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This course explores the development of Western Civilization from its ancient origins to the modern era, examining significant political, cultural, social, intellectual, and economic transformations. Students will investigate key events, influential figures, and major movements that have shaped the Western world, including the legacy of Greece and Rome, the rise of Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment, revolutions, industrialization, and the rise of democratic institutions. Emphasis is placed on understanding the foundations of Western thought and values, and their impact on contemporary society.
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Connections A World History Combined 2nd Edition by Edward
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Chapter 1: The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000 Bce
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Q1) Which of these was NOT a product of slash and burn agriculture?
A) greater immediate soil fertility
B) permanent settlements
C) improved crop outputs
D) eventual soil exhaustion
Answer: B
Q2) How does the maturation process of humans differ from that of other mammals?
A) It is shorter.
B) It is longer.
C) It occurs with relatively little nurturing.
D) The need for supervision is surprisingly low.
Answer: B
Q3) Which of these was NOT an innovation of the Paleolithic period?
A) farming
B) hunting in groups
C) communication
D) social groups
Answer: A
Q4) Where did agriculture first begin?
Answer: the Fertile Crescent
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Q1) Which empire conquered and brought an end to the Chaldean Empire?
A) Assyrians
B) Persians
C) Hittites
D) Egyptians
Answer: B
Q2) In most cultures today, it is customary for the bride's family to pay for the wedding. This custom has roots in the ancient practice of
A) the bride's family choosing the groom.
B) the groom's family arranging the marriage.
C) the bride's family supplying the dowry.
D) the bride's family walking her down the aisle.
Answer: C
Q3) The city of Nineveh was part of which ancient civilization?
A) Sumerians
B) Assyrians
C) Akkadians
D) Persians
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Societies and Beliefs of Early India, to 500 Ce
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Q1) Which of these was NOT a shared trait of early Harappan and Mesopotamian civilizations?
A) brick-walled cities
B) cuneiform
C) raised citadels
D) origins along a major river
Answer: B
Q2) In the Hindu caste system, the Brahmins were
A) merchants.
B) priests.
C) peasants.
D) warriors.
Answer: B
Q3) Which of the following does NOT apply to the bodhisattvas?
A) They had already gained enlightenment.
B) Having achieved nirvana, they refused to help others.
C) They were saintly figures.
D) They were revered by Mahayana Buddhists.
Answer: B
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Q1) Evaluate the role of women in Han society.
Q2) Which dynasty did the First Emperor rule?
A) Xia
B) Shang
C) Zhou
D) Qin
Q3) If a ruler has the Mandate of Heaven, which of these does he have the right to do?
A) rule justly and humanely
B) ignore the will of the gods
C) oppress the people
D) go against the Confucian code
Q4) How did developments in ironworking bring change to China?
Q5) How is the Chinese system of writing related to the dialects of Chinese?
A) The writing system varies considerably among the different dialects.
B) The same symbols are used regardless of dialect, providing a single written language.
C) Each dialect has a unique set of symbols as its writing system.
D) All of China has one written and spoken language, with only minor dialectical differences.
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Chapter 5: Early American Societies: Connection and
Isolation, 20,000 Bce - 1500 Ce
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Q1) Where is the Great Serpent Mound located?
A) Mexico City
B) Peru
C) Pennsylvania
D) Ohio
Q2) How did Knosorov's research affect current theories regarding Mayan writing?
A) He realized that Mayan writing was phonetic.
B) He realized that the Mayan writing system was actually begun by the Toltec.
C) He realized that Mayan writing was hieroglyphic.
D) He realized that most Mayan writing centered on religion.
Q3) The preinvasion Eskimos never developed complex societies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How could Mayan slaves obtain freedom?
Q5) Who were the moundbuilders of the Ohio River valley?
A) Powhatan
B) Adena-Hopewell
C) Natchez
D) Choctaw
Q6) Discuss the technological advancements of the Mesoamerican civilizations. Page 7
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Bce - 637 Ce
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Q1) The Parthian empire encompassed much of the territory of what earlier empire?
