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How would life in Fourier's phalanx qualify as a reform of Restoration Europe's economic order?

All members would work at diverse tasks, for short periods of time

Why did Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels call their theories "scientific" socialism?

Because their arguments were rooted in a materialist view of history

In what way did the Mayans who followed José María Barrera resemble the Chinese who followed Hong in the Taiping Rebellion?

Both the Mayans and the Chinese followed visionaries who formed alternative religions that combined Christian beliefs, symbols, and rituals with traditional beliefs and legends.

Which of the following was the most important device used by Mexicans to lure Mayans into plantation labor?

Debt peonage forced fathers and sons to work for low wages on sugar plantations.

The leaders of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Islamic revitalization movements sought to reestablish the glory of Islam through which practice?

Establishing new religiously-based governments in lands already under Muslim control

Which of the following groups supported Usman dan Fodio's revolt against the Hausa city-states?

Fulani tribespeople

What aspect of his reputation did Abd al-Qadir rely upon while organizing resistance to the French in Algeria?

His religious and scholarly credibility

How did the worldview and strategy of Hong Xiuquan differ from those of reform leaders in the Muslim world?

Hong fused foreign and domestic traditions to pursue his aims.

What change did the British East India Company make in its approach to ruling India during the 1840s?

It annexed more land and stripped native aristocrats of their privileges.

What was one of the reasons for the collapse of the Taiping Rebellion?

It failed to attract strong support from the landed gentry and other elite groups.

Hong Xiuquan believed that he was:

Jesus's younger brother sent to rid the world of evil.

Why did small-scale settlements in southern Africa give way to larger states during the early nineteenth century?

Larger states were better equipped to compete for limited land and resources.

The Taiping Rebellion was a nineteenth-century example of what Chinese tradition?

Millenarian peasant revolts

Why did American officials fear Tecumseh's message even more than his brother's?

Officials feared that Tecumseh's attempt to create a confederation of Native American tribes could lead to a nation comparable to that of the Aztecs.

Which of the following groups was most attracted to Wahhabi Islam?

People who felt threatened by new commercial activities and the increasing pace of intellectual change

The impetus of Mohammad Ibn al-Wahhab's Islamic reform movement was a reaction to which of the following?

Polytheistic beliefs that had taken root among some Muslims

On what idea could disparate groups of radicals agree?

Popular sovereignty

Which of the following was required of Shawnee culture if they were to be able to cooperate with U.S. government officials?

That men rather than women take over farming

Which of the following characterized the British counterinsurgency effort in India?

The British responded brutally; villages were destroyed and leaders were tied to cannons and executed.

From which groups did European nationalist movements draw their greatest number of supporters?

The liberal aristocracy and the commercial middle class

In what way did nineteenth-century nationalist goals prove destructive in the twentieth century?

The nationalist goals of different groups proved incompatible with one another.

Which of the following is a similarity between the goals of Hong, the leaders of the Islamic revitalization movements, and Shaka?

They all sought to restore lost harmony and perceived the present world as unjust.

What did the groups that led the 1848 revolutions in Europe have in common?

They shared a desire for independent nations and to overthrow the existing elites.

What was a goal of the Mayans in the Yucatan peninsula when they revolted against the Mexican government in 1847?

They wanted political equality with other Mexicans.

Marx and Engels believed that the conflict between proletariat and bourgeoisie would be succeeded by other stages of class conflict.

false

After the 1857 Indian Rebellion, Queen Victoria promised a range of policies, including religious toleration, the honoring of treaties, and permitting Indians to serve in government.

true

In the Caste War, the Maya were finally defeated because the Mexican war with the United States ended in 1848.

true