Final Review

Question 0

Which of the following areas was not successfully defended by the catholic reformation?

Answer 0

The Netherlands

Question 1

Which of the following statements about the renaissance is not accurate?

Answer 1

The renaissance failed to develop any new ideas concerning political organisation.

Question 2

Which of the following statements most accurately describes a change in popular mentality as a result of the Protestant reformation?

Answer 2

Protestants and Catholics considered the family in more positive terms, not simply as an institution necessary because of human lust.

Question 3

Which of the following was not one of the new areas brought into the global commercial network after 1450?

Answer 3

Scandinavia

Question 4

The British were able to oust the French from India following the

Answer 4

Seven years war

Question 5

Which of the following represents an impact of the development of colonies on Western Europe?

Answer 5

The use of colonially produced sugar spread widely in Europe, particularly in countries with relatively cold climates

Question 6

What percentage of Russian population remained rural in the eighteenth century?

Answer 6

95%

Question 7

How did Caribbean cities differ from those of Europe?

Answer 7

American cities were laid out in a grid plan

Question 8

The Brazilian model of a plantation colony was later followed in the eighteenth century by other European nations in

Answer 8

The Caribbean

Question 9

What conditions under cut the position of the Brazilian sugar plantation economy?

Answer 9

Competition from English, French, and Dutch plantation colonies in the Caribbean led to rising prices for slaves and falling prices for sugar

Question 10

What was the negative impact of the discovery of gold on Portugal?

Answer 10

Portugal failed to develop internal industries because the supply of hold allowed the Portuguese to purchase manufactured goods from other European countries

Question 11

What was the I tent of the reformed Spanish policy the commercio libre?

Answer 11

To open trade to the Spanish colonies to cities other than Seville or Cadiz

Question 12

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the state of the Portuguese and Spanish American colonies by the middle of the 18th century?

Answer 12

The American colonies of Spain and Portugal were experiencing considerable growth in population and production capacity

Question 13

Which of the following was not one of the early modern Islamic empires?

Answer 13

Abbasid empire

Question 14

Which of the following statements concerning the relationships of the Muslim empires to the west is not accurate?

Answer 14

The absence of minority people’s within the empires left them without commercial and cultural contacts with the West

Question 15

Which of the following statements about slavery in Europe before 1450 was most accurate?

Answer 15

Slavery had died out of the Middle Ages in most of Europe except along the military frontier between Christians and Muslims in the Mediterranean

Question 16

How did the profitability of the slave trade compare to that of other contemporary business ventures?

Answer 16

The slave trade was little more profitable than most businesses activities of the age and was not a major source for the industrial revolution for Europe

Question 17

That was the political impact of the prescience of Europeans on the African coast?

Answer 17

West and central kingdoms in land began to redirect their trade and expand their influences

Question 18

What area of Africa was least affected by the slave trade?

Answer 18

Southern Africa

Question 19

What was the average mortality for slaves shipped to the Americas in the Atlantic slave trade?

Answer 19

18-20 percent

Question 20

Which of the following was not an impact of the renaissance on politics and commerce?

Answer 20

Under humanist influence, wars among Italian city-states became less frequent and violent

Question 21

What was one of the primary differences between the northern and Italian renaissance?

Answer 21

Northern humanists focused more on religion than their Italian counterparts

Question 22

What was the European style family pattern that emerged in the 15th cen?

Answer 22

Nuclear families, late marriage ages

Question 23

Which of the following was not a religious proposition advanced by Martin Luther?

Answer 23

Priests should practice celibacy

Question 24

Inflation and commercialisation in the west produced a group of people without access to producing property called the

Answer 24

Proletariat

Question 25

How did the western view of science compare with that of other civilisations?

Answer 25

The west was not alone in developing crucial scientific data, but it’s thinkers were the only ones to see science in broader philosophical terms as central to intellectual life

Question 26

Why were Africans sought for plantation labour in the Americas?

Answer 26

Africans rapidly expanded their population in the Latin American colonies

Question 27

Which of the following statements concerning slave families is most accurate?

Answer 27

Despite enormous difficulties, slaves continued to live in their family units

Question 28

Which of the following statements concerning the impact of the French rev. on the rest of Europe is not accurate?

Answer 28

The French rev and it’s subsequent empire created a general consensus after the defeat of France for a more liberal Europe

Question 29

What movement of artisans and workers in the 1830’s and 40’s armed at obtaining the vote for all males?

