,OpenStax World History, Volume 2, from 1400 Instructor Answer Guide
OpenStax World History: Volume 2, from 1400 Instructor Answer Guide
Chapter 1: Understanding the Past.................................................................................................4
Review Questions........................................................................................................................4
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................5
Application and Reflection Questions.........................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Exchange in East Asia and the Indian Ocean.................................................................7
Review Questions........................................................................................................................7
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................9
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................10
Chapter 3: Early Modern Africa and the Wider World..................................................................11
Review Questions......................................................................................................................11
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................13
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................14
Chapter 4: The Islamic World........................................................................................................16
Review Questions......................................................................................................................16
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................18
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................19
Chapter 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World..............................................................................21
Review Questions......................................................................................................................21
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................24
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................26
Chapter 6: Colonization and Economic Expansion........................................................................27
Review Questions......................................................................................................................27
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................29
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................30
Chapter 7: Revolutions in Europe and North America..................................................................32
Review Questions......................................................................................................................32
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................35
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................36
Chapter 8: Revolutions in Latin America.......................................................................................38
Review Questions......................................................................................................................38
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Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................40
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................42
Chapter 9: Expansion in the Industrial Age...................................................................................43
Review Questions......................................................................................................................43
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................45
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................47
Chapter 10: Life and Labor in the Industrial World.......................................................................48
Review Questions......................................................................................................................48
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................52
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................54
Chapter 11: The War to End All Wars............................................................................................56
Review Questions......................................................................................................................56
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................59
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................61
Chapter 12: The Interwar Period...................................................................................................63
Review Questions......................................................................................................................63
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................66
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................69
Chapter 13: The Causes and Consequences of World War II........................................................71
Review Questions......................................................................................................................71
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................74
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................75
Chapter 14: Cold War Conflicts......................................................................................................77
Review Questions......................................................................................................................77
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................80
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................81
Chapter 15: The Contemporary World and Ongoing Challenges..................................................83
Review Questions......................................................................................................................83
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................85
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................87
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Chapter 1: Understanding the Past
Review Questions
1. What is an example of a primary source?
a. a diary entry by a person who lived in the period under discussion
b. a modern biography of a person in the period under discussion
c. an account of a nineteenth-century battle in a twenty-first century textbook
d. an article in an academic journal
[Answer: A]
2. Whom do the Chinese view as the father of history?
a. Homer
b. Santayana
c. Herodotus
d. Sima Qian
[Answer: D]
3. What interpretation of history assumes that history can be viewed primarily through the
lives and choices of leaders?
a. great man theory
b. progressive interpretation
c. gender interpretation
d. Marxist interpretation
[Answer: A]
4. The belief that history is moved primarily by class struggle is the ______ of history.
a. social interpretation theory
b. revisionist view
c. progressive interpretation
d. Marxist interpretation
[Answer: D]
5. What is the most immediate motivator of a historical event?
a. tertiary cause
b. primary cause
c. action of a great man
d. social construct
[Answer: B]
6. Our perspectives are deeply rooted in _______, which we learn from our upbringing and
environment.
a. education
b. social constructs
c. historical empathy
d. causation
[Answer: B]
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OpenStax World History: Volume 2, from 1400 Instructor Answer Guide
Chapter 1: Understanding the Past.................................................................................................4
Review Questions........................................................................................................................4
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................5
Application and Reflection Questions.........................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Exchange in East Asia and the Indian Ocean.................................................................7
Review Questions........................................................................................................................7
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................9
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................10
Chapter 3: Early Modern Africa and the Wider World..................................................................11
Review Questions......................................................................................................................11
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................13
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................14
Chapter 4: The Islamic World........................................................................................................16
Review Questions......................................................................................................................16
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................18
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................19
Chapter 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World..............................................................................21
Review Questions......................................................................................................................21
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................24
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................26
Chapter 6: Colonization and Economic Expansion........................................................................27
Review Questions......................................................................................................................27
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................29
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................30
Chapter 7: Revolutions in Europe and North America..................................................................32
Review Questions......................................................................................................................32
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................35
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................36
Chapter 8: Revolutions in Latin America.......................................................................................38
Review Questions......................................................................................................................38
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Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................40
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................42
Chapter 9: Expansion in the Industrial Age...................................................................................43
Review Questions......................................................................................................................43
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................45
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................47
Chapter 10: Life and Labor in the Industrial World.......................................................................48
Review Questions......................................................................................................................48
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................52
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................54
Chapter 11: The War to End All Wars............................................................................................56
Review Questions......................................................................................................................56
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................59
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................61
Chapter 12: The Interwar Period...................................................................................................63
Review Questions......................................................................................................................63
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................66
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................69
Chapter 13: The Causes and Consequences of World War II........................................................71
Review Questions......................................................................................................................71
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................74
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................75
Chapter 14: Cold War Conflicts......................................................................................................77
Review Questions......................................................................................................................77
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................80
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................81
Chapter 15: The Contemporary World and Ongoing Challenges..................................................83
Review Questions......................................................................................................................83
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................85
Application and Reflection Questions.......................................................................................87
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, OpenStax World History, Volume 2, from 1400 Instructor Answer Guide
Chapter 1: Understanding the Past
Review Questions
1. What is an example of a primary source?
a. a diary entry by a person who lived in the period under discussion
b. a modern biography of a person in the period under discussion
c. an account of a nineteenth-century battle in a twenty-first century textbook
d. an article in an academic journal
[Answer: A]
2. Whom do the Chinese view as the father of history?
a. Homer
b. Santayana
c. Herodotus
d. Sima Qian
[Answer: D]
3. What interpretation of history assumes that history can be viewed primarily through the
lives and choices of leaders?
a. great man theory
b. progressive interpretation
c. gender interpretation
d. Marxist interpretation
[Answer: A]
4. The belief that history is moved primarily by class struggle is the ______ of history.
a. social interpretation theory
b. revisionist view
c. progressive interpretation
d. Marxist interpretation
[Answer: D]
5. What is the most immediate motivator of a historical event?
a. tertiary cause
b. primary cause
c. action of a great man
d. social construct
[Answer: B]
6. Our perspectives are deeply rooted in _______, which we learn from our upbringing and
environment.
a. education
b. social constructs
c. historical empathy
d. causation
[Answer: B]
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