module 10 pre-asses

All of the following are reasons the Industrial Revolution began in the country depicted in the map (Great Britain) except

disrupted by political revolution

All of the policies listed were followed by communist regimes in Eastern Europe except:

establishment of democratic political systems

This chart summarizes

-responsibilities of Muslims -religious tenets promoted by the Quran and Muhammad -the Five Pillars

Which of the following is NOT a reason slaves were sought in Africa?

African slaves were necessary for use on rice plantations in Asia.

Which of the following is a similarity between the Ottoman and Chinese governments during the period 1450-1750 ?

An extensive governmental bureaucracy

Which of the following accurately compares religious developments in India and China in the period 1450-1750 C.E.?

Both India and China had growing Muslim populations.

The Mughal Empire and the Ottoman Empire before 1700 C.E. shared which of the following characteristics?

Both empires were religiously and culturally diverse.

Which of the following countries was not included in the Triple Entente during World War I?

Germany

Which revolution from this time period was NOT led by Creoles or the middle class?

Haitian Revolution

A civilization that followed the ideas of the Hymn of the Primeval Man in the Veda and believed in Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva would most likely...

Have a relatively low instance of civil unrest

The civilization associated with this map(capital of Technotilan) employed a tributary system of trade. What other civilization used that method to control perimeter regions?

China

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Soviet economy?

Consumer goods were readily available

"We did not have a tractor industry. Now we have one. We did not have an automobile industry. Now we have one. In the output of electric power, we were last on the list. Now we rank among the first. In the output of oil products and coal, we were last on the list. Now we rank among the first. And as a result of all this, our country has been converted from an agrarian into an industrial country". - Joseph Stalin How was the economic development described above by Stalin primarily achieved?

Control of the national economy by the government

Which group of advisors saw their influence grow dramatically during the reign of Emperor Yongle?

Court Eunuchs

Which of the following best describes the Mughal's relationship with the west?

Economic contact but little political contact

Which of the following is the most direct result of the general availability of birth control during the twentieth century?

Increase of women in the work force

Which group of terms are associated only with the Pacific Theatre of WWII?

Island Hopping, atomic bombs, Midway

The ideas used by Jefferson in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were inspired by

John Locke

The lifting of traditional restrictions on Indian labor contributed most directly to which of the following global processes?

Long-distance and overseas migrations of contractual and coerced workers

Unlike Sub Saharan Africa, Islam was brought initially to India by(map showing monsoon winds in Indian Ocean)

Mahmud of Ghazni and conquest

What European traveller, who similarly wrote about his exploits, can we compare to Ibn Battuta?

Marco Polo

Which of the following individuals was not associated with the unification of Japan?

Matteo Ricci

Which of the following is true about political organization in Latin America in the 1800s?

Most attempts at political unification, across Latin America, failed.

What alliances were formed at the beginning of the Cold War?

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Compared to the regulations in the excerpt, Buddhist practices concerning gender roles in the period 600 C.E. to 600 B.C.E. differed in that they:

Offered women and men the possibility of monastic life as an alternative to marriage

"The poor live their Christian faith and proclaim their hope in the midst of inhuman misery and poverty, resulting from above all the unjust social structures that favor a privileged minority". -- Gustavo Gutierrez, Peruvian priest and founder of the liberation theology movement, 1985, public domain Which of the following best represents the main idea of the passage above on liberation theology by Gutierrez?

Religious clergy in Latin America fought for economic and social justice.

Which of the following below was NOT included in the final set of treaties that ended WWI?

Russia received territories in Poland and the Baltic republics

For Japan to industrialize its military during this time period, it had to push for a reduction in influence of which of the following?

Samurai

Which of the following best describes the Roman response to the trend shown in this chart?(percentages of villages depopulated in the Western Roman Empire from 400 CE to 500 CE)

Shifting power and resources to the east, eventually resulting in the creation of the Byzantine Empire

In order to avoid a war on two fronts, Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with this country.

Soviet Union

The existence of a sugar mill in a Mexican town indicates the region where the town is located took part in which of the following?

The Atlantic trade system

What was the region of Europe that held the most diplomatic crises leading up to World War I?

The Balkans

The Silk Roads facilitated trade between which of the following pairs of civilizations?

The Middle East and China

We have been engaged in drawing lines upon maps where no white man's feet have ever trod; we have been giving away mountains and rivers and lakes to each other, only hindered by the small impediment that we never knew exactly where the mountains and rivers and lakes were. Lord Salisbury, British Prime Minister in response to the colonization of Africa (public domain) _________________________________________________________________________________ The quote above refers to which of the following terms?

The Scramble for Africa

Which of the following is the name given to the reforms that attempted to westernize/modernize the Ottoman Empire?

The Tanzimat Reforms

The creation of what world wide organization helped to lend a voice to those countries who supported decolonization?

The United Nations

"In countries where there is a great scarcity of money, all other saleable goods, and even the labor of men, are given for less money than [in countries] where money is abundant. Thus we see by experience that in France (where money is scarcer than in Spain) bread, wine, cloth, and labor, are worth much less. And even in Spain, in [recent] times when money was scarcer than it is now, saleable goods and labor were given for much less." -- Martín de Azpilcueta Navarro,Spanish scholar, treatise, 1556 Navarro's economic observations expressed in the passage above are best understood in the context of which of the following?

The beginning of large-scale importation of silver by China from Spanish mines in the Americas

Which of the following emerged in western Europe after 500 C.E. in large part as a reaction to the changes illustrated by this chart?(percentages of villages depopulated in Western Roman Empire 400 to 500 CE)

The binding of peasants to the land as part of the development of feudal society

Areas of the world that were ever part of the British Empire (current British overseas possessions underlined in red). Which of the following was not a primary reason India was such a pivotal colony under Britain during the age of imperialism?

There were more British settlers in India than any other colony

In the eighteenth century, which of the following contributed most directly to the change in the volume of silver trade on the Southern African route?

The expanded activities of chartered and joint-stock companies

The image below is a castas painting which depicts which of the following?

The mixing of races

The Little Ice Age, which lasted from 1300 to 1850 C.E., likely had the strongest effect on which of the following?

The severity of the Black Death

20th Century International Events: -Berlin Blockade 1948 -Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 -Brezhnev Doctrine 1968 How did the events listed above affect international relations and politics?

These events intensified Cold War conflicts and tensions

traditional fez gear is associated with the industrialization of which area?

Turkey

Which of the following European explorers was the first to sail around Africa (The Cape of Good Hope) to India?

Vasco da Gama

The series of treaties that were signed at the end of World War I were negotiated at:

Versailles

A knotted quipu necklace represents

a developing a system of record keeping despite having no written language

Latin American military leaders (liked the one depicted here) who helped to keep order by a show of force were called what?

caudillos

The Great Mosque of Djenné, in the West African country of Mali. The image demonstrates which historical concept?

cultural diffusion

The rainy and dry seasons in the Indian Ocean demonstrates the influence of( map showing monsoon winds in the Indian Ocean)?

monsoons

What method did Mohandas Gandhi use to achieve the goal of Indian Independence?

nonviolent civil disobedience

The photograph above best demonstrates which historical era?

the Age of Revolutions