AP WORLD CONCEPT REVIEW
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What common quality does both the French and Russian revolutions possess?
The radical phase of both revolts was promulgated by foreign invasion
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What common component did the Chinese and Mexican revolutions possess?
Land distribution
Who are the more prominent prophet’s of the Quran?
Mohammad, Jesus, Ibraham, Moses, Noah
Describe the basic characteristics of Impressionist painting and provide examples
Landscapes, emphasis on light; Monet and Cezanne
What was the primary reason for the decline of the Han and Imperial Roman empires?
Corruption and invasion
What were the primary causes of WWII in Europe?
Treaty of Versailles, economic conditions, appeasement, rearmament, lebensraum
What is the primary characteristic of the Neolithic “revolution?”
Settled communities
What are the characteristics of mercantilism?
Colonization; Import raw, export finished; government subsidization; mother country becomes self-sufficient
What is the most significant political difference between Han China and classical India?
The Chinese recognized bureaucracy and meritocracy
Why did the Chinese government stop their voyages of discovery in the early 15th century?
Internal dissension, Japanese pirates; construction of the Grand Canal
Prior to the Voyages of Discovery, what regions of the world did the Middle East trade with?
Africa, South Asia, East Asia
What 16th-century language was created as the result of two societies colliding?
Swahili
Judaism is based on a covenant between God and __________.
The people
I will name the timeframe, you identify the manufacturing center of the world:
500 BCE --- Mediterranean
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--- Mediterranean
500 CE --- Nowhere
1000
--- China
1500
--- China
15. What regions of the world had the greatest influence on southeast Asia in the year 1000?
India and China
16. Trade brought which faith to Indonesia?
Islam and Hinduism
17. What classical civilization helped dar al-Islam in its medical research?
Greece
18. What does renaissance Italy and the Abbasid dynasty have in common?
In both cultures political fragmentation accompanied cultural creativity
19. What east Asian culture was never conquered by the Mongols?
Japan
20. Why was the Spanish able to defeat the Aztec Empire?
Dissension within the Aztec Empire
21. What ethnic group dominated Anatolian politics in the 11th century?
Ottoman
22. What are the Christians of Ethiopia called?
Coptic
23. Chinese respect for authority is called ___________.
Filial Piety
24. What were the Muslims of north Africa called?
Bedouins
25. Who was the real power broker in Japan between 1600-1854?
The Shogun
26. Why did Christianity not receive wide acceptance in China?
Evil spirits, hell
27. What were the two most profitable products produced by slave labor in the New World?
Tobacco and sugar
28. I will provide the encomienda characteristic and you provide the term
Pure-bred Spanish
--peninsulare
Spanish descent, born in colonies
--creole
Spanish and native intermarriage --mestizo
European and African intermarriage
--mulatto
Free blacks
--Gens de Coleur
29. What religion is centered on the elimination of desire and suffering?
Buddhism
30. What do Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola have in common?
Jesuit missionaries
31. What treaty was created to stop Portuguese and Spanish bickering in the New World?
The Treaties of Tordesillas
32. Which group was the minority and which group was the majority in Mughal India?
Majority =
Hindu;
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Muslim
33. The political terms “left” and “right” were first used in which revolution?
French
34. What common characteristic is possessed by the causes of both the Ottoman and Mughal empires?
Both were created by nomadic norseman
35. What topic might social historians study?
Family, gender relations, demographic studies, religious development
36. What region of the world discouraged interaction with foreign countries in the 17th and 18th centuries?
East Asia
37. Besides the New World, identify three Spanish possessions in the 16th century.
Iberian possession, Spanish Netherlands, southern Italy
38. What Asian products were supplied by New World silver to Europe between 1450-1750?
Silk, porcelain, spices
39. What Christian group was condemned at Nicaea and believed that Christ had two personas
Nestorians
40. When global slave trade declined in the 19th century, in which continent did it increase?
Africa
41. What did 19th-century western liberals see as the role of women?
The mother of citizens; (Cult of Domesticity); purveyor of morality
42. Who was the wealthiest person in the world in the 14th century?
Mansa Musa
43. More than anything else, what was the key to European global dominance in the 19th century?
The Industrial Revolution
44. Identify three “pax”s in history
Romana Mongolica Britannia
45. Identify two regions where slavery was abolished in the 1860s.
Russia and United States
46. I will identify the century, you identify the country that dominated the Atlantic during that time:
16th:
Spain
17th:
Dutch
18th:
British
19th:
British
20th:
U.S.
