Final Exam 2017 WHAP

Which of the following occurred in nineteenth-century Africa as a result of the end of transatlantic slave trade?

An increased use of slave labor within Africa

Which of the following best characterizes Western imperialist expansion in the late nineteenth century?

An unprecedented amount of territory colonized in a short period of time

which of the following is true of both the Ottoman Empire and the Mughal Empire between 1450 and 1750?

Both empires were established by skilled warriors on horseback who came originally from Central Asia

which of the following characterized economic in Latin America and in Southeast Asia during the sixteenth century?

Both incorporated forced labor

The trade patterns shown on the map above depict.....

British imports of raw cotton and exports of finished cotton in the 1850s

Which of the following pairs of belief systems offered opportunities for women to lead monastic lives?

Buddhism and Christianity

The statue of a king of Kush shown above was most probably influenced by the art of..

Egypt

The "second Industrial Revolution' in the last half of the nineteenth century was associated with the mass production of which of the following groups of products?

Electricity, steel, chemicals

Which of the following was the most recent to experience rapid growth in industrial output?

England

Which of the following best helps explain why the technology of production was less advanced in the classical Mediterranean than in classical China?

Greater reliance on slavery

Which of the following is true of the expeditions of Chinese Admiral Zheng He in early 1400's?

He sailed to ports on the Indian Ocean coastline, including those in East Africa

The African proverb "Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter," conveys which of the following?

History usually reflects the viewpoint of the victors

Prior to 1000 C.E., Southeast Asia was most influenced by which of the following?

India and China

Which of the following is true of commerce in the Indian Ocean during the time period 1000-1450?

Indian Ocean commerce flourished and was conducted by a mixture of Asian, Middle Eastern, and East African merchants

The tenth-century structure in Cordoba, Spain, shown above, exemplifies the....

Islamic architectural style

In the period 1000 to 1450, which of the following developments partially resulted from knowledge of Greek science and technology?

Islamic medical books in Baghdad

Which of the following did the Mongol armies fail to conquer, and why?

Japan, because severe storms aided the experienced Japanese naval forces

The table best supports which of the following conclusions about Japanese trade in the seventeenth century?

Japanese imports of foreign goods were funded primarily by the export of precious metals

Which of the following factors best explains why the Portuguese did not engage in direct trading

Lack of the necessary navigational and maritime technology

The map above indicates that

Mali was a major source and hub of the gold trade

Which of the following led to the most dramatic change in the status of Chinese peasant women in the 1940's and 1950's?

Maoist policies that banned arranged marriages and made women an important part of the Communist women's movement

The map above shows which of the following empires at its greatest extent?

Mongol Empire

Which of the following ideas was given to Muslims on the authority of the Qur'an?

Moses and Jesus were both great prophets sent by God for the benefit of humanity

Which of the following best describes an important difference between Karl Marx's theory of socialist revolution and that of V.I. Lenin?

Only Lenin argued that the workers' revolution would have to be led by professional revolutionaries

Of the following, which represents a challenge to superpower domination by a smaller nation during the Cold War?

Prague Spring

Which of the following is true of both Russia and Japan by 1914?

Rapid, state-sponsored industrialization had occurred in both countries

The greek philosopher Aristotle is most closely associated with which of the following ideas?

Reliance on the senses to explain the nature of reality

Which of the following African countries continued to have sizeable segment of the population with European ancestry in the 1990's?

South Africa

Between 1450 and 1750, which of the following were produced on large plantations by slave labor for the world markets?

Sugar and tobacco

Which of following is a major difference between the social structure of Han China and that of classical India?

The Chinese placed bureaucrats rather than priests at the top of the social order

During the eighteenth century which of the following reigned but did not rule?

The Japanese emperor

Which of the following countries experienced the greatest number of war-related deaths during the Second World War?

The Soviet Union

Which of the following was the most important factor in enabling the Spanish to defeat the Aztec Empire?

The Spanish were able to form military alliances with other indigenous peoples who were enemies of the Aztecs

Which of the following best describes Middle Eastern trade in the period 1000 to 1450?

The area was engaged in regular trade with China, India, and sub-Saharan Africa

Which of the following was the major feature of the Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East?

The establishment of sedentary village communities

The graph indicates which of the following?

The gap between per capita incomes in East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa appears to be widening

which of the following describes the effect of skin color, ethnicity, and former slave status in Latin America in the late nineteenth century?

