Global 1: Quiz 2

Christopher Columbus was greatly influenced by:

Marco Polo

In "The Mongols" J.M. Roberts offers an example of the rapid spread of an early and very far reaching empire that the author argues "makes nonsense of chronological and territorial divisions" between societies and cultures.

True

According to your course lectures the globalization of human society started with the:

- Rise of the first civilizations

According to McCarty, thinking globally about history requires us to:

- See modern globalization as a new phase of historical processes that go back into the distant past. - Decenter and re-contextualize historical narratives.

The Silk Road and the Amber Road are significant because?

- They are early examples of economic globalization. - They were very important long distance trade routes.

According to lecture, colonialism:

- is the exploitation by a weaker country or people by a stronger country - involves the taking of resources

In "The Rise of the West?" Robert Marks mentions several events that may have led Europeans to believe they were superior to the rest of the world including (pick more than one):

- rapid technological progress in the Industrial Revolution - Easy conquest of the New World following the introduction of Old World diseases and the Great Dying

In "The History of the Hellenistic Period" author Simon Price argued that by the time the Romans arrived the original democratic government of Greece had already changed in some important and very undemocratic ways. Democracy had become an oligarchy, a de facto restriction of office to the rich. The oligarchs would not tolerate which of the following (pick more than one):

- true democracy - redistribution of land or homes - cancellation of debts - popular agitation

Which of the following set the stage for the Age of Exploration, according to McCarty's section 2 introduction: (select all that apply)

-A need for European countries to find a new supply of slave labor. - The Ottoman takeover of Constantinople, which cut off Eastern trade routes - The desire to find ocean trade routes to the Far East

In "The Rise of the West?" author Robert Marks argued that "the rise of the West" storyline leads Western nations to think that all the world's problems can be solved with more Western style free market and more Western style government. This leads Marks to describe the "rise of the West" as:

A political agenda

Empires, according to McCarty's section 2 introduction:

Are made up of more than one state and more than one culture

The Apollo space missions introduced a new conceptualization of the world, which is often referred to as the:

Blue Marble

According to McCarty's section 1 introduction, a better understanding of the historical context of globalization:

Can help us better understand how globalization impacts people differently around the world

According to McCarty's section 1 introduction, decentering history means dividing the world into recognizable, discrete periods.

False

In "Recovering the Context" Eric Wolf argued that the modern world, unlike the past, is a totality of interconnected processes.

False

Several of the world's major religions developed between 300 BCE and 700 CE. The argument was made in lecture that these global religions significantly slowed down the process of globalization by suppressing science and progress.

False

The transition from conceptualizing the world as flat land to conceptualizing it as a round oceanic world was the result of the great Chinese trading ships of the 1400s.

False

In lecture, Dr. McCarty discussed the debate surrounding the issue of defining globalization. Which of the following is an area where there is general agreement about globalization?

None of the above

As was discussed in lecture, rhetoric emulating the Crusades was seen in the modern-day example of the following historical event:

Post-9/11 War on Terror

According to Eric Wolf, the story of Western civilization turns history into developmental scheme, a moral success story with United States at the end.

True

According to McCarty in his section 2 introduction, modern government buildings still use ancient symbols of power that were popular in ancient Greece and Egypt.

True

According to Simon Price the change from city states to larger empires during the Hellenistic period meant that larger armies were needed to fight over wider areas. The size of the armies and their battles more than doubled and eventually reached sizes that would remain common throughout the feudal period. At the same time the brutality of royal sanctions increased. Entire cities were wiped out or enslaved.

True

According to Simon Price the fundamental importance of warfare for maintaining larger empires changed the role of the kings and their relationship to local governments.

True

Author Robert Marks argued that we cannot understand the "rise of the West" or how the modern world looks today without taking into account historical developments in China, India and other regions of the world.

True

Author Simon Price argued that the conquests of Alexander the Great and the founding of many Greek cities during the Hellenistic period (323 - 146 BC) had a dramatic cultural impact on the regions we know as the Middle East, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan.

True

In "Recovering the Context" Eric Wolf argued that the human social world is an interconnected totality and that social science disciplines have often tended to ignore those interconnections.

True

In "Recovering the Context" Eric Wolf argued that the world of humankind is a totality of interconnected processes and that disassembling it into bits is to falsify reality.