47. What was the most dynamic ism of the 19th century?
Nationalism
48. Controlled nationalist forces (also called the Kuomintang) in China in the first half of the 20th century:
Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi),
49. Who promoted industrialism in late 19th-century Japan?
Meiji reformers
50. What is the term for the expulsion of Moors from Spain between 1000-1492?
The Reconquista
51. The last colony in the mainland of the New World to become independent was __________.
Brazil
52. Who was the Egyptian president that nationalized the Suez Canal and favored Pan-Arabism?
Gamal Nasser
53. Why did East Asian economies become powerhouses in the 1980s and 1990s?
Producing quality products for export
54. What is the primary difference between Chinese and Japanese emperors?
The Japanese emperors were primarily figureheads
55. What sub-Saharan nation has the greatest percentage of its population with European ancestry?
South Africa
56. What gathering of European nations justified the imperialistic carving of Africa?
The Berlin Conference
57. Besides India, what countries were created by the British independence of that region?
Pakistan
58. The precursors of the Aztecs between the 8-12 centuries was
The Toltecs
59. What discouraged mechanization in imperial Rome?
slavery
60. What enabled sailors to sail into the wind?
The lateen sail
61. What was England’s biggest import in the 19th century?
Cotton
62. What caused the Bantu diaspora?
Knowledge of agriculture and iron
63. Why did Russia enter the Russo-Japanese War?
To get Manchuria
64. What Chinese ism demands unquestioned loyalty to superiors?
Daoism
65. What two religions allow for female monasticism?
Buddhism and Christianity
66. Where was the only successful slave insurrection in history?
Haiti
67. Which Chinese dynasty developed the examination system?
Tang
68. What did the cultures of Africa contribute to the cultures of the Americas?
Folklore religion music
crops
69. What classical Greek philosopher advocated “may the force be with you?”
Aristotle
70. I will name the cultural practice that inhibited women, you identify the region or country:
Footbinding
China
White Face Paint
Japan
Corsets
western Europe
71. Which region of the world experienced the most dramatic decline in urbanization at the end of the foundations era?
Western Europe
72. What aided 19th century European expansion into Asia and Africa?
Military technology medical improvements
steamship
Industrial revolution
73. What similarities exist between Aztecs and Incans?
Regional trade
human sacrifice
military conquest
74. Why was Japan more successful than China in resisting imperialist encroachment?
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--absence of natural resources
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--aggressive foreign policy of Japan
What similarities do you see in the Social Contract Theory and the Mandate of Heaven?
They both justified revolution
Who dominated the Mediterranean Sea in the 16th century?
Italy and the Ottoman Empire
What 12 century- empire extended from Korea to eastern Europe?
Mongol
Pol Pot is identified with what Asian revolution?
Khmer Rouge
How far west did Zheng He get?
East Africa
What common characteristics did both Russia and Japan possess on the eve of WWI?
Rapid industrialization
How did Spain govern its New World properties?
Through appointed viceroys
What common characteristics were possessed by European colonizers in the New World and Southeast Asia?
Both used forced labor
What product did both Asia and Africa want from Europe in the 19th century?
weapons
What improved European life expectancy between 1450-1750?
New World food
What was the common characteristic between the Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian empires
Their multi-ethnicities
What is the basic ideological difference between Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin?
Lenin believed a communist revolution needed professional leadership
What similarities existed between Gandhi and Mao?
Both sought the support of the peasantry
What distinguished European presence in Africa prior to 1870?
Limited to coastal regions
Historically, what has been the relationship between communism and gender equality?
Communism has encouraged it
What three commodities characterized the Second Industrial Revolution in the last half of the 19th century?
Steel, electricity, chemicals
What were the two largest cities in North America in 1491?
Teotihuacan and Cahokia
What common goal was shared by the American Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The protection of private property
What late 19th-century characteristic of imperialism was shared between Asia and Africa?
