hist test 2

by 1903, _______ had enhanced the power and range of his device enough to send the first transatlantic radio message, from Cape Cod in the US to Cornwall in England

Marconi

among the factors that made industrialization in belgium northern france and the northern german states more suitable in the 1830s than earlier in the century was

an improved network of roads, canals and

becoming a successful city- state in time _____ excluded both the Creoles living in the countryside and the rural amerindians

buenos aires

during the nineteenth century, many of the new latin nations wanted to limit the authority of the ___________

catholic church

the western powers held the view that china was a zero sum gain trading partner because:

china only took in funds and no other goods, creating a drain on the economies who they interacted with

the spinning mule, invented in 1779

considered the spinning and weaving of textiles into one machine

among other measures, the service proposed by Sergei White

converted to the gold standard in order to stablize the currency

until that point, ________ in the mediterranean was a condoned. officially sanctioned activity. eurpoean states employed the practice to maintain ......................

corsairing

sultan abdulhamit used the russian ottoman war of 1977-8178 as an excuse to

dismiss the ottoman parliment and rule by decree

in 1900 sigmund freud has his highly influential book on The Interpretation of ___________, which developed his ideas of the subconscious mind

dreams

the moji constitution did all of the following except

ensure that the appearance

after he had ________ and suffered a nervous breakdown, Hong Xiquan came to believe that he was Christ's younger brother

failed his civil service examination for the third time

as a result of a british and french raid on Beijing in 1860 a newly created chinese board was to handle Qing _________, and the chinese were invited to send their own ambassadors abroad

foreign relations

____ argued that rational thought would not improve either the individual or the welfare of human kind only to recourse to the "wall to power" will suffice life, after all is meaningless according to this thinker

freid....

for the first time in its long history, the ottoman empire turned outward for help, asking western european powers to aid it against the ________.................................._______

french

in 1832, _____ became independent of ottoman rule in war of liberation, and it was the first country in which ethnic nationalism was an element in its foundation

greece

the movement to bring about the (talping tianguo) on earth became known as the taiping rebellion and was headed by the former confucian follower hong xiuquan

heavenly kingdom of great peace

Ferdinand von Zeppelin's dirigible airship was kept aloft by the incorporation of bags filled with _____ gas

hydrogen

the ottoman vassal in Egypt, Muhammad Ali rose in rebellion and would have conquered ______ had european forced not intervened

istanbul

one advantage enjoyed by Germany in its production of steel was:

its development of sophisticated science research

_________ was an Austrian, french-backed emperor of mexico from 1864-1867

max

the descembrist revolt was fed by a small # of _____ in 1825 but it was quickly suppressed and its leaders were hanged

military officers whos

execution of emperor mazimillian of mexico, a testament to the art style of _______ was painted by _______

modernity, edourard manet

Ottoman troops were able to repress nationalist agitators in macedonia in the 1890s because:

none of the groups received outside support in their effort

the culmination of the trend to incorporate western models into the japanese ______ was ajfhkjahfjk

novel

shites are unique in having a small number, about half a dozen today of _________ [signs of god] who are distinguished by their knowledge of the Quran and islamic conditions

Ayatoliahs

with the ascension of the infant Guangxu as emperor in 1874 came to the regency of empress dowager ________.

Cixi

the most famous - and most radical - of british political feminists was _____ who together with her daughters formed the women's social and political union in 1903

Emmeline

by the end of the eighteenth century, the illegal trade in _______, or foreign mud constituted the most profitable import commodity in china, especially around the areas of Guangzhou (canton)

opium

Gran Columbia was divided in 1831 into its component parts, which included all of the following EXCEPT

peru

the _______ loss of the war and the pacific (1879-1884) resulted in the annexation of some of its territory and mines together with the destruction wrought by the enemy's troops

peruvian

when latin american republics declared their independence the Vatican in Rome

refused to recognize their independence concerned with the power of naming bishops

________ was deeply impressed in 1804 when he witnessed:

simon bolivar: the conclusion of napolean as emperor in PAris

in the 1870s, conservative intellectuals broadened the conceptualization of Russian nationality into an ideology of pan-__-

slavism

the empress dowager prompted a world in the western world thanks to her backing of the

the boxers

the novel ______ written by cao fjakhfdjk is considered to be the greatest literary masterpiece of the Q.......

the dream of the red chamber

among the innovative measures proposed by NIkolai Fjkdjhjks in his novel What is to be done?

the liberation of women

all of the following technological innovations were important to mechanization EXCEPT:

the static shuttle