World History

12. Mercantilism is an economic system designed to help a country achieve

A positive balance of trade

23. A biography of Abraham Lincoln is an example of a

A secondary source

30. One particular view or theory based on historical evidence is called

An interpretation

22. The Indian Revolt of 1857 brought about the end of power in India for

Both the east India company & the Mughal dynasty

18. The Opium Wars were fought between

China and Britain

28. The Chinese scholar-bureaucrats got their jobs by

Doing well on an exam

21. Characteristics of romanticism do NOT include

Emphasis on reason (rather than emotion)

14. A central concept in Confucianism is

Filial piety

3. Who got their way in the negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles?

France

8. Mao Zedong's plan to collectivize agriculture and rapidly industrialize China was called the

Great leap forward

4. At the Berlin Conference European leaders gathered to decide

How to divide up Africa during the new imperialism

27. During the Scientific Revolution an emerging way of determining what's true that called for experimentation and observation

Inductive reasoning

11. Author bias is

Inevitably present in all writing because all humans have bias

5. Which of the following was NOT a proxy war of the Cold War?

Iraq war

7. Which of the following is not a suggested strategy for evaluating and interpreting a historical text?

Making a value judgment about the text

25. Following the Meiji Restoration Japan underwent all of the following changes except

Moved to an absolute monarchy

20. Stories about things that happened that are not written down but are passed down verbally from generation to generation are considered

Oral tradition

24. Which of the following was NOT a key theme of the Enlightenment?

Original sin

15. Which of the following did absolutism and constitutionalism NOT have in common?

Power shared with a representative legislative body

16. The Declaration of Independence is an example of a

Primary source

6. An encyclopedia is an example of a

Secondary source

9. The Treaty of Tordesillas settled a dispute between

Spain and Portugal

13. Causes of the outbreak of World War I included all of the following except

The Russian revolution

19. Which of the following best defines a primary source?

The original place where information can be found, or the first person to make that information available

26. Japan closed its borders to most outside trade under the

Tokugawa shogunate

29. An empire that does not directly govern over conquered territories but rather allows them to keep most of their existing social and political structures, culture, and religion, as long as they keep paying the imperial state money (in the form of taxes, valuable gifts, or resources) is a

Tributary empire

17. The bourgeoisie included all of the following except

Unskilled factory workers

1. Peter the Great helped reorient Russia from

an eastern toward a western orientation

10. The Vietnam War was fought due to the US policy of

containment

2. One important theological idea that Protestants believed in during the Protestant Reformation is

priesthood of all believers