Competition between European powers
What did the Kamikaze (Divine Wind) and the Protestant Wind have in common?
They both frustrated the enemy invader of an island nation
What three characteristics drove discrimination in Latin America in the 19th century?
Skin color former slave status
ethnicity
I will name the founder, you name the faith:
Ahura Mazda
Zoroastrianism
Ibrahim
Judaism
Siddhartha Gautama Buddhism
Lao-tze
Daoism
Kung Fu-tzu
Confucianism
Mohammad
Islam
Vardhamana
Jainism
What are the two primary reasons for the rise in population during the 20th century?
The Green Revolution and improvements in public health
What is being described in this quote”
“And what, oh priests, is the noble truth of the path leading to the cessation of misery? It is . . . right belief, right resolve, right
speech, right behavior, right occupation, right effort, right contemplation, right concentration.”
Buddhism
99. What common characteristic is present in the lives of many leaders of mid-to-late 20th century African decolonization?
They spent time in prison
100. What common characteristic is shared by the Haitian and American revolutions?
They both granted equality to their citizens
101. Who determined current political boundaries in Africa and the Middle East?
European powers
102. What product linked Great Britain, India, and China in the 19th century?
Opium
103. What nation experienced the greatest war-related deaths in WWII?
The Soviet Union
104. What do Ho Chi Minh, Jomo Kenyatta, and Kwame Nkrumah have in common?
They all opposed colonial rule
105. What economic priorities did India and China make in the decade after WWII?
Industrial development
106. What major difference existed between British, American, and Japanese industrialization?
Japanese industrialism was sponsored by the state
107. What has been happening to worldwide family size since the end of WWII?
It has been decreasing
108. Cite 5 epidemics in the last 500 years
Epidemics in 16th-century MesoAmerica
The Cholera epidemic
Influenza, 1918
Spread of syphilis
Spread of AIDS
109. Which countries in north Africa retained a Christian presence following the spread of Islam?
Egypt and Ethiopia (Coptic)
110. What common quality existed in labor relations in Russia and the U.S. in the 1860s?
They both eliminated slavery in that decade
111. What common characteristic did both Asian and European philosophies possess in the pre-modern world?
They were rooted in religion
112. What common characteristics exists in the decline of both the Roman and Abbasid empires?
There was a growing reliance on mercenary armies
113. What commonality exists in the formation of the Muscovite Russians and the Ottoman Turks?
The decline of the Ottoman Empire
114. Why is population increase omnipresent in modern agricultural societies?
Children are seen as an important source of labor
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They developed out of other faiths
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Developed monastic orders
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Venerated high spiritual merit
116. What European nation experienced rapid economic growth during WWII?
The Soviet Union
117. What similarities exist between the Aztec and Incan civilizations?
Both had innovative agricultural techniques
118. When did most African colonies become independent?
After WWII
119. Who said this? “I contend we are the first race of the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human
race. I contend that every acre added to our territory means the birth of more of us who otherwise would not be brought into
existence.”
A) A French revolutionary in 1792
B) A Russian Marxist in 1917
C) A British imperialist in the 1880s
D) A Chinese communist in 1949
E) An American patriot in 1776
120. What common goal was shared by early 20th-century revolutionaries in China and Mexico?
Land reform
121. What connection exists between Machiavelli and Arthasastra?
Both defined the relationship between the ruler and the ruled (Arthasastra was an early Indian political philosopher)
