This is an example of one of the four major river valleys where civilization started.
What are the Indus (India), Nile (Egypt), Huang He (Yellow), and Tigris and Euphrates (Mesopotamia)?
100
This was a major result of the Industrial Revolution
What is 1. concentration of workers in urban areas, 2. new innovations, and 3. issues with child labor
100
This two nations were most active during the age of exploration in the Americas.
What were Portugal and Spain?
100
Which is an accurate statement about the partitioning of Africa by European imperialist nations during the 1800s?
1. new nations were based on old tribal boundaries
2. the cultural and ethnic diversity of the African people was disregarded
3. the continent was divided equally among the colonial powers
4. African unity was encouraged
What are the cultural and ethnic diversity of the African people was disregarded
100
This region is most closely associated with conflict in the West Bank, Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula.
What is the Middle East
200
The belief that your culture is superior to another is called this.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
In France, this was a major result of the French Revolution
What is
1. the middle class gained political influence (bourgeoisie)
2. the clergy lost power
3. increase in literacy
200
The Incas used this farming technique that cuts into the mountain in order to plant crops.
What is terrace farming?
200
Which common social belief best expresses the motive for 19th century European imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism and White Man's Burden.
200
This wealthy nation was ruled by Mansa Musa and had extensive trade networks of gold and salt.
What is Ghana?
300
The Congress of Vienna attempted to restore order after the fall of this French leader in the early 19th century.
Who was Napoleon?
300
Simon Bolivar and Miguel Hidalgo, leaders of Latin American independence movements, were inspired by successful revolutions in
What are the United States and France
300
The belief in China that power to rule comes from "above".
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
In 19th century China, the Opium War resulted in
this.
What is an increase in European spheres of influence in China
300
This form of government is best characterized by one-party rule, censorship, and the use of terror to maintain power.
What is a totalitarian or autocratic government.
400
This Chinese explorer sailed on treasure ships and helped spread Chinese culture.
Who was Zheng He?
400
This revolution established permanent communities and farming.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
400
Japan remained isolationist until the 1850's largely due to the authority of this ruling clan.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
400
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans improved roads and bridges and built railroads in their colonies primarily to do this.
What is obtain raw materials needed for industrialization
400
Two periods in history that encouraged questioning and knowledge in Europe.
What were the Enlightenment and the Renaissance?
500
This is one of the characteristics of a "golden age"
What are:
1. advancements in math, science, literature and culture
2. period of peace and prosperity
3. high point in a civilization.
500
"Revolution will occur more and more frequently in the industrialized nations as the proletariat struggles to overcome the abuses of the capitalist system."
This quotation reflects the ideas of whom?
Who is Karl Marx
500
The Aztecs built these lang masses in order to expand land for farming in Lake Texcoco?
What are chinampas?
500
The term "White Man's Burden" reflects the idea that . . .
What is Europeans had a responsibility to improve the lives of the native peoples in their colonies.
500
The policy is most directly associated with the terms "spheres of influence," "extraterritoriality," and "protectorate"