A) Sasanian
B) Persian
C) Mauryan
D) Assyrian
Q2) The defeat of which group brought the Persians and Greeks into contact?
A) Egyptians
B) Medes
C) Lydians
D) Ethiopians
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Farsi?
A) It possesses a thirty-six-character alphabet.
B) It has a rich vocabulary.
C) It possesses an intricate grammatical structure.
D) It was recorded on clay tablets.
Q4) Evaluate the name "Cyrus the Great." Does he deserve that title? Why or why not?
Q5) According to Zoroaster, who was Ahura Mazda's malignant twin?
Q6) Cyrus the Great allowed the Jews to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem.
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Chapter 7: Classical Greece and Its Expansion Into Asia,
2000-30 Bce
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Q1) Which of these led Plato to distrust Athenian democracy?
A) the Persian Wars
B) the Delian League
C) the Peloponnesian War
D) the conquests of Alexander
Q2) Which man used a philosophical method that consisted of asking questions?
A) Plato
B) Sophocles
C) Aristotle
D) Socrates
Q3) What is known as the "suicide of Greece"?
A) the Persian Wars
B) Athenian dominance in the region
C) the Peloponnesian War
D) the unification of the Greek city-states
Q4) Communication was difficult in Ancient Greece because of A) geographical barriers.
B) religious differences.
C) language differences.
D) political regulations.
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Chapter 8: The Romans Connect the Mediterranean World,
753 Bce - 284 Ce
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Q1) Why did Roman rulers distrust Christians?
A) on theological grounds
B) on economic grounds
C) out of concern for law and order
D) because of omens taken by Nero
Q2) How does the legend of Romulus and Remus reflect the Romans' self-image?
Q3) Caesar did all of the following EXCEPT
A) study rhetoric in Greece.
B) provide an opportunity for the poor to own land.
C) revise the Roman calendar.
D) retire from power after restoring the Republic.
Q4) What title was taken by Sulla, effectively ending the Roman Republic?
Q5) Which war was won by Rome only after they built ships with gangplanks?
A) the First Punic War
B) the Second Punic War
C) the Third Punic War
D) the First Civil War
Q6) Discuss the Roman judicial system.
Q7) Who were Caesarion's parents?
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Q8) Which man is credited with transforming Christianity into a major religion?
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Chapter 9: Germanic Societies and the Emergence of the
Christian West, 100-1100 Ce
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Q1) Attila was much more brutal than most warriors of his day.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which man divided the Roman Empire into two parts after concluding that it was too big for one man to rule alone?
A) Diocletian
B) Constantine
C) Justinian
D) Nero
Q3) Until the Turks took Constantinople in 1453, what title did the ruler there still claim?
A) Byzantine emperor
B) King of Turkey
C) King of Byzantium
D) Roman emperor
Q4) Which of these was pushed into the Balkans, threatening the eastern empire?
A) Visigoths
B) Vandals
C) Ostrogoths
D) Franks
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Chapter 10: The Byzantine World, 284-1240
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Q1) What compelled the wave of iconoclasm in the 720s?
A) the Bubonic Plague
B) Muslim attacks
C) famine
D) the death of the emperor
Q2) At the Council of Nicaea, False beliefs contrary to Church doctrine were declared
A) orthodoxy.
B) caesaropapism.
C) heresy.
D) novelties.
Q3) Which of the following doctrines best states Arius's beliefs?
A) Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one.
B) The bishop of Rome has the authority over the church.
C) God created Christ out of nothing.
D) The Blessed Trinity is composed of three coequal persons.
Q4) Why did Kievan Rus and later Russian states turn towards Constantinople? Was this direction inevitable?
Q5) Evaluate the contributions of Justinian to western civilization.
Q6) Evaluate the effects of Byzantine Christianity on Kievan society.
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Chapter 11: The Origins and Expansion of Islam, 100-750
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Q1) The caliph delegated authority to his representatives known as A) emirs.
