Chapter 16 World History

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

All members would work at diverse tasks, in comfort.

What did the Islamic revitalization movements of the early nineteenth century have in common with the Taiping movement in China?

Both provided new opportunities to claim political and spiritual legitimacy.

All of the following groups supported Usman dan Fodio's revolt against the Hausa city-states EXCEPT:

Hausa landlords.

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.

How did the status of Islam in West Africa change after the establishment of the Sokoto caliphate?

It changed from a minority religion to the majority religion in the region.

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 resources and defend against their enemies.

All of the following contributed to the beliefs and goals of the Taiping Rebellion EXCEPT:

Orthodox Confucian beliefs.

Which of the following was NOT a change made by the British in their approach to ruling India after 1857?

The British began to use railroads, roads, and telegraph lines to link the region together and make it easier to govern effectively.

What happened in the aftermath of the Shawnee rebellion?

The U.S. government relocated most Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.

How did the Greeks use nationalist arguments in support of their fight for independence during the 1820s?

They cited the classical tradition and their membership in the community of Christians.

What message did Tecumseh spread among the Indians of the Great Lakes region?

They should unify and stop selling land to the Americans.

When the Mayans of the Yucatan peninsula revolted against the Mexican government in 1847, what was their initial demand?

They wanted political equality with other Mexicans.

What was the outcome of the 1848 revolutions in Europe?

a crackdown by reactionary governments

What event sparked the Indian Mutiny of 1857?

a rumor that cow and pig fat had been used to grease the cartridges used in soldiers' rifles

What did Marx and Engels believe would be the outcome of the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

a victory by the proletariat that would result in the destruction of capitalism, the end of private property, and the eventual withering away of the state

When the Shawnee and other Native Americans wanted to cooperate with U.S. government officials and Christian missionaries, they were asked to do all of the following EXCEPT:

abandon their native language.

How did non-Indian Mexicans view the Mayan rebellion they called the Caste War?

as a battle between forward-looking Mexican liberals and backward-looking Indians

Peasant participation in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 was characterized by:

attacks on people and places that represented their oppression, both Indian and British.

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

because their arguments were rooted in a materialist view of history

Viewed collectively, the actions of rebels and dissidents in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reflected:

both local traditions and levels of contact with global trade networks and European power.

How did the Mayan rebels express their increasing desire for cultural autonomy?

by creating a new political, moral, and religious system that was almost entirely divorced from the rest of Mexico

What form of government was most common in post-Napoleonic Europe?

conservative monarchy

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

creating full-scale theocratic polities

How did nationalist thinkers define "the nation"?

in terms of a common language and common history

Which of the following did NOT contribute to social and political instability in China after the Opium War?

increased standards of living among the peasantry

Generally speaking, the Taiping Rebellion failed because:

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

The Shawnee Prophet addressed his message of renewal to:

members of many Indian tribes.

Charles Fourier's phalanxes excluded which of these groups?

merchants

Which indigenous group benefited from the British East India Company's changing policies in the years leading up to the 1857 Indian Rebellion?

moneylenders

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

people who felt threatened by the increasing pace of commerce and intellectual change

Utopian socialist thinkers believed in creating change by using _______.

planning

The goals of reactionaries in Europe during the Restoration period included all of the following EXCEPT:

reversal of the beginnings of industrialization.

Tenskwatawa advised his followers to do all of the following EXCEPT:

stop fighting battles.

In which area did liberal thinkers fail to exert influence?

the Austrian Empire

Wahhabi Islam was a threat to the political power of _______.

the Ottoman Empire

The international order that began to emerge during the nineteenth century was based on all of the following EXCEPT:

the emergence of international law.

Islamic reformers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were inspired by:

the life of Muhammad and early Islamic practice.

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic shared among the Shawnee, Maya, and Indian rebellions against colonial control?

the use of prophecy to encourage resistance

Charles Fourier can best be described as a(n) _______.

utopian socialist

For Marx and Engels, the key conflict in nineteenth-century European society was between:

workers and capitalists.