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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