B) ummas.
C) clerics.
D) imams.
Q2) Nearly all Meccan merchants initially rejected Muhammad's message.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How many rivers are in the Arabian Peninsula?
A) zero
B) one
C) two
D) four
Q4) Muslims believe that the world is divided between the House of Faith and the House of Disbelief.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How is the Qur'an organized?
Q6) Who defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours?
Q7) Discuss the conflict within Islam after the death of Muhammad.
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Chapter 12: Religion and Diversity in the Transformation of
Southern Asia, 711-1400
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Q1) Which of the following men translated and wrote commentaries on the Greek philosopher Aristotle?
A) Ibn Sina
B) Al-Khwarizmi
C) Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
D) Ibn al-Haytham
Q2) Which practice, required by Muhammad of all believers, helped develop unity and cohesion among all Muslims?
A) standard Sabbath prayers
B) adoption of the Persian language throughout the empire
C) pilgrimage to Mecca
D) purification of the umma
Q3) Who ruled in the golden age of learning in Baghdad?
A) Muawiya
B) Harun al-Rashid
C) Salah al-Din
D) Umar
Q4) What religion were the majority of Indians during the Delhi Sultanate?
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Q5) Discuss the revival of learning that took place in the Islamic world during and after the reign of Harun al-Rashid
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Chapter 13: Early African Societies, 1500 Bce-1500 Ce
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Q1) Which of these was introduced across Africa by the Bantu peoples?
A) farming
B) Islam
C) ironworking
D) herding
Q2) African history is often interpreted through the eyes of foreigners because
A) Africa has always been under the domination of foreigners.
B) Africa had no written records prior to the coming of Islam.
C) African natives have never shared their earliest history with outsiders.
D) early African writing systems have yet to be deciphered.
Q3) In the Sudan, what commodity is a major status symbol?
Q4) Kongo was the first centralized Bantu kingdom in Central Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Islamic expansion into Africa.
Q6) Which of these spurred the amirs of al-Andalus to claim the title caliph?
A) foundation of the Abbasid dynasty
B) the creation of Fatimid Egypt
C) the fall of Constantinople
D) the advent of the Ottoman Turks
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Chapter 14: The Evolution and Expansion of East Asian
Societies, 220-1240 Ce
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Q1) Shinto is a religion indigenous to Japan.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast early Confucianism and neo-Confucianism.
Q3) Buddhism teaches that one can avoid life's pain and suffering by
A) strictly following one's dharma.
B) curbing desire and living righteously.
C) renouncing meditation in favor of memorization of the Eightfold Way.
D) avoiding all meat and dairy products.
Q4) Yangdi did all of the following EXCEPT
A) impose harsh taxes.
B) complete the Grand Canal.
C) launch a series of disastrous wars.
D) strengthen the Sui dynasty.
Q5) Which dynasty exerted its influence over Turkestan?
Q6) Which of the following most accurately maps the spread of Buddhism in East Asia?
A) India to China to Korea and Japan
B) China to India to Japan and Korea
C) India to Japan to China to Korea
D) India to Korea to Japan to China
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Chapter 15: Nomadic Conquests and Eurasian
Connections, 1000-1400
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Q1) Zhu Yuanzhang was a poor peasant who led China in defeated the Mongols.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these cities gained in prominence as a result of the conquests of Batu Khan?
A) Kiev
B) Baghdad
C) Moscow
D) Tabriz
Q3) The assassination of Nizam al-Mulk and the death of Malik Shah caused a(n)
A) civil war in China.
B) succession crisis in China.
C) succession crisis in the Seljuk realm.
D) assassination of the Mongol leader.
Q4) The Great Seljuk Empire was consolidated and expanded by A) Genghis Khan.
B) Khubilai Khan.
C) Sultan Alp Arslan.
D) Shi'ite warlords.
Q5) What was the goal of the "Old Man of the Mountain"?