Answer 29

Chartists

Question 30

Which of the following statements concerning the rev. of 1848 is most accurate?

Answer 30

Nationalist agitation failed, as the armies of Russia and Austria-Hungary restored the political status quo.

Question 31

Which of the following was not a motive for expansion in the late nineteenth cen?

Answer 31

The absence of influence of political leaders in the European countries

Question 32

Which of the following statements concerning the internal economics of the European colonies is most accurate?

Answer 32

Colonial economies were steadily reduced to dependence on the Europe-dominated global market

Question 33

Which of the following is not a similarity between South Africa and Australia?

Answer 33

Both were settled at approximately the same time

Question 34

What event set the Boer colony in South Africa on a different path than the white dominions of Canada and Australia?

Answer 34

The annexation of the colony by the British in 1815

Question 35

Prior to 1902, what type of colony was South Africa?

Answer 35

Contested settler colony

Question 36

Which of the following nations did not enter the competitive race for colonial empire and industrial supremacy after 1870?

Answer 36

Spain

Question 37

Which of the following was not a feature of twentieth-century world history?

Answer 37

A lessening of conflict

Question 38

Which of the following was not an event leading to the outbreak of WW1?

Answer 38

France’s invasion of Belgium

Question 39

By 1916, conflict on the western front

Answer 39

Had settled into a deadly stale meant in which hundreds of thousands of lives were expanded for a few feet of trench

Question 40

By 1917 the war on the eastern front

Answer 40

Led to major revolution in Russia that toppled the tsarist government

Question 41

Adolph Hitler was the political and ideological leader of the

Answer 41

National socialist party

Question 42

All of the following policies were followed by soviet sponsored regimes in Eastern Europe except

Answer 42

The establishment of parliamentary democracies

Question 43

Despite the loosening of soviet control over Eastern Europe following Stalin’s death, what aspects of soviet domination continued to be enforced?

Answer 43

Single-party dominance and military alignment with the Soviet Union

Question 44

The communist party was run by a top committee, the

Answer 44

Politburo

Question 45

Which of the following was not a source of pressure on the soviet family?

Answer 45

Religious constraints imposed by the Orthodox Church

Question 46

Immediately after Stalin’s death in 1953, what form of government was established?

Answer 46

A ruling committee rather than a single-man rule

Question 47

What was the outcome of the dinshawai incident in Egypt?

Answer 47

Mass support, including the emergence of the of the aryan alliance, for the national cause free in Egypt

Question 48

What document during WW2 included a clause that recognised “the right of all people to choose the form of gov. under where they live”?

Answer 48

The Atlantic charter

Question 49

Who emerged as the head of the nationalist party and defacto ruler of china by the late 1920’s?

Answer 49

Chaing Kai-shek

Question 50

The communist victory over the nationalist forces was achieved following chiamps withdrawal to Taiwan in

Answer 50

1949

Question 51

What was the impact of the Japanese invasion on the relative strengths of the struggle in china between the nationalist party and the communist party?

Answer 51

Japanese victories robbed the nationalists of their supporters in the southern cities and diminished chaing’s military reputation as saviour of china

Question 52

In what way was the Chinese communist take over of china different than the Bolshevik seizure and power in Russia?

Answer 52

The Chinese communists claimed a unified country and did not experience years of civil war and foreign intervention

Question 53

Which of the following statements concerning Chinese foreign policy during the 1950s and 60s is not accurate?

Answer 53

China was able to achieve a close alliance with the emerging third world gov. in India as a means of uniting the major powers of Asia

Question 54

Which of the following statements concerning Chinese domestic policies during the 1950s and 60s is most accurate?

Answer 54

With the intro of the first five year plan in 1953, the communist leadership turned away from the peasantry

Question 55

Which of the following “pragmatists” come to power following Mao’s fall in 1960?

Answer 55

Zhou enlai

Question 56

The “gang of four” were

Answer 56

Jiang Qing and three allies who contested for power with the “pragmatists” on behalf of the waging war

Question 57

The communist-dominated nationalist movement in Vietnam during WW1 was called the

Answer 57

Viet Minh

Question 58

The Vietnamese nationalists in 1954 decisively defeated the French at the battle of

Answer 58

Dien Bien Phu

Question 59

Communist opposition to the US supported gov. in south Vietnam was referred to as the

Answer 59

Viet Cong