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On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed at Sarajevo; he was heir to

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Austria

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The traveler and her husband, John Reed, were eyewitnesses and left important accounts of

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The Russian revolution

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What does the text refer to when it notes that some forms of war included “attacking without warning”?

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German submarine attacks

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Britain formed an alliance with group, hoping to undermine the Ottoman Empire?

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Arab leaders

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As the war ended, the world’s worst outbreak of ____ killed tens of millions?

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Influenza

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According to Louise Bryant, the chapter’s traveler, Lenin possessed all of the following qualities to put the Bolsheviks in a position of power

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Expecting Russia to win the war against Germany

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Stalin’s Idea of Soviet Progress was through

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A top-down government control of every aspect of economic, political, and social life

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Brazil was hit hard by the global market by the increase in demand for

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Coffee

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The middle class, who initially supported Mussolini, grew disenchanted with his use of

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Violence

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Which of the following is not associated with Germany before Hitler

  • Germans were humiliated by the Versailles Treaty
  • Reparations devastated Germany recovery
  • The Great Depression ended German economic recovery
  • The United States conducted an oppressive occupation of Germany
  • German fascist and communist groups were gaining in strength
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The United States conducted an oppressive occupation of Germany

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Hitler promised a Third Reich that would last

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1000 years

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Hitler’s edicts

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Required that all private or civil organizations be approved by the local or regional governments

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Which of the following groups exemplified the statement, “Stalin was waging war on his own people by using the Red Army and secret police.”

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Peasant farmers, Kulaks, Ukrainians, and Bolsheviks

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Even as the threat of German militarization and potential invasion of Russia grew, Stalin

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Ordered the killing and imprisionment of his generals

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Which of the following is associated with the support for changes in Japan’s government after the market collapse of 1929?

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A new emperor, Hirohito, took the throne. The power and influence of the zaibatsu in the government. Increased power of civil service bureaucrats. The requirement that an active military officer serve as Minister of Defense

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Japan, like Italy and Germany, benefited from its aggressive militaristic-nationalistic policies because of all of the following except

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Civilian politicians gained in power

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As a result of the efforts of Mustafa Kemal following World War I, Turkey

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Was recognized as sovereign with the core territories and population of the old empire

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What was one of the causes that lead to Hind Swaraj

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The Amritsar massacre

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Although denied independence after World War I, European powers did allow natives in their colonies of Asia and Africa to

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Fill lower level bureaucratic jobs

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Which of the following brought the United States into direct military confrontation with Germany

  • Chamberlain’s active appeasement
  • Occupation of the Rhineland by Germany
  • Czechoslavakia
  • Hitler and Stalin’s nonaggression pact
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None of these

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were very successful at introducing cattle to the grasslands of the Americas

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The Spanish in the Columbian Exchange

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What food crops were introduced to West Africa, where the climate was very similar to Latin America that contributed to the Columbian Exchange

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Corn and potatoes became tremendously important, as they grew on less arable land than wheat and produced higher yields that led to population growth

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introduced plants and animals into the Americas.

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Columbus

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What diseases contributed to the Columbian Exchange

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Smallpox came and it is probable that the modern form of syphilis traveled from the Americas to Europe

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was the most devastating effect on the Americas.

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smallpox

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refers to all the plants, animals, goods, and diseases that crossed the Atlantic between the Americas and Europe

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Columbian Exchange

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Explain the affects of the smallpox?

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• Had the most devastating effect on the Americas
• Only someone suffering an outbreak can transmit the smallpox
• Contagious about a month
o After 2 weeks of incubation
• Fever and vomiting strike
• Ill person’s skin breaks out with the pox
• Small pustules that dry up about 10 ten days
• Either the victim dies during the 10 days or survives with a pock-marked face and body
• No population statistics exist for the Americas before 1492
• 1/3 of Hispaniola pop died in 1518
• In 1519, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba were devastated by diseases
• Hit Tenochtitlan in 1520 and killed Moctezuma’s successor

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• In the other direction came plant foods indigenous to the Americas like
o Tomatoes, potatoes, peanuts and chili peppers
• No plants and animals were effected
• Exchange in plants and animals indelibly altered
o Landscapes
o Diets

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This transfer was known as the Columbian exchange

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When Columbus landed in Hispaniola

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  • Immediately realized how different the plants were

* Remarked on the absence of livestock

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Although smallpox traveled from Europe to the Americas what raveled as well

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Syphilis traveled as well

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What was the outcome as of syphilis traveling

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  • First well-documented outbreaks of syphilis in Europe occurred around 1945
  • Physician claimed Columbus men brought it to Madrid soon after 1492
  • Could be passed to the next generation and was fatal for about one-quarter of those who contracted it, but it did cause mass deaths
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The two crops in particular played an important role throughout Afro-Eurasia in the columbian exchange

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corn and potatoes including sweet potatoes

-both produced a higher yield that wheat and grew in less desirable fields such as on the slopes of hills

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Although few people anywhere in the world preferred corn or potatoes to what type of diet

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wheat-based or rice based diet

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If main crop failed what did people eat

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Hungry people gratefully ate the American transplants.

