World Civilizations ll ch. 16

What event sparked the Indian Mutiny of 1857?

A rumor that cow and pig fat had been used to grease the cartridges used in soldiers' rifles

Which of the following groups of people was most attracted to Wahhabi Islam?

As a battle between forward-looking Mexican liberals and backward-looking Indians

What did the Islamic revitalization movements of the early nineteenth century have in common with the Taiping movement in China?

Both provided new opportunities to claim political and spiritual legitimacy.

Hong Xiuquan believed that he was:

Jesus' younger brother sent to rid the world of evil.

Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, how did the Mayan experience of colonial rule differ from that of other indigenous Mexican peoples?

Lack of minerals or fertile land meant that Mayans escaped from forced labor recruitment and social disruption.

Why did small-scale settlements in southern Africa give way to larger states during the early nineteenth century?

Larger states were better equipped to compete for limited resources and defend against their enemies.

All of the following contributed to the beliefs and goals of the Taiping Rebellion except:

Orthodox Confucian beliefs.

Utopian socialist thinkers believed in creating change by using _______.

Planning

Which of the following was not a change made by the British in their approach to ruling India after 1857?

The British began to use railroads, roads, and telegraph lines to link the region together and make it easier to govern effectively.

What message did Tecumseh spread among the Indians of the Great Lakes region?

They should unify and stop selling land to the Americans.

When the Mayans of the Yucatan peninsula revolted against the Mexican government in 1847, what was their initial demand?

They wanted political equality with other Mexicans.

What did the radical thinkers of Restoration-period Europe have in common?

a belief in the importance of popular sovereignty

What was the outcome of the 1848 revolutions in Europe?

a crackdown by reactionary governments

When the Shawnee and other Native Americans wanted to cooperate with U.S. government officials and Christian missionaries, they were asked to do all of the following except:

abandon their native language

What reform or reforms did the British Chartist movement call for?

annual parliamentary elections, universal male suffrage, and the secret ballot

Peasant participation in the Indian rebellion of 1857 was characterized by:

attacks on people and places that represented their oppression, both Indian and British.

What form of government was most common in post-Napoleonic Europe?

conservative monarchy

In Restoration-period Europe, liberal thinkers wanted to:

continue to pursue political and economic reforms.

The leaders of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Islamic revitalization movements sought to reestablish the glory of Islam through which new practice?

creating full-scale theocratic polities

The Taiping Rebellion was an example of what Chinese tradition?

egalitarian, millenarian peasant revolts

How did nationalist thinkers define "the nation"?

in terms of a shared language and shared history

Generally speaking, the Taiping Rebellion failed because:

it failed to attract strong support from the landed gentry and other elite groups.

Viewed collectively, the actions of rebels and dissidents in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reflected:

local traditions and levels of contact with global trade networks and European power.

The Shawnee Prophet's message of renewal appealed to:

members of many Indian tribes.

Which indigenous group benefited from the British East India Company's changing policies in the years leading up to the 1857 Indian rebellion?

moneylenders

During the early nineteenth century, southern Africa experienced a crisis caused by:

overpopulation that strained the region's resource base

Early socialist and communist reformers wanted to:

overthrow the existing political and economic order.

The goals of reactionaries in Europe during the Restoration period included all of the following except:

reversal of the beginnings of industrialization.

Tenskwatawa advised his followers to do all of the following except:

stop fighting battles.

What does the popularity of the Rani of Jhansi as a hero in Indian ballads suggest about life in India after 1857?

that the British defeat of the rebellion didn't eliminate the wish for alternatives to colonial rule

Shaka of the Zulu is an example of what type of African traditional leader?

the "big man"

Wahhabi Islam was a threat to the political power of _____

the Ottoman Empire

Islamic reformers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were inspired by:

the life of Mohammed and early Islamic practice

Mohammad Ibn al-Wahhab's Islamic reform movement stressed the oneness of Islam as a reaction against:

the polytheistic beliefs that had taken root among some Muslims.