122. Which of the following American crops toured the world the fastest during the Columbian Exchange?
Corn
potato
peanut
tomato
123. What is extraterritoriality?
Foreign exemption from local laws
124. Who was the earliest Egyptian ruler, credited with uniting the Upper and Lower kingdoms?
Menes
125. What story, written 4000 years ago, describes a king’s quest to achieve immortality
The Epic of Gilgamesh
126. Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Sui, Tang, Song
Sui, Tang, Song
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
PRC
127. What East Asian kingdom never became a part of the Mongol Empire?
Japan
128. What crop was the staple of the poor in 17th-19th century Europe?
potato
129. What common trait was shared by Renaissance Italy and the Abbasid Empire?
Both combined political fragmentation with cultural creativity
130. What were the most important contributions of Napoleon?
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Napoleonic Code
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Spreading nationalism
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Confederation of the Rhine
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Concordat of 1801
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Created model school system
131. What two religions travelled to Indonesia (Spice Islands) via trade?
Hinduism and Islam
132. Who denounced Josef Stalin as a “cult of personality”
Nikita Khrushchev
133. What was the Japanese equivalent of the French medieval knight?
The Samurai
134. Where was the greatest manufacturing region in the world between 1000-1450
China
135. How did the European Industrial Revolution impact the rest of the world?
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136. In what region of the world do the greatest number of
Muslims live
--South and Southeast Asia
Christians live
--Western Hemisphere and Europe
Hindus live
--South Asia
137. How are Mao and Gandhi similar?
Both sought the support of the peasants
138. What is the major difference between Viking and Arab expansion?
Vikings attacked rural communities while Arabs attacked urban communities
139. What additional country was created out of Indian independence in 1948?
Pakistan
140. Which of the following is out of place in time?
Confucius Laozi
Mohammad Siddhartha Gautama Socrates
141. What was the last country in the New World to abolish slavery?
Brazil
142. What belief is described by the following characteristics:
Loyalty to ruler
Filial obedience to father
Respect for elders
Chastity for wives
Confucianism
143. What was the papal decree that separated the Portuguese possessions from the Spanish possessions in the New World?
The Treaty of Tordesillas
144. What did the Han and Roman empires have in common?
Centralized governments
145. Where was the early Soviet Union’s NEP more successful?
agriculture
146. Where was Stalin’s Five Year plans more successful?
industrialization
147. Who is associated with the invention of moveable type?
Gutenburg
148. What were the effects of the Russo-Japanese War?
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Growing confidence in Japan
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Russia lost Sakhalin and Kurile islands and Port Arthur
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Humiliation for Russia and creation of Duma
149. Who backed the Egyptian takeover of the Suez Canal in the mid-1950s, forcing France and Britain to back down?
Soviet Union (U.S. remained mum)
150. How did goods typically travel in the Atlantic triangular trade?
European Guns to Africa, slaves to New World, raw products to Europe
151. What similarity existsbetween Cheng He and Vasco da Gama?
Both made it to east Africa
152. Who were the Gang of Four?
Survivors of Mao’s regime, led by his wife
153. What Constantinople (Istanbul) cathedral was converted to a mosque?
Hagia Sophia
154. What did quinine and steam enable?
The Scramble for Africa
155. Who said “L’etat cest Moi?”
Louis XIV (“I am the state”)
156. What connection exists between nirvana and Moksha?
Buddhist (nirvana) and Hindu beliefs in the liberation from suffering
157. I will name the religious edifice, you identify the religion:
Hagia Sophia
--Christian
Angkor Wat
--Hindu
Borubador
--Buddhist
Kaaba
--Muslim
158. I will name the religious document, you tell me the religion:
Upanishads
--Hinduism
Ramayana
--Hinduism
Avesta
--Zoroastrianism
Bhagavad Gita
--Hinduism
City of God
--Christian
Quran
--Islam
Talmud
--Judaism
159. I will tell you the book, you tell me the author:
The Influence of Sea Power On History
--Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Little Red Book
--Mao Zedong
Tao Te Ching (The Way)
--Lao Tzu
Rubaiyat
--Omar Khayyam
Tale of the Genji
--Lady Mraski
160. Tell me the combatants at each of the following battles:
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Lepanto
Ottoman and Italian
Tsushima
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Omdurman
British and Sudanese
Constantinople
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Manzikert
Saljuqs and Byzantine
What were Latin American strong men in government called?
caudillo
What commonality do Sierra Leone and Liberia share?
They both were havens for freed slaves from America (Liberia) and Britain
What do Hinduism and Buddhism share?
A belief in karma
What do members of the Indian National Congress, the Carbonari, and the Young Turks share?
A nationalistic spirit
Describe the Bantu migrations
A hooked route from central west Africa south over and up the east coast
Identify the Cold War Yugoslavian leader who uniquely enjoyed semi-independence from Soviet domination.
Marshall Tito
What was the “Golden Horde?”