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Chapter 16: The Resurgence of the Christian West, 1050-1530
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Q1) Discuss the exaltation of women during the resurgence of the West.
Q2) Michelangelo's David was created to symbolize
A) the beauty of the male physique.
B) God's creation of man.
C) Florence's resistance to tyranny.
D) Christendom's victory over the Muslims.
Q3) Who created the breathtaking Pieta?
Q4) Gothic architecture was primarily secular.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of these gained most from the Crusades?
A) the papacy
B) Italian merchants
C) Byzantine emperors
D) German kings
Q6) Which of the following factors led to the Great Western Schism?
A) The pope refused to accept the authority of the king.
B) Disputed papal elections.
C) The king had the pope kidnapped.
D) The loss of the Holy Land.
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Chapter 17: Culture and Conflict in the Great Islamic
Empires, 1071-1707
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Q1) The rulers of northern India were known as A) caliphs.
B) Delhi sultans.
C) satraps.
D) rajahs.
Q2) Which man finally defeated the Mamluks in Egypt?
Q3) Compare and contrast the reign of Akbar and the reign of Aurangzeb.
Q4) Akbar was unpopular with some Muslims because he A) refused to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
B) condemned both Shi'ites and Sunnis.
C) was tolerant of other religions.
D) converted to Christianity.
Q5) Muslim seers predicted glorious victories for Suleiman because A) he was born with a birthmark that looked like a sword.
B) he was the son of Selim the Magnificent.
C) he was the tenth Ottoman sultan.
D) his name means "great warrior."
Q6) Timur Lenk took over all of the land once owned by the Mongols.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The Aztec and Inca Empires, 1300-1550
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Q1) The Aztecs called themselves
A) Mexica.
B) Texcoco.
C) Chinampa.
D) Tlaloc.
Q2) Humans were sacrificed regularly in Aztec society because they believed
A) the gods required blood as an offering.
B) foreigners were devils, so they sacrificed them.
C) the sun could be sustained only through repeated offerings of beating human hearts.
D) the gods would bless their crops only in exchange for the sacrifice of a virgin.
Q3) Aztec legend stated that women who died in childbirth were reborn as A) goddesses.
B) hummingbirds.
C) cobras.
D) white women.
Q4) How did Montezuma II die?
Q5) Evaluate the factors which led to Spanish victory over the Aztecs.
Q6) How did isolation impact the Amerind response to the arrival of the Spanish?
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Chapter 19: Global Exploration and Global Empires, 1400-1700
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Q1) The man who finally unified Spain later became the Holy Roman Emperor.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mestizos were people of mixed descent who were considered socially below European-born whites.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of these later became the Iroquois Confederacy?
A) the Seneca
B) the League of Five Nations
C) the tribes of the lower Mississippi valley
D) the Puebloan peoples
Q4) Spain's two most significant kingdoms during the Reconquista were
A) Andalusia and Asturias.
B) Iberia and Portugal.
C) Aragon and Castile.
D) Catalonia and Valencia.
Q5) Discuss the flow of commerce in the Portuguese empire.
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Chapter 20: The West in an Age of Religious Conflict and Global Expansion, 1500-1650
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Q1) What is the significance of the Edict of Nantes?
A) It made Catholicism the official religion of France.
B) It granted freedom of worship and civil rights to French Protestants.
C) It ended the Thirty Years War in the Holy Roman Empire.
D) It made Catholicism the official religion of the Holy Roman Empire.
Q2) Which man spread Calvinist doctrine to Scotland?
A) John Wyclif
B) Huldrych Zwingli
C) Thomas Cranmer
D) John Knox
Q3) What was the practice of simony?
Q4) The most important Catholic sacraments were baptism, the Eucharist and A) penance.
B) last rites.
C) matrimony.
D) ordination.
Q5) Discuss the corruption of the Church evident prior to the Reformation.
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Q6) Discuss the changes in the Catholic Church brought about by the Counter Reformation or Catholic Reformation.