There continued to be discrimination on the basis of all three factors

Which of the following groups of people entered the Middle East in the eleventh century C.E. and came to dominate most of Anatolia?

Turks

Which of the following world history processes was most responsible for the eighteenth-century cityscape of St. Petersburg, Russia, shown above?

Westernization

Which of the following was one important reason for the fall of the Roman Empire in the west?

Widespread and intensified barbarian invasions

Judaism is based on the belief in....

a covenant between God and the Hebrew people

which of the following best describes the Mughal Empire?

a system in which an Islamic minority ruled over a Hindu majority

inca and Aztec societies were similar in that both.....

acquired empires by means of military conquest

Before 1700, Spain governed its American colonies through a system of

appointed administrators

The print above suggests that as nineteenth century Japan industrialized, Japanese women did which of the following?

became involved in the factory system and industrial production

Which of the following is true of both the Roman Empire and the Han Empire?

both empires were characterized by long periods of effective centralized governance

which of the following governments filled positions in the bureaucracy by means of merit examinations?

china under the Tang

Before 1870, the European presence in Africa was characterized primarily by....

coastal enclaves for trade and a few settlements

In the late nineteenth century, European imperialism in both Africa and China was characterized by.....

competition among imperialist powers

The Australian catalog page of 1929 shown above show women primarily as.....

consumers in a world economy

Which of the following is the basis for nearly all the boundaries of today's sub-Saharan African states?

decisions by European powers during the process of colonialization

The founder of Buddhism developed a religion centered on.....

elimination of desire and suffering

Which of the following is a key philosophical and religious element of Daoism?

emphasis on harmony between humanity and nature

Which of the following is most likely to have influenced eighteenth-century population trends in both Europe and China?

introduction of western hemisphere crops

In the fourteenth century, merchants from China, Arabia, Persia, and Egypt were drawn to Calicut, India, primarily to purchase....

iron

The spread of Bantu-speaking peoples over southern Africa can be best explained by their.....

knowledge of agriculture

Between 1500 and 1800, Europeans were primarily interested in tropical colonies in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and in the Caribbean because

large profits could be made from products like sugar, coffee, and pepper

The responsibilities of aristocratic women in both feudal Japan and medieval Europe usually included.....

managing household supplies and finances

In the nineteenth century, the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were two examples of

multinational empires

Rebellious ethnic minorities in the Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian Empires during the late nineteenth century were motivated primarily by.....

nationalism

spain and Portugal signed the treaty of Tordesillas (1494) primarily because they

needed to resolve their territorial disputes after the discovery of ocean routes to the Americas and the Indian Ocean

The map above shows the territorial arrangements in South Asia that resulted from...

partition at the time of decolonization

Mao Zedong and Mohandas Gandhi both appealed to which of the following as a base of support?

peasants

The United States Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect a shared concern for....

protection of private property

The Chinese concept "Mandate of Heaven" was sometimes used to justify

rebellion

During the period 1600-1800, leaders of China, Korea, and Japan all had policies that.....

regulated interactions with foreigners

Most world historians would agree that the key to European predominance in the world economy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was....

the Industrial Revolution

China's strategy for modernization and economic development in the 1950s most closely resembled the developmental strategy of....

the Soviet Union

Slavery and serfdom were abolished in the 1860s in

the United States and Russia

Which of the following best characterizes world trade in the period 1450 to 1750?

the demand for Asian commodities was financed by New World silver

The rise to economic prominence of many East Asian nations in the 1980s and 1990s entailed.....

the emphasis on producing high-value consumer goods for export

Which of the following was the leading cause of the huge global population increase in the twentieth century?

the impact of public health measures

Which of the following was most clearly NOT a consequence of the Second World War?

the independence of Brazil

In nineteenth-century liberal democratic theory, a woman's role was generally portrayed as that of......

the mother of citizens

The policies of the Meiji reformers brought about which of the following in Japan?

the promotion of rapid industrialization

Under the Japanese system of feudalism after 1600, the emperor served as the symbol of authority while real power held by.....

the shogun

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share which of the following?

they recognize the existence of Adam and of Moses

Which of the following was an experience shared by the African leaders Nelson Mandela, Robert Mugabe, Jomo Kenyatta, and Kwame Nkrumah during the colonial period?

they were held as political prisoners

The thirteenth-century map of Constantinople shown above indicates that the city....

was highly fortified against outside attacks

by 600 c.e., which of the following world regions had experienced the most extensive urban decline?

western europe