The Mongol Empire in Russia
What common quality do Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo share?
They both travelled extensively in Asia at about the same time
What common quality is shared by Ibraham and Ikhnaten?
They both introduced monotheism to their cultures
What Cuban revolutionary travelled to other Latin American countries, hoping to spread revolutionary and communist ideals?
Che Guevara
What was the eastern European equivalent of NATO during the Cold War?
The Warsaw Pact
What did the Domino Theory and Containment possess as common goals?
Stopping the spread of communism
What common characteristic is shared by Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh?
They are both worshipped as anti-imperialists in Asia
What did Mongo Park and Nigel Bruce “discover?”
Park: the source of the Niger River
Bruce the source of the Blue Nile
What was the Price Revolution?
Inflation in Europe following the influx of precious metals from the New World resulting in surplus coinage enabling investment and
mercantilist practices
What moved in the Columbian Exchange?
Food: potatoes, maize, goats, chickens, pigs, wheat, bananas, tomatoes
Disease: smallpox, influenza, measles, syphilis
People: entrepreneurs, missionaries, slaves, ne’r do wells, indigenous populations
What were the trading post empires?
“Gas stations” buil;t by Europeans to establish commercial relations, i.e. Gao, Capetown, Calicut
What comparisons can be made between feudalism in Japan and Europe?
Chivalry and Bushido (Code of Ethics)
Knights and Samurai
Lord and daimyo
King and emperor (frequently figureheads)
How did the Quran help and hurt women?
Helped: improved security, denied women as mere property
Hurt: Emphasized male dominance, male inheritance, descent through males, up to 4 wives, veiling
What were the two most pervasive diseases in history?
Small pox and measles
I will give you the clue, you identify the faith:
The world’s oldest religion
Spoke to the needs of the average people
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Identified in the Bhagavad Gita
Salvation achieved through obeying the laws of the caste
Hinduism
What was the oldest civilization in Mesoamerica?
Olmecs
What is it?
Believes events on earth and in heaven are directly connected
Power to rule comes from heavenly powers
Ruler is linked between heaven and earth
Can be compared to the European concept of divine right
First used by the Zhou Dynasty
The Mandate of Heaven
What incident saw the French back away from the British in the Scramble for Africa?
The Fashoda Incident
What distinguishes Paleolithic from Neolithic?
Domestication of animals
Cultivastion of crops
Settled communities
What was Potosi?
Silver mine in western South America
What inventions encouraged European exploration during the Voyages of Discovery?
The Lateen sails, the astrolabe, caravels, cartographic improvements, and inventions from the Chinese (magnetic compass and
sternpost rudder)
What is the connection between the Monroe Doctrine and the Brezhnev Doctrine?
The Monroe Doctrine told the rest of the world to stay out of America’s backyard and the Brezhnev Doctrine told the rest of the
world to stay out of the Soviet Union’s backyard
Be aware that any answer dealing with manufacturing and industrialization prior to 1800 is probably wrong
When there is a question involving art, pick the answer most familiar to you
What was the first European country to establish a colony in Asia?
Portugal
What river was used by the Ottoman Empire to invade Europe?
Danube
I will identify the century, you tell me the most powerful country in Europe at the time:
1500
--Ottoman
1600
--Spain
1700
--France
1800
--France
1900
--England
Which would a mercantilist most prefer to import:
Finished goods or raw goods
What was the “Third Rome” after Constantinople?
Moscow
What do the latifundia and the yangban have in common?
They represent the Roman and Chinese landed gentry
What do the following ideas represent?
Economic determinism
Dialectical materialism
Labor theory of value
Ultimate classless revolution
Marxism
What was the first industry to be developed by the Industrial Revolution?
textiles
How does Mao Tzu’s relationship with Mencius compare to John Locke’s relationship with Thomas Hobbes?
