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100
What concept does Mary Wollstonecraft argue would help women the most in achieving their main objective of equal rights?
(A) patriotism
(B) voting rights
(C) education
(D) common language
c. education
100
Which economic theory is best supported by Adam Smith?
(A) utilitarianism
(B) communism
(C) corporatism
(D) laissez-faire
d. laissez-faire
100
The speech by Wilhelm II is promoting which of the
following?
(A) Social Darwinism and racism
(B) Marxism and socialism
(C) aggression and appeasement
(D) imperialism and nationalism
d. imperialism and nationalism
200
. Which of the following contributed to British
imperialism in the nineteenth century?
(A) the process of industrialization and
increased nationalism
(B) the desire to sponsor industrialization
efforts overseas
(C) the emergence of Asian and African land
empires
(D) the transition from manufacturing to the
putting-out system
(A) the process of industrialization and
increased nationalism
200
The boundary lines on the map (source 1) reflect
which of the following?
(A) natural barriers such as rivers and mountain
ranges
(B) traditional tribal divisions within African
societies
(C) linguistic differences
(D) European economic and political concerns
(D) European economic and political concerns
200
. What is the main reason that there were no
significant trade routes in the central portion of the
Africa?
(A) the hostility of local tribes discouraged
outsiders
(B) the central part of Africa has no significant
resources
(C) linguistics barriers made trade difficult
(D) the harshness of the terrain made travel
practically impossible
(D) the harshness of the terrain made travel
practically impossible
300
Gunpowder Weaponry: Europe vs. China
In Western Europe during the 1200s through the 1400s, early cannons, as heavy and as slow to fire as they were, proved useful enough in the protracted sieges that dominated warfare during this period that governments found it sufficiently worthwhile to pay for them and for the experimentation that eventually produced gunpowder weapons that were both more powerful and easier to move. By contrast, China, especially after the mid – 1300s, was threatened mainly by highly mobile steppe nomads, against whom early gunpowder weapons, with their unwieldiness, proved of little utility. It therefore devoted its efforts to the improvement of horse archer units who could effectively combat the country’s deadliest foe.
. The argument in this passage most closely relates to
which of the following large – scale questions about
global history?
(A) how societies shared strategically important
technologies with each other
(B) why European states went on to attain
military superiority over non – Western
powers in the modern era
(C) why Silk Road commerce dwindled across
the breadth of Eurasia after 1500 C.E.
(D) how the medieval climate affected the
process of cultural diffusion
(B) why European states went on to attain
military superiority over non – Western
powers in the modern era
300
. Simón de Bolivar accomplished which of the following?
(A) the first independence in Latin American
states
(B) the first military victory of the War of 1812
(C) the first military victory of the Spanish –
American War
(D) the first political coup by someone of mixed
racial descent
(A) the first independence in Latin American
states
300
The disintegration of the Abbasid Caliphate most
directly led to which of the following political
developments in the Islamic world in the thirteenth
century?
(A) the Russian conquest of Central Asia
(B) the rise of Turkic states
(C) the conversion of most of the Islamic world
to Shi‘a Islam
(D) the collapse of trade along the Silk Road
networks
(B) the rise of Turkic states
400
Gunpowder Weaponry: Europe vs. China
In Western Europe during the 1200s through the 1400s, early cannons, as heavy and as slow to fire as they were, proved useful enough in the protracted sieges that dominated warfare during this period that governments found it sufficiently worthwhile to pay for them and for the experimentation that eventually produced gunpowder weapons that were both more powerful and easier to move. By contrast, China, especially after the mid – 1300s, was threatened mainly by highly mobile steppe nomads, against whom early gunpowder weapons, with their unwieldiness, proved of little utility. It therefore devoted its efforts to the improvement of horse archer units who could effectively combat the country’s deadliest foe.
What traditional view of world history does this
passage seem to challenge?
(A) that China has always been less
technologically adept than most Afro –
Eurasian societies
(B) that China’s rigid form of dictatorial rule
suppresses any spirit of military or
technological innovation
(C) that China was hindered by religious
fundamentalism when it came to
modernizing efforts
(D) that China was surpassed by Europe in
global power because it turned a blind eye
to the obvious benefits of technological
change
(D) that China was surpassed by Europe in
global power because it turned a blind eye
to the obvious benefits of technological
change
400
The declaration of the rights of man and citizen is best understood in the context of which of the following?
(A) the conquest of France by neighboring
powers
(B) the establishment of slavery and
serfdom in France
(C) the spread of anticolonial movements
(D) the rise and diffusion of Enlightenment
ideas
(D) the rise and diffusion of Enlightenment
ideas
400
Which of the following groups would most likely
disagree with the ideas expressed in the
excerpt?
(A) French land-owning elite
(B) slaves in French colonies
(C) European monarchs
(D) peasants and serfs
c. European monarchs
500
“At least one of the [world’s] societies would have to somehow enormously increase its productivity [in order to achieve global hegemony]. That quantum jump would have to be made before the various scientific, technological, agricultural, and industrial revolutions on which our post-quantum-leap world rests. It could only be accomplished by exploiting the ecosystems, mineral resources, and human assets of whole continents outside the lands of the society making the jump. Western Europe did just that by means of its brutality and guns and, more important, by geographical and ecological luck.”
- Alfred Crosby, historian, Ecological Imperialism, 2004
Crosby’s argument in the passage is most likely a
response to which of the following developments of
the period 1450-1750 C.E.?
(A) the development of direct trade links
between Western Europe and India
(B) the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
(C) the colonization of North and South
America by Western Europeans
(D) the increasing development of seafaring
technologies
(C) the colonization of North and South
America by Western Europeans
500
“At least one of the [world’s] societies would have to somehow enormously increase its productivity [in order to achieve global hegemony]. That quantum jump would have to be made before the various scientific, technological, agricultural, and industrial revolutions on which our post-quantum-leap world rests. It could only be accomplished by exploiting the ecosystems, mineral resources, and human assets of whole continents outside the lands of the society making the jump. Western Europe did just that by means of its brutality and guns and, more important, by geographical and ecological luck.”
- Alfred Crosby, historian, Ecological Imperialism, 2004
The “quantum jump” mentioned in the passage
most directly contributed to which of the following
developments in the period of 1450-1750 C.E.?
(A) a breakdown in trade routes through the
collapse of the established state structure
(B) an increase in the population of the world
through more plentiful supplies of food
(C) the spread of Chinese and Indian belief
systems across the world
(D) an increase in social unrest
(B) an increase in the population of the world
through more plentiful supplies of food
500
Young Italy is a brotherhood of Italians who believe in a law of progress and duty, and are convinced that Italy is destined to become one nation, convinced also that she possesses sufficient strength within herself to become one, and that the ill success of her former efforts is to be attributed not to the weakness, but to the misdirection of the revolutionary elements within her,—The means by which Young Italy proposes to reach its aim are education and insurrection, to be adopted simultaneously and made to harmonize with each other. Education must ever be directed to teach, by example, word, and pen, the necessity of insurrection. Insurrection, whenever it can be realized, must be so conducted as to render it a means of national education. Education, though of necessity secret in Italy, will be public outside of Italy.
- Source: Readings in Modern European History by James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard. Volume II. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1909.
. The views depicted in the excerpt best reflect
which of the following nineteenth century
movements?
(A) socialism
(B) egalitarianism
(C) nationalism
(D) rationalism
c. nationalism