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Chapter 21: The Search for Stability in East Asia, 1300-1800
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Q2) The British gained a strong presence in Vietnam. A)True
B)False
Q3) Who moved the Chinese capital to Beijing?
Q4) The White Lotus Society promised the return of Christ. A)True
B)False
Q5) China's Confucian scholar-bureaucrats were known by westerners as A) eunuchs.
B) mandarins.
C) Confucians.
D) samurai.
Q6) The Confucian virtue of "ren" was equated with Christianity's emphasis on A) piety.
B) chastity.
C) honesty.
D) compassion.
Q7) Discuss China's commerce and economy during the decline of the Ming.
Q8) Which man carried on the work of Nurhachi after his death?
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Chapter 22: Southern Asia and the Global Shift in Wealth and
Power, 1500-1800
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Q1) Who were the nawabs?
Q2) What was the influence of Portuguese conquerors on Islam in Southeast Asia?
A) Most Muslims embraced Sufism.
B) Islam spread and grew in strength.
C) Islam all but disappeared.
D) Islam merged with local pantheism.
Q3) Russia established supremacy in Eastern Europe after its victory over A) Finland.
B) Prussia.
C) Sweden.
D) Britain.
Q4) Safi sequestered all of the royal princes to
A) keep them safe from harm by ambitious generals.
B) keep them safe from harm by the Turks.
C) train them in the ways of the court.
D) minimize the possibility of the brothers fighting each other for the throne.
Q5) Who was the leader of the British forces at Plassey?
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Chapter 23: Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1400-1800
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Q1) Discuss the reign of King Afonso I.
Q2) Njinga of Ndongo did all of the following EXCEPT
A) engage in the slave trade.
B) forge an alliance with the Portuguese.
C) dress as a man.
D) command her armies in combat.
Q3) Discuss Portugal's role in the Atlantic slave trade.
Q4) In the Middle East, a slave could hope to become free by converting to Islam.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the relationship of Kanem-Bornu to Songhai?
A) Kanem-Bornu conquered Songhai.
B) Kanem-Bornu replaced Songhai in the trans-Saharan trade.
C) Songhai overran Kanem-Bornu, taking most of its territory.
D) Kanem-Bornu and Songhai rose and fell at about the same time.
Q6) The European visitors who first arrived in West Africa did not come to purchase slaves.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Evaluate the effects of the slave trade on the African family unit.
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Chapter 24: Absolutism and Enlightenment in Europe, 1600-1763
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Q1) The position of prime minister of Britain emerged during the English Civil War.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Prussia had a strong middle class made up of urban professionals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the major difference between absolutism in Prussia and France?
A) Prussia had an elective monarchy; French monarchs inherited the throne.
B) French absolutism included a partnership between the king and the nobility; Prussian absolutism did not.
C) French absolutism relied on a powerful army; Prussia was a less militarized state.
D) Prussia promoted economic development; France did not.
Q4) In 1653, Oliver Cromwell
A) was crowned king.
B) invited Charles II to return to the throne.
C) retired and turned power over to Parliament.
D)became a dictator known as the Lord Protector.
Q5) Discuss the English Civil War including the causes and effects of this conflict.
Q6) Which man said, "I think; therefore, I am"?
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Chapter 25: Russias Eurasian Empire: Convergence of East and
West, 1300-1800
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Q1) Which of these describes Elizabeth I's attitude towards the work of Peter I?
A) She continued his religious but not his political reforms.
B) She continued and furthered his westernizing reforms.
C) She allowed his plans to lapse.
D) She reversed most of his policies.
Q2) Siberia's name originated from the Mongol term meaning
A) frozen land.
B) sleeping land.
C) devil's land.
D) dark land.
Q3) What was Catherine's Nakaz?
A) her secret police
B) a treatise on governing that spoke of liberty and equality
C) a treatise on governing that advocated absolutism
D) a harem of men who followed her from place to place
Q4) Peter the Great traveled incognito to western European nations as part of his plan to westernize and modernize Russia.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What happened in a Russian village if one village family couldn't pay its taxes?