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By what century did corn and potatoes reach what lands and what happen to the population

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18th century. India and China, and both places increased markedly

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According to Columbus, the natives he met

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appeared to be timid

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The Incas resembled the ____ because they treated enemies gently if they surrendered

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Monguls

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Which of the following were the Uru required to give to the Inca for their annual tax service?
Fish.
Lice.
Wood.
Wool.
Guild
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Fish

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Which of the following, related to the early explorations of the Portuguese and Spanish, is true?

   - Europeans did not venture beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, fearing a torrid zone.
- Henry the Navigator led a crusade-type attack to capture a fortress in Morocco.
- Cartographers lacked the knowledge to indicate many of the newly-found locations on maps.
- Spain and Portugal felt that natives found in the new areas were not worthy of conversion to Christianity.
- Slavery was never part of early exploration.
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Henry the Navigator led a crusade-type attack to capture a fortress in Morocco.

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All of the following, related to the encomienda system, are true except:

  • its goal was to prevent abusive treatment of the Amerindians.
  • it was established by the Spanish to organize settlers in the Americas.
  • it made enslavement of Amerindians in Spanish territories legal.
  • Spanish settlers were to receive labor from Amerindians in exchange for conversion to Christianity.
  • the system was generally abused by the settlers.
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it made enslavement of Amerindians in Spanish territories legal.

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Which of the following was not a cause for the Dutch to become the predominant commercial power in South Asia?

  • Used force to secure profits.
  • Introduced modern business practices.
  • Developed administrative techniques.
  • Success in spreading Christianity.
  • Advances in ship design and construction.
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Success in spreading Christianity.

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What was the overall effect of the slave trade?

  • Allowed the production of sugar to increase.
  • Never altered the traditional trade in foreign goods in Southeast Asia.
  • Had a major effect on the overall population of African population.
  • Made little change between African-European interactions.
  • Stopped the usual African incidents of warfare among tribes.
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Allowed the production of sugar to increase.

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Akbar’s policy of toleration and inclusion did not include:

  • incorporating Hindu maharajahs into regional and imperial levels of government.
  • granted Hindus freedom of worship
  • treating the Muslims as another caste.
  • changing the tax system so as to eliminate the non-Muslim head tax.
  • challenging the authorities of local and regional rulers and groups.
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challenging the authorities of local and regional rulers and groups.

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How did the Chinese view the rest of the world in the sixteenth century?

  • Since the outside countries were powerful, China would act as a tributary nation.
  • The emperor was the Son of Heaven and ruled by the mandate of heaven, with China being the center of the world.
  • As acceptable barbarians, China would send emissaries to other nations’ courts.
  • China sent scholars to other nations to emulate other cultures.
  • The emperors made visits to the more powerful outside nations.
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The emperor was the Son of Heaven and ruled by the mandate of heaven, with China being the center of the world

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The Japanese emperor

  • had the strong support of the military.
  • was a strong religious leader.
  • had power because he had the support of Ming China.
  • as a Buddhist, had great power over his people.
  • was a ritual leader with no real power.
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was a ritual leader with no real power

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When Ricci arrived in China, he first associated with Buddhists monks, but discovered that he had to make which of the following changes to make contact with important court officials who were close to the emperor?

  • Shave his head.
  • Grow a beard.
  • Change his appearance and dress.
  • Learn to speak Chinese.
  • Present lavish and very rich gifts to the emperor.
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Change his appearance and dress.

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The powerful states on the rise in the sixteenth century in Eurasia did not include

  • Ottomans.
  • Mughal India.
  • Russia.
  • Safavid Iran.
  • Italy.
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Italy

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Upon the takeover of the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley by the Ottomans, what cultural boundary was established?

  • One between Persian and European cultural influences.
  • One between Turkish and Arabic languages.
  • One between gunpowder and practical hand weapons.
  • One between Sunni and Sufi minorities.
  • One between Sunni-Shi’ite majorities and Arabic-Persian languages.
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One between Sunni-Shi’ite majorities and Arabic-Persian languages.

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The tension between the Habsburgs and England involved
an English threat to invade the Habsburg Netherlands.
-an English-French royal marriage that threatened Habsburg power in Europe.
-Queen Elizabeth’s conflict with Habsburg’s Catholic Spain.
-an English-Prussian alliance that created a large land army.
-a Habsburg-Ottoman alliance that threatened British trade in the Mediterranean.

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Queen Elizabeth’s conflict with Habsburg’s Catholic Spain.

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After the death of Elizabeth, England was racked by discontent, which included:

  • the demand that the throne revert back to Catholicism.
  • the legality of the Anglican Church.
  • the need to centralize power in Parliament.
  • a growing discontent with the Stuart kings by both the church and the public.
  • resentment of parliamentary power.
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a growing discontent with the Stuart kings by both the church and the public.

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In 1367 replaced the Mongol dynasty

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Ming Dynasty

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Rulers were highly conscious of the need to restore Confucian virtue after years of what they saw as a Barbarian rule

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Ming Dynasty

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Like earlier Chinese dynasties, the Ming defined their country as the

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Middle Kingdom

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The Ming emperor was called

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Son of Heaven

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China was where in the world and the ruler with the

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The center of the World and the ruler ruled with the Mandate of Heaven

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