jawaharial Nehru
Q2) The partition of ____ from India into two independent states in 1947 was mainly the result of divisions between Hindu and Muslim factions.
A)Nepal
B)Tibet
C)Afghanistan
D)Pakistan
E)Bhutan
Q3) The official U.S.policy towards the Soviet Union by the 1950s was
A)appeasement.
B)containment.
C)cooperation.
D)ignore.
E)military intervention.
Q4) Decolonization
Q5) Iron Curtain
Q6) Jomo Kenyatta
Q7) Rhodesia
Q8) Cold War
Q9) Belgian Congo
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Chapter 31: Toward a New World Order, 1975 - 2000
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Q1) Which of the following is true in relation to the Rwandan genocide of 1994?
A)Earlier Belgian colonial powers favored Tutsi tribes.
B)After independence,the previously disenfranchised Hutu took power.
C)All of the answers are correct.
D)After the death of the Huto president,Hutu extremists unleashed genocidal attacks on the Tutsi.
E)Neighboring African counties added to the slaughter by becoming involved in both sides.
Q2) Using specific examples,why was the transition to liberal governance and a market economy smoother in Eastern Europe than in Russia and Central Asia?
Q3) After years of apartheid,how did black South Africans finally destroy the system and create a democracy in South Africa?
Q4) Maastricht Treaty
Q5) George H.W.Bush
Q6) Structural Adjustment
Q7) Perestroika
Q8) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Q9) Mujahaddin
Q10) Lech Walesa
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Chapter 32: Voyage Into the Twenty-First Century
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Q2) Ai Weiwei's innovative design contributions to this project helped the People's Republic make a strong impression on world opinion in 2008.
A)The longest bridge.
B)The largest ice sculpture.
C)The tallest building in Hong Kong.
D)The Grand Canal.
E)The Beijing National Stadium.
Q3) When HIV/AIDS was first identified it was most closely associated with which two groups?
A)war veterans and children.
B)homosexual men and intravenous drug users.
C)alcoholics and drug users.
D)the handicapped and the elderly.
E)flu and cancer sufferers.
Q4) India is considered one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.In many ways,India has one foot in the modern world and the other foot in its near and far past.Discuss this statement.
Q5) Muhammad Yusuf
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