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2. The state that Europeans came to eye like greedy creditors around a rich man’s deathbed was the _______ Empire.
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3. What practice was key to the success of the Mughals in ruling over India?
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4. What Old World product became widely popular in Eurasia only once it was cultivated in the New World?
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5. One of the most effective forms of resistance that slaves employed against their masters was
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6. What occurred virtually every time Natives and Europeans came into contact?
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7. The Treaty of Westphalia of 1648
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8. For most people, the religious revival of the eighteenth century focused on
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10. The French philosopher Voltaire was attracted to Confucianism because he
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11. Which of the following European land empires expanded its territory most aggressively in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
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12. By 1800, the number of African slaves that had been imported to the Americas was about _______ million.
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13. What common trend occurred in most regions from the mid sixteenth century to the late seventeenth century?
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14. Although Chinese emperors were theoretically unlimited in their authority, during the reign of the emperor Zhengde his administration
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15. The Americas didn’t provide Europeans with added
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16. Which of the following best explains the lack of cholera outbreaks in Japan?
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17. What was the main motivating factor for European maritime expansion in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
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18. Peter the Great’s decision to move the capital of Russia to St. Petersburg reflects the shift of power in Europe to the
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19. What was a key discovery during the early sixteenth century that made regular trade possible across the Atlantic Ocean?
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20. Religious reform in Mongolia under Altan Khan was guided by
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FRUSTRATIONS OF PROGRESS;CHAOSAND COMPLEXITY
1. Which of the following did reformers first try to end in the slave industry?
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2. The term quantum mechanics refers to the study of
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3. The greatest extension of the frontier of food production in the 1800s occurred in what areas?
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4. Quinine was essential for the expansion of imperial powers because of its
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5. One of the consequences of rapid urbanization and the creation of enormous cities has been
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6. Which of the following was not an innovation that came about due to militarization in the 1800s?
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7. Many of Henri Bergson’s followers were made hopeful by his writings because he argued that
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8. Comte de Gobineau, a French anthropologist, argued that human beings
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9. The San hunters of southern Africa weren’t overwhelmed during the nineteenth century because they
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10. According to the work of anthropologist Franz Boas,
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11. The Suez Canal, built in 1869 largely by French engineers and French capital, was significant because it
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12. The purpose of Commodore Perry’s mission to Japan in 1853 was to
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13. A primary cause for the development of time standards for the entire globe was
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14. During the nineteenth century, which of the following countries experienced a decrease in industrial production?
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15. The main goal of the Habsburg Empire in World War I was
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16. Hydroelectric power requires
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17. The Helsinki Agreement of 1975 pledged its signers to recognize
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18. With regards to the mining and agriculture industry, in the nineteenth century, which of the following statements is false?
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19. Most of those who fear globalization worry that it will lead to
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20. Even greater than their use for human food, fish are a vital source of
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