Chapter 26: The North Atlantic Revolutions, 1750-1830
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Q1) The end of the French Revolution was marked by the formation of the
A) Committee of Public Safety.
B) Directory.
C) Consulate.
D) National Assembly.
Q2) What was closed to colonial settlement by royal proclamation in 1763?
A) lands west of the Appalachians
B) Canada
C) the Caribbean
D) Florida
Q3) In which of these actions did Napoleon disappoint hopes that he would carry out the principles of the French Revolution?
A) reaching peace with Britain in 1802
B) codification of French Laws
C) establishing a centralized bureaucracy
D) using elections to approve his decisions after the fact
Q4) The Battle of Yorktown convinced the French to join the Revolutionary War.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Evaluate the role of women in the French Revolution.
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Q2) Who created the cotton gin?
A) Samuel Crompton
B) John Kay
C) James Hargreaves
D) Eli Whitney
Q3) What were the main barriers to Italian unification, and how were these overcome?
Q4) How did the Zollverein aid German industry?
A) It led to resource sharing.
B) It financed early industries
C) It reduced the cost of doing business.
D) It encouraged information sharing
Q5) Robert Owen did all of the following EXCEPT
A) work as a child in a textile mill.
B) create a model factory town in Scotland.
C) focus on competition in his factory.
D) provide his workers with decent housing, schools, and stores.
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Q6) Which of the political ideologies of the 1800s focused on loyalty to a cultural-linguistic group?
Chapter 28: Nation Building in the Americas, 1789-1914
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Q2) During which years was the United States embroiled in a bitter civil war?
Q3) Who held most of the key positions in Spanish America prior to the revolutions?
Q4) Which of these emerged dominant after Chile's Revolution of 1891?
A) Manuel Balmaceda
B) Chile's congress
C) the gauchos
D) the Amerinds
Q5) The earliest independent Mexican governments were ruled by
A) liberal military leaders.
B) conservative caudillos.
C) conservative-liberal coalitions.
D) the liberal middle class.
Q6) Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation with the United States Constitution.
Q7) Which of these spurred writing of the Canadian constitution in 1864?
A) the British North America Act
B) the American Civil War
C) a change in dynasty in Britain
D) the discovery of gold in Alaska
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Chapter 29: New Connections and Challenges in Eastern and
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Q1) Thailand avoided conquest by Europe by
A) exploiting Western rivalries.
B) modernizing.
C) creating of a huge military.
D) allying with China.
Q2) In China, local officials often charged peasants extra taxes that they kept for themselves. This practice was aptly called the A) squeeze.
B) draining.
C) milking.
D) fleecing.
Q3) Who trained the Indian sepoys?
Q4) Who brought a letter from the American president insisting on an opening of relations between Japan and the United States?
A) John Hay
B) Millard Fillmore
C) Matthew Perry
D) George Macartney
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Q5) Evaluate the role of Indian professionals in the Indian nationalist movements.
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A) repeal of Selim III's reforms
B) enforcement of the Shari`ah
C) Westernization and modernization
D) eradication of Western influences
Q2) Who forced Abdulhamid to restore the constitution and parliament in the Ottoman Empire?
A) Selim
B) Mahmud II
C) Reshid
D) the Young Turks
Q3) British abolitionists and liberated American slaves founded a settlement named Freetown in
A) Sierra Leone.
B) Ethiopia.
C) Libya.
D) Tripoli.
Q4) Which European country gained control of South Africa?
Q6) Which country of the Maghrib was independent in 1800? Page 41
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A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the stance of Spain in World War I?
Q3) Discuss the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Q4) In Russia, the government encouraged wartime sacrifice by banning the sale of
A) German-made products.
B) oil.
C) vodka.
D) weapons.
Q5) Evaluate the role of European colonial possessions in World War I.
Q6) Which nation switched sides in World War I because of territorial promises?
