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
