hist test 2
by 1903, _______ had enhanced the power and range of his device enough to send the first transatlantic radio message, from Cape Cod in the US to Cornwall in England
Marconi
among the factors that made industrialization in belgium northern france and the northern german states more suitable in the 1830s than earlier in the century was
an improved network of roads, canals and
becoming a successful city- state in time _____ excluded both the Creoles living in the countryside and the rural amerindians
buenos aires
during the nineteenth century, many of the new latin nations wanted to limit the authority of the ___________
catholic church
the western powers held the view that china was a zero sum gain trading partner because:
china only took in funds and no other goods, creating a drain on the economies who they interacted with
the spinning mule, invented in 1779
considered the spinning and weaving of textiles into one machine
among other measures, the service proposed by Sergei White
converted to the gold standard in order to stablize the currency
until that point, ________ in the mediterranean was a condoned. officially sanctioned activity. eurpoean states employed the practice to maintain ......................
corsairing
sultan abdulhamit used the russian ottoman war of 1977-8178 as an excuse to
dismiss the ottoman parliment and rule by decree
in 1900 sigmund freud has his highly influential book on The Interpretation of ___________, which developed his ideas of the subconscious mind
dreams
the moji constitution did all of the following except
ensure that the appearance
after he had ________ and suffered a nervous breakdown, Hong Xiquan came to believe that he was Christ's younger brother
failed his civil service examination for the third time
as a result of a british and french raid on Beijing in 1860 a newly created chinese board was to handle Qing _________, and the chinese were invited to send their own ambassadors abroad
foreign relations
____ argued that rational thought would not improve either the individual or the welfare of human kind only to recourse to the "wall to power" will suffice life, after all is meaningless according to this thinker
freid....
for the first time in its long history, the ottoman empire turned outward for help, asking western european powers to aid it against the ________.................................._______
french
in 1832, _____ became independent of ottoman rule in war of liberation, and it was the first country in which ethnic nationalism was an element in its foundation
greece
the movement to bring about the (talping tianguo) on earth became known as the taiping rebellion and was headed by the former confucian follower hong xiuquan
heavenly kingdom of great peace
Ferdinand von Zeppelin's dirigible airship was kept aloft by the incorporation of bags filled with _____ gas
hydrogen
the ottoman vassal in Egypt, Muhammad Ali rose in rebellion and would have conquered ______ had european forced not intervened
istanbul
one advantage enjoyed by Germany in its production of steel was:
its development of sophisticated science research
_________ was an Austrian, french-backed emperor of mexico from 1864-1867
max
the descembrist revolt was fed by a small # of _____ in 1825 but it was quickly suppressed and its leaders were hanged
military officers whos
execution of emperor mazimillian of mexico, a testament to the art style of _______ was painted by _______
modernity, edourard manet
Ottoman troops were able to repress nationalist agitators in macedonia in the 1890s because:
none of the groups received outside support in their effort
the culmination of the trend to incorporate western models into the japanese ______ was ajfhkjahfjk
novel
shites are unique in having a small number, about half a dozen today of _________ [signs of god] who are distinguished by their knowledge of the Quran and islamic conditions
Ayatoliahs
with the ascension of the infant Guangxu as emperor in 1874 came to the regency of empress dowager ________.
Cixi
the most famous - and most radical - of british political feminists was _____ who together with her daughters formed the women's social and political union in 1903
Emmeline
by the end of the eighteenth century, the illegal trade in _______, or foreign mud constituted the most profitable import commodity in china, especially around the areas of Guangzhou (canton)
opium
Gran Columbia was divided in 1831 into its component parts, which included all of the following EXCEPT
peru
the _______ loss of the war and the pacific (1879-1884) resulted in the annexation of some of its territory and mines together with the destruction wrought by the enemy's troops
peruvian
when latin american republics declared their independence the Vatican in Rome
refused to recognize their independence concerned with the power of naming bishops
________ was deeply impressed in 1804 when he witnessed:
simon bolivar: the conclusion of napolean as emperor in PAris
in the 1870s, conservative intellectuals broadened the conceptualization of Russian nationality into an ideology of pan-__-
slavism
the empress dowager prompted a world in the western world thanks to her backing of the
the boxers
the novel ______ written by cao fjakhfdjk is considered to be the greatest literary masterpiece of the Q.......
the dream of the red chamber
among the innovative measures proposed by NIkolai Fjkdjhjks in his novel What is to be done?
the liberation of women
all of the following technological innovations were important to mechanization EXCEPT:
the static shuttle