Each pair discussed the relationship between the government and the people
Place the following Muslim dynasties in the correct chronological order
Abbasid (2)
Ottoman (3)
Ummayyad
(1)
202. Who came from Middle Asia and conquered early northern India
Indo-Aryans
203. What was the first novel ever written?
Tale of the Genji by Lady Murasaki
204. Hammurabi’s Code came from what ancient civilization?
Babylon
205. What connection exists between Xhu Xi (12th century China) and Leonardo da Vinci (15th century Italy)?
Both taught the value of the individual (da Vinci was the embodiment of the Renaissance Man and Zhu was the founder of NeoConfucianism)
206. What is presentism?
207. What is the diffusion theory?
The spread of ideas
208. Identify the ancient river valley civilizations in India
Harappo and Mohenjo-Daro
209. Identify 5 ancient river valley civilizations
Indus
Tigres-Euphrates
Nile
Ganges
Yangtze
210. Identify the British diplomat forced to kowtow before the Chinese emperor :
Lord McCartney
211. What were the early 19th-century reforms in the Ottoman Empire called?
Tanzimat
212. What is the relationship between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution?
In China, the GLF was an attempt to industrialize the country in the 1950s through cottage industry development and the CR was an
attempt to purge Communist China of western influence
213. Who wrote the Wealth of Nations?
Adam Smith
214. Who Wrote “Essays on Population”
Thomas Malthus
215. Who wrote “The Iron Law of Wages”
David Ricardo
216. In the late 1920s, what was the aim of the Kellogg-Briand pact?
An attempt to outlaw war
217. Who said the Treaty of Versailles was too easy and who said it was too hard?
Victors said too easy and defeated said too hard
218. What common mistake was made by both Napoleon and Hitler?
Russia
219. What three reason account for population growth in non-industrialized countries?
Decrease in infant mortality rate
Children seen as source of labor
Decline in death rate
220. What similarities existed between colonies in Brazil and colonies in Georgia?
Slavery
Plantation System
Land Intensive
221. What artistic designs represent different religious faiths
Geometric designs represent Islam
Wheel represents Hinduism and Buddhism
222. What connection exists between the Ming Survivalists and the Kuomintang?
Both escaped to Formosa (Taiwan)
223. What common trait is shared by Kung Fu-tzu, Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus?
Neither wrote anything down
224. What connection exists between Ashoka and his relationship with Buddhism and Constantine and his relationship to Christianity
Both used religion to unite their people
225. Usually a “trigger” phrase gives away the meaning of a quote
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Nationalism
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Arms Build-up
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Neutral countries in WW
Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland
Neutral countries in WWII
Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Ireland, Portugal
What caused the death of most combatants in the Crimean War?
malaria
Which European countries had revolutions in 1789, 1848, and 1871?
France
Family size decreases as industrialization occurs
Typically, the lower class is interested in economic issues and the middle class is interested in ideas and values
What connection exists between the relationship between Confucius and Mencius and the relationship between Plato and Aristotle?
Master and Disciple
What is the Out of Africa thesis?
The idea we are all descended from groups of primates who emigrated out of Africa millions of years ago
What is the relationship between opium and slaves?
One represents European trade with the Old World and the other represents European trade with the New World
Identify two rulers who remained non-aligned during the Cold War:
Sukarno (Indonesia) Nehru (India)
Nasser (Egypt)
Identify the Eastern and western termini of the Silk Road:
Tsian and Baghdad (or Damascus, or Constantinople, or Persepolis)
What is the connection between the battles of Lepanto and the Spanish Armada?
Both were more significant psychological losses than strategic losses by forces expected to win
Who is the “expected one?”
The Mahdi
What was the Mughal Dynasty?
Period of Muslim rule in India
Whose theories were largely disproved by Albert Einstein?
Isaac Newton
Who was the Father of . . .
Modern Turkey
--Kemal Ataturk
Independent Latin America
--Simon Bolivar
Modern China
--Sun Yat-sen
The Incan “written language” is called
Quipo
What connection exists between Aristotle’s “Golden Mean” and China’s “Middle Way?”
They both emphasize avoidance of extremes
What is the relationship between The Iliad and the Mahabbarata?
Both are epic tales of wars fought between gods and men, stories of knightly chivalry
I’ll name the revolutionary, you name the country:
L’Ouverture
--Haiti
Simon Bolivar
--South America
Mahatma Gandhi
--India
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
--Pakistan
Jomo Kenyatta
--Kenya
Kwame Nkrumah
--Ghana
Julius Nyerere
--Tanzania