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Slavery & serfdom end because
A humanitarian impulse emerges that condemns slavery
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Confederate government:
Attempted to convince Britain and France to support the Confederacy, especially because of the importance of Southern cotton to the British and French textile industries
Edward Said defines orientalism as:
Belief in a fundamental difference between the East and the West and the ways in which that belief has influenced western art, architecture, literature, politics*
In the 1880s, the descendants of Dutch settlers in southern Africa fought against British dominance in the region during the ________.
Boer Wars
The American Civil War (1861-1865) had an impact on all of the following events except:
Brazil's decision not to abolish slavery and Russia's attempt to sell Alaska to Canada
Latin America contradicts its Western status by its
Continuing status as a peripheral region/continent
Christianity in Latin America was manifested by
Conversion of local deities into saints
China began to lag behind Europe due to
Europe takes the lead in technology
Which statement best expresses the Western perspective regarding Rudyard Kipling's "white man's burden"?
Europeans had a duty to introduce the benefits of their civilization to non-European peoples.
Which European power had the largest empire in western Africa?
France
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), President Abraham Lincoln offered this European political activist and opponent of slavery a position as general in the Union Army:
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Continuing status as a peripheral region/continent
India
How is the concept of "the other" used in world history?
It demonstrates the ways in which loyalty to one's own tribe or identity group leads to the exclusion of those not in the tribe, which has resulted in profound consequences for world history
How has the concept of "the other" shaped human history?
It has contributed to wars, imperialism, nativism and anti-immigration sentiment
What is meant by the phrase "mission to civilize"
It reflected a European belief that they had a moral obligation to "civilize the savage" through contact with European cultures
Before the 19th century, Europeans were "kept out" of the tropical interior of Africa by all of the following except:
Little interest in Africa or its resources
Which of the following WAS NOT part of the racist foundations of "New Imperialism" in the late nineteenth century?
Market demands for resources like diamonds and rubber
Yellow Fever in the Caribbean was particularly deadly to:
Newcomers to the islands, particularly white Europeans with no past exposure to the disease
Which of the following does not characterize the Ottoman Turks?
Quickly and easily adopted western technology as the Industrial Revolution progressed in the 19th century
Arguments against slavery include all of the following except: Everyon
Slavery made the price of goods higher by increasing labor costs
The application of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution to human societies is called what?
Social Darwinism
Most Latin American countries gain their independence from
Spain & Portugal
The building of what piece of engineering technology in 1869 encouraged British and French interest in Egypt and Sudan?
Suez Canal
The Caribbean was particularly well suited to the spread of Yellow Fever for all of the following reasons except:
The Caribbean had a long history of Yellow Fever epidemics prior to the arrival of the Europeans
Which event in China was a major civil war between the rebel forces of religious leader Hong Xiuquan and the government, a war that was the bloodiest civil war in History and that devastated much of China?
The Taiping Revolt
Orientalism is reflected in all of the following except:
The expansion of the Ottoman Empire into the Arabian Peninsula
Tokugawa shogunate is characterized as
The last traditional, feudal government in Japan
With regard to serfdom, Russia wanted
To modernize their military forces
Commitment and loyalty to one's own tribe is called _______.
Tribalism
During much of the nineteenth century, which Asian countries, which at the time were together called Indochina, were French colonies?
Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
As a result of the Meiji Restoration (1868) in Japan, the Tokugawa Shogunate:
Was overthrown, and Japan came to have a government that industrialized its economy, modernized its military and fought successful wars to acquire Taiwan and Korea as Japanese colonies
The two most devastating of the tropical, mosquito-borne diseases in modern history are
Yellow fever and malaria
After 1880, European nations sought colonies in Africa primarily because the Europeans were
competing with each other for raw materials, markets, and power
The West versus the Rest
emphasizes fundamental distinctions between the original Western powers on the European continent, and Europe's Westernized former colonies in the Americas and elsewhere.
Throughout the 1800's, an increased need for both raw materials and new markets for manufactured goods led various European nations to pursue policies of:
imperialism