A) Britain
B) Italy
C) France
D) Austria
Q7) Why is World War I often thought to be the world's first modern war? Explain your answer.
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Chapter 32: Anxieties and Ideologies of the Interwar Years, 1918-1939
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A) father.
B) hero.
C) leader.
D) champion.
Q2) Discuss the conflict between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong.
Q3) Wahhabism dominated the emerging Saudi Arabia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which people espoused the notion that it is right that the strong overcome the weak?
Q5) How did Mao Zedong's ideology differ from that of Karl Marx?
A) Mao did not believe in a violent revolution; Marx did.
B) Marx did not believe in a violent revolution; Mao did.
C) Mao believed that peasants, not urban proletariats, could lead a Communist revolution.
D) Marx believed that peasants, not urban proletariats, could lead a Communist revolution.
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Chapter 33: World War Ii and the Holocaust, 1933-1945
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A) Cairo.
B) Tunis.
C) Benghazi.
D) Casablanca.
Q2) What made the fall of France so shocking?
A) France had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany.
B) The French army had been considered a bastion of democracy against fascist aggression.
C) England made no effort to support France militarily.
D) France had not been invaded for four hundred years.
Q3) Adolf Eichmann was the head of Hitler's SS.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of these remained neutral in World War II?
A) Spain
B) Bulgaria
C) Austria
D) Vichy France
Q5) Who was the commander of the Afrika Korps?
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Chapter 34: East Versus West: Cold War and Its Global
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A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these controlled most of West Africa in 1950?
A) Britain
B) Germany
C) France
D) the Soviet Union
Q3) Why did Stalin get so much of what he wanted at the Yalta conference?
A) Churchill and FDR wanted Soviet help against Japan.
B) Britain and the U.S. had new, inexperienced leaders.
C) The conference was held in the Soviet Union.
D) The war in Europe was over.
Q4) Under de Gaulle, France withdrew from
A) the United Nations
B) the Warsaw Pact
C) NATO's joint command
D) the Marshall Plan
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Q5) According to Ronald Reagan, what was the "evil empire"?
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A) dollar diplomacy
B) gunboat diplomacy
C) the Good Neighbor Policy
D) the Monroe Doctrine
Q3) After WWI, which South American nation emerged as the most powerful and prosperous?
A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) Chile
D) Ecuador
Q4) Discuss the problems faced by the Fox presidency in Mexico.
Q5) Discuss Cuban-American relations after the fall of Fulgencio Batista.
Q6) Argentina's army overthrew the civil government in 1943 because
A) the government was about to declare war against Germany.
B) the government was about to declare war against the United States.
C) Argentina was losing the war.
D) Argentina's pacifism was causing them to be largely isolated.
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A) impose sanctions
B) use military force
C) side with a Communist country
D) opt not to act
Q2) In 2004, Indonesia was devastated by
A) civil war.
B) a tsunami.
C) terror attacks.
D) a communist revolution.
Q3) Where did the Nationalists settle after being defeated by the Communists in China?
Q4) Which of these does NOT correctly pair a female Asian political leader with her country?
A) Jiang Qing/Korea
B) Benazir Bhutto/Pakistan
C) Megawati Sukarnoputri/Indonesia
D) Indira Gandhi/India
Q5) Discuss Japanese recovery after World War II.
Q6) Discuss the Chinese Civil War.
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B) he believed that colonial holdings were no longer necessary.
C) he believed that the cost of maintaining the African territories was too great.
D) Algeria helped France in WWI and WWII.
Q2) Discuss the declining British Empire following WWII.
Q3) What was used by Julius Nyerere to unite Tanganyika to gain independence in 1961?
A) Islam
B) the Swahili language
C) devotion to British traditions
D) connections to Indian Ocean trade
Q4) Islamic revival added which of these to Islamic reformism?
A) embrace of Western culture
B) a conservative cultural and social outlook
C) secularization of society
D) modernism
Q5) Which French leader decided abruptly to give Algeria its independence?
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