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Proponents of "scientific racism" argued that

All of the above

The Mughal dynasty fell primarily because

All of the above

Which of the following could not be considered a contributing cause of the Russian Revolution of 1905?

All of the above are factors in the Revolution of 1905

By 1913, all of the following provinces gained either independence or autonomy from Ottoman control except

Anatolia

Which of the following is not true about the settlement of Australia?

Australia became a multicultural society, drawing settlers from all over the Pacific

The Russian empire was defeated in the Crimean War because

Britain and France joined forces to prevent Russian expansion into the Ottoman empire

Which of the following was not an economic motivation for imperialism?

European and American industry needed more sources of coal

The battle of Omdurman clearly demonstrated that

European troops with modern weapons could subdue a vast native army

Which of the following would not be typical of labor migration patterns in the age of empire?

German migrants to plantations in the Congo

Which of the following was not a provision of the treaty of Nanjing in 1842?

Japan gained control of the island of Taiwan

The Taiping rebellion was defeated when

Nanjing was defeated by a combined force of imperial and European soldiers

Why had most European governments abandoned concessionary companies in Africa by the early twentieth century?

The brutal use of forced African labor by companies provoked a public outcry in Europe

Which of the following was not a provision of the Meiji constitution?

The lower classes were represented in the lower chamber of the Diet

Which of the Young Turk proposals caused the most dissension in the empire?

Turkish as the official language of the empire

In China, a "sphere of influence" was

a district in which a foreign power had exclusive trade, transportation, and mineral rights

By 1800, the Dutch Afrikaners in South Africa had established

a settler colony based on slavery and white supremacy

One social goal of the British authorities in India was to

abolish the custom of burning widows with their husbands' bodies

Colonial rule dramatically altered the environment in which of the following places?

all of the above

The Ottoman military had declined by the nineteenth century because

all of the above

The emancipation of Russian serfs in 1861 did

all of the above

The United States acquired Hawaii by

annexing the islands after American planters had overthrown the monarchy

The most significant achievement of the sultan Mahmud II was

creation of a modern army

Under British imperial rule, India was governed

directly, with British bureaucrats and officers overseeing Indian civil servants and soldiers

Pressure for reform in British India came from

educated Indians seeking self-rule

Unlike the British in India, the French in Indochina

encouraged conversion to Christianity

The "capitulations" were humiliating concessions to the west that

held European citizens exempt from Ottoman laws and taxes

The British insisted on their right to trade opium with China because

it was the only trade good that they could sell in China at a profit

The capital for the early industrialization of Meiji Japan came primarily from

land taxes

Nineteenth-century empires differed from earlier empires because

modern empires were able to thoroughly dominate the economies of their colonies

Which of the following was not part of Count Witte's policy of industrialization?

nationalization of key industries such as coal and steel

Japanese imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century was primarily motivated by

resentment at the unequal treaties forced on them by the United States

The Berlin Conference in 1884-1885 established

that, if a European power indicated its intention to colonize and then proceeded to occupy an African territory, it could claim that colony

One striking difference between the British and the French imperial models in Africa is that

the British preferred to use local institutions to control subject populations

The Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown because

the Japanese were outraged by the unequal treaty forced on them by Commodore Perry

The colonization of the Belgian Congo is noted for

the brutal treatment of the Congolese people by King Leopold II

All of the following improved communication between India and Britain except

the completion of the Panama Canal

The success of the Meiji restoration depended on destroying the power of

the daimyo and samurai classes

The scramble for Pacific island colonies in the late nineteenth century was motivated by

the desire for strategic ports and refueling stations in the Pacific Ocean

The "white man's burden" proposed by Rudyard Kipling refers to

the moral duty of the west to work to "civilize" the rest of the world

The Russian intelligentsia promoted terrorism as a strategy for political reform because

their attempts at more peaceful reform were crushed by the tsarist authorities

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman empire, Russian empire, Qing dynasty, and Tokugawa Japan were "societies at crossroads" because

they discovered through wars and confrontations that they were militarily much weaker than the western powers

In the early twentieth century the United States frequently sent troops into Central America

to protect American business interests there

British rule undermined the Indian cotton industry by

undercutting the cost of Indian cloth with cheap British textiles

Tanzimat legal reforms included all of the following rights except

women's right to sue for divorce


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