Unit 1: Age of Explorations & Atlantic World - 1400CE - 1800CE
Potatoes from America spurred population growth in Europe because they...
Yielded more food per acre than previous crops
The concern of eighteenth-century monarchs for a balance of power basically involved the desire to
Prevent domination by one state.
The principles of the French Revolution inspired the development of liberal, or _______, traditions in the Napoleonic Empire.
Broad-minded
What is one reason why the industrial revolution started in Great Britain?
It had colonies that provided markets for its goods
Colonial powers in the nineteenth century harmed their colonies by...
Keeping wages low and taxes high
To help the war effort, the Japanese used labor forces made up of who?
Prisoners of war and native Southeast Asians.
During the Cold War, which Soviet leader relaxed tensions with the West?
Brezhnev
Which nation ultimately won complete control of India?
England
Francis Bacon’s scientific method used what?
Inductive reasoning to find specific truth from basic facts.
Napoleon's leadership abilities were foreshadowed in his...
Early military successes
As in Europe and the United States, Latin American industrialization led to...
Urbanization.
Why did President Theodore Roosevelt negotiate a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan, stopping Japanese immigration to the United States?
Japan had become so powerful that many Americans began to fear that their own country was threatened by it.
Ruler of the Soviet Union with sole power in a regime of terror
Joseph Stalin
Why were a group of Asian countries referred to as the “Asian tigers”?
They were successful at creating industrial societies.
Which product imported from Europe changed the lives of Native Americans living on the Great Plains in North America?
Horses
The Seven Years’ War took place in three main regions of the world: Europe, North America, and which of the following?
India
The economic crisis that triggered the French Revolution was caused in part by...
Inflation and widespread unemployment.
What social change brought about the Industrial Revolution?
The emergence of the middle class and the working class.
In 1800, the only two societies in Southeast Asia that were under European rule were?
The Spanish Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.
As a result of World War II, most of Europe was ________.
Economically devastated.
In the 1970s, Communist Party leaders in the Soviet Union
Benefited from the corrupt system by living well
What made the seventeenth century a golden age of commerce for the Dutch?
Domination of the spice trade in India
Monarchs who practiced _____ tried to govern by Enlightenment principles.
Enlightened absolutism
Many Catholics did not support the French Revolution because it...
Brought the Church under control of the state
According to Karl Marx, the means of production were owned by?
The ruling class oppressors.
By opening themselves to trade with Western nations and the influence of Western ideas, China and Japan abandoned their longstanding policies of __________.
Isolationism
What organization was created as a result of World War II?
United Nations.
President Jimmy Carter protested the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by?
Canceling U.S. participation in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow
In trading with their Latin-American colonies, Spain and Portugal exported mainly
Manufactured goods
Rationalism is the belief that?
Reason is the chief source of knowledge.
What two forces swept through Europe after the French Revolution and challenged the old social order in many countries?
Nationalism and liberalism
Which invention led to the efficient mass production of goods?
The assembly line
What country annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908, angering Russia?
Austria-Hungary
Under Stalin, the Soviet Union and Soviet satellite states
Emphasized heavy industry
Much of Russia's economy today is sustained by
Oil and gas exports
What is Samuel de Champlain responsible for?
Founded Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in the Americas
Which of the following leaders pursued truly radical changes based on Enlightenment ideas?
Joseph II
The Constitution of 1791 limited King Louis XVI's authority by...
Giving the Legislative Assembly the power to make laws
The textile industry in England met its last major challenge to full mechanization with the development of what?
Improvements to the steam engine.
What was the Triple Alliance?
Defensive relationship between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
When the Germans surrendered, the Allies did what afterwards?
Divided control of Germany among themselves.
What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
Policy that the Soviet Union had a right to intervene if communism were threatened in another Communist nation
Which of following helped Portuguese explorers in their travels?
Knowledge of wind patterns
What religion dominated most of Western Europe during the Enlightenment and often clashed with the ideas held by European leaders?
Catholicism
Napoleon's downfall began in 1812, when he decided to
Invade Russia.
As a result of the Second Industrial Revolution, the new wealthy elite in Europe consisted of?
Industrialists, bankers, and merchants.
Under the Meiji Restoration, the chance to pursue an education was available for the first time for ________.
Women
In 1943, the Allies agreed to fight the Axis powers until they did what?
Surrendered without any favorable conditions
What is one reason that Chinese leaders took steps to improve relations with the United States during the 1970s?
They faced a serious security threat from the Soviet Union
Christopher Columbus called Honduras and the Caribbean islands the Indies because he
Thought he was in Asia instead of the Americas.
To Voltaire and many other philosophes, the universe was...
Like a clock
The French Revolution echoed the eighteenth-century Enlightenment in calling for what?
A new social order.
Europe dominated the world economy in the late nineteenth century as a result of its?
Capital and industries
After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Britain had an interests in what country?
Took an active interest in Egypt.
What conditions were stipulated for Germany’s surrender?
Germany had to surrender unconditionally to the Allies.
In the Middle East, territorial disputes over the city of Jerusalem continue to provoke violence between the Israelis and the______?
Palestinians