True

In "The History of the Hellenistic Period" author Simon Price noted that democracy was espoused by Alexander the Great and every king of Greece that followed. The paradox is that during the expansion of empire in the Hellenistic period, as Greeks sought to impose their culture on others, the real civic participation by Greek citizens in their own government declined and dominance by the wealthy increased.

True

In "The History of the Hellenistic Period" author Simon Price points out that the Greek monarchies frequently established new cities in conquered areas to ensure the dominance of Greek culture over native cultures. For Price the clear connection between political power and cultural domination in Hellenistic Greece provides an interesting analogy to later European colonial empires.

True

In "The Mongols" author J.M. Roberts argued that the Mongols learned the use of paper money from the Chinese. The Mongols then introduced the idea to the Persians. From there the practice spread to Europe and continues to this day.

True

In "The Mongols" author J.M. Roberts argued that the Mongols practiced a form of religious tolerance well before the idea found it way into the literature of the Enlightenment in Europe.

True

In "The Rise of the West?" author Robert Marks argued that a single World Trade Organization meeting can tell us a lot about the way the modern world is organized and the historical processes that led to the current state of affairs.

True

In "The Rise of the West?" author Robert Marks argued that how we understand the past shapes how we understand our present and has real implications that shape our future.

True

In "The Rise of the West?" author Robert Marks argued that one of the primary intellectual goals of the founders of modern social theory (the eighteenth and nineteenth century classic social theorists such as Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Marx and Weber) was to explain how Europe came to dominate the rest of world and explain what makes Europeans so exceptional. From the start virtually all of the social sciences included the idea of European exceptionalism as one of their basic assumptions.

True

In "The Rise of the West?" author Robert Marks argued that the seven largest industrial nations (often called the Group of Seven or G7) account for two thirds of the world's economic output and wealth. These countries use their industrial power to set the rules for how the world economy works.

True

In "The Rise of the West?" author Robert Marks argued that the seven largest industrial nations (often called the Group of Seven or G7) account for two thirds of the world's economic output and wealth. These countries use their industrial power to set the rules for how the world economy works. Select one:

True

In lecture Dr. McCarty argued that several of the world's major religions developed between 300 BCE and 700 CE. The argument was made in lecture that these global religions played a profound role in globalization by spreading not only their beliefs but also a wide array of linguistic, artistic, agricultural, scientific, administrative, and military practices.

True

In lecture the argument was made that globalization is a long-standing historical trend that takes different forms in different periods.

True

In the "Mongols" author J.M. Roberts argued that Mongol leader Genghis Khan was the greatest conqueror the world has ever known.

True

In "The Mongols" author J.M. Roberts makes which of the following arguments about the rapid spread of the Mongol Empire between 1218-1260.

a. Mongol military tactics included careful reconnaissance, a swift moving cavalry, advanced siege tactics, and the use of terror Correct b. Mongol leaders made good use of the skills found in the people they conquered Correct c. the Mongol empire gained control of the trade routes between China and the Middle East Correct d. even though it didn't last long the Mongol Empire was influenced by, and in turn influenced, many different civilizations from China to the Middle East Correct e. Mongol rulers often displayed a kind of religious tolerance not known in Europe until much later Correct

In lecture the instructor said that thinking globally about history requires us to (select one or more):

a. consider how ongoing historical processes continue to shape our world Correct b. situate apparently unrelated historical events in ongoing processes d. re-conceptualize the traditional historical narrative of Western Civilization Correct

In "Recovering the Context" Eric Wolf argued that concepts such as "nation," "society" and "culture" can be misleading because they:

all of the above answers are correct.

Which of the following set the stage for the Age of Exploration, according to McCarty's section 2 introduction: (select all that apply)

b. The Ottoman takeover of Constantinople, which cut off Eastern trade routes. Correct c. The desire to find ocean trade routes to the Far East. Correct d. A need for European countries to find a new supply of slave labor

Globalization threatens the modern nation state in which of the following ways? (select one or more)

b. the sovereignty of the nation state is increasingly subject to regional and global forms of governance Correct c. increasing ethnic and cultural diversity due to immigration Correct d. the fates of national communities are no longer in their own hands Correct e. people belong to more than one political community Correct

Author Robert Marks argued that the Industrial Revolution started in Britain because:

of colonialism and other global forces

Author Robert Marks argued that before the 1400's the world was made up of:

polycentric regions that were somewhat independent but did interact with each other