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In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels expressed the idea that - religion should be the most important factor in society. - power should be determined by a person’s wealth. - profits from labor should belong to the workers. - supply and demand should control prices.
What is C. profits from labor should belong to the workers.
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Which of the following was a widespread social consequence of industrialization in the 1800s? - A decline in the social status of women - An increase in the power and prestige of the landowning aristocracy -The general leveling of social hierarchies based on wealth -The creation of a wage-earning working class located in urban areas
What is The creation of a wage-earning working class located in urban areas
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Which of the following is a significant result of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century revolutions in both Europe and the Americas? -The theory of divine right monarchy dominated intellectual speech in both Europe and the Americas. - People throughout Europe and the Americas rejected the concept of popular sovereignty. -Nation-states emerged as the main form of political organization in both Europe and the Americas. - The political influence of liberal concepts declined throughout Europe and the Americas. “Americans today…who live within the Spanish system occupy a position in society no better than that of serfs destined for labor, or at best they have no more status than that of mere consumers. Yet even this status is surrounded with frustrating restrictions, such as being forbidden to grow European crops, or to store products which are royal monopolies, or to establish factories of a type the Peninsula itself does not possess. To this add the exclusive trading privileges, even in articles of prime necessity, and the barriers between American provinces, designed to prevent all exchange of trade, traffic, and understanding.” Simon Bolivar, Jamaica Letter, 1815
What is Nation-states emerged as the main form of political organization in both Europe and the Americas.
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One important similarity between the American Revolution and the French Revolution is that they both — - challenged monarchical governments. -resulted in the abolition of slavery. - resulted in the abolition of class divisions in society. - enabled women to achieve political equality with men.
What is challenged monarchical governments.
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Which of the following was a major cause for the growth of cities throughout Africa and Eurasia from 800 to 1350 C.E.? -The spread of mercantilism - The decline in epidemic diseases -The rise of interregional commerce - The decreasing need for agricultural workers
What is The rise of interregional commerce
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The Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and the writings of John Locke all contributed to Great Britain’s development of (type of government)
What is constitutional monarchy.
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Which of the following contributed the most to the growth of the movement to abolish slavery in the Atlantic world? -Increased availability of Asian indentured labor - The adaptation of Enlightenment ideas challenging established social hierarchies - The efforts of industrialists to create a more flexible workforce - A decline in the number of enslaved persons being taken from Africa
What is The adaptation of Enlightenment ideas challenging established social hierarchies
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Which of the following factors contributed most to the increase of world population in the period 1750 to 1900 C.E.? - A decline in the frequency and deadliness of warfare - Improvements in agricultural productivity and food distribution - Improvements in rural health care - A rapid increase in birth rates throughout the globe
What is Improvements in agricultural productivity and food distribution
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Which of the following was a major unintended effect of the publication of Charles Darwin’s 1859 work On the Origin of Species? - It became the basis for scientific research of human development. - It provided a religious explanation of the evolution of animals and plants. - It became the basis for all subsequent scientific research on species extinction. - It became the basis of various theories asserting that Europeans were naturally superior to other peoples.
What is It became the basis of various theories asserting that Europeans were naturally superior to other peoples.
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Which of the following pairs of religions spread through conversion and held beliefs that appealed to a wide variety of people? -Hinduism and Buddhism -Christianity and Buddhism - Christianity and Judaism -Daoism and Confucianism
What is Christianity and Buddhism
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The United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect a shared concern for — -physical elimination of the ruling class. - seizure of church property. -protection of private property. - preservation of the monarchy.
What is protection of private property.
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Which of the following best explains the general increase in the living standards of industrial workers between 1800 and 1914? - Deficit-spending policies by governments in major industrial states - Strong protective tariffs passed by lawmakers - The increased supply of inexpensive consumer goods - A rapid increase in birth rates throughout the globe
The increased supply of inexpensive consumer goods
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Which of the following most accurately describes the interactions between China and Europe in the nineteenth century? - China lost its economic independence to Europe as a result of military losses to European forces. - China became isolated politically in part because of its suppression of pro-Western Chinese dissenters. - China became a major exporter of manufactured goods to Europe. - China and Europe were forced into an uneasy alliance to reverse Japanese imperial expansion in northern China.
What is China lost its economic independence to Europe as a result of military losses to European forces.
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Which of the following best supports the view of some world historians that the eighteenth century marked a major turning point in world history? -The beginning of European colonization of Africa - The beginning of the Wahhabi movement of Islamic renewal in Arabia - The beginning of European colonization of Australia and New Zealand -The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England
What is The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England
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The Roman Empire, Han China, and Gupta India differed from the earliest civilizations that emerged before 600 B.C.E. in that they had — - more contact with nomads. - access to trade with the Americas. -writing systems. - authoritarian government structures.
What is more contact with nomads.
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Which of the following best describes how 19th century industrialization in Europe affected women’s lives? - By the end of the century, new social welfare legislation made it possible for most women to earn university degrees. - Married women found it increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family responsibilities. - By the end of the century, women gained the right to vote in most European countries. - Women came to dominate the agricultural workforce as men moved to cities to take industrial jobs.
What is Married women found it increasingly difficult to balance wage work and family responsibilities.
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The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was most influenced by which of the following factors? - The location and large number of British coal deposits - The amount and location of British petroleum reserves - The aggressive promotion of industrialization by George III - The spread of cotton cultivation in southern England
What is The location and large number of British coal deposits
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Which of the following was the key factor in the start of Latin American independence? -Slave uprisings - Creole grievances about their lack of political authority - The end of the Napoleonic Wars - Enlightenment ideas about religious tolerance “Liberty and justice consist of restoring all that belongs to others; thus, the only limits on the exercise of the natural rights of woman are continual male tyranny; these limits are to be reformed by the laws of nature and reason.” Olympe de Gouges, French feminist, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, 1791
What is Creole grievances about their lack of political authority
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Which is the most likely reason that rulers during the 17th century built elaborate palaces, such as the one at Versailles, France, ? - To demonstrate their wealth and power -To provide jobs for artists, architects, and builders -To create fortresses as a defense against invading armies - To glorify and demonstrate the power of the official state religion
What is To demonstrate their wealth and power
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The North American and South American independence movements of the late 18th and early 19th centuries shared which of the following? -Revolutionary demands based on Enlightenment political ideas -Reliance on Christian teachings to define revolutionary demands - Industrial economies that permitted both areas to break free of European control -Political instability caused by constant warfare among the new states
What is Revolutionary demands based on Enlightenment political ideas
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By 1830 revolutions in the Atlantic world resulted in which of the following changes? - The political independence of colonies in both North and South America - The emancipation of slaves everywhere in the Atlantic world - Political and economic domination of the Western Hemisphere by the United States - The creation of a politically unified South America
What is The political independence of colonies in both North and South America
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Which of the following resulted from Europe’s expansion overseas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? - European countries acquired colonies and dominated world trade. - Europe’s population size and industrial productivity declined. - The number of workers needed for European factories declined. - Mechanized agriculture spread worldwide.
What is European countries acquired colonies and dominated world trade.
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In the period 1500 to 1750, the population of the Portuguese colony of Brazil grew rapidly and became mainly African. Which of the following best explains these demographic changes? - The adoption of native food crops by African migrants -Portuguese loss of colonial holdings in the Indian Ocean - The rapid natural increase of Brazil’s early slave population -The increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar
What is The increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar
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