,OpenStax World History, Volume 2, from 1400 Student Answer Guide
OpenStax World History: Volume
2, from 1400 Student Answer
Guide
Chapter 1: Understanding the Past.................................................................................................3
Review Questions........................................................................................................................3
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................4
Chapter 2: Exchange in East Asia and the Indian Ocean.................................................................5
Review Questions........................................................................................................................5
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................6
Chapter 3: Early Modern Africa and the Wider World....................................................................7
Review Questions........................................................................................................................7
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................8
Chapter 4: The Islamic World..........................................................................................................9
Review Questions........................................................................................................................9
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................10
Chapter 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World..............................................................................12
Review Questions......................................................................................................................12
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................13
Chapter 6: Colonization and Economic Expansion........................................................................15
Review Questions......................................................................................................................15
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................16
Chapter 7: Revolutions in Europe and North America..................................................................17
Review Questions......................................................................................................................17
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................18
Chapter 8: Revolutions in Latin America.......................................................................................20
Review Questions......................................................................................................................20
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................21
Chapter 9: Expansion in the Industrial Age...................................................................................23
Review Questions......................................................................................................................23
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Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................24
Chapter 10: Life and Labor in the Industrial World.......................................................................26
Review Questions......................................................................................................................26
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................28
Chapter 11: The War to End All Wars............................................................................................30
Review Questions......................................................................................................................30
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................31
Chapter 12: The Interwar Period...................................................................................................33
Review Questions......................................................................................................................33
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................34
Chapter 13: The Causes and Consequences of World War II........................................................38
Review Questions......................................................................................................................38
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................39
Chapter 14: Cold War Conflicts......................................................................................................41
Review Questions......................................................................................................................41
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................42
Chapter 15: The Contemporary World and Ongoing Challenges..................................................44
Review Questions......................................................................................................................44
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................45
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]
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]
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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]
Check Your Understanding Questions
1. What does it mean to be a global citizen?
[Answer: A global citizen sees themselves as a member of, and responsible to, a world
community rather than a single nation.]
3. Define causation as it is used in the study of history.
[Answer: Causation is the “why” behind events, that is, the immediate contributing factors and
long-term reasons why an event occurred. Causation helps historians make sense of the past.]
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OpenStax World History: Volume
2, from 1400 Student Answer
Guide
Chapter 1: Understanding the Past.................................................................................................3
Review Questions........................................................................................................................3
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................4
Chapter 2: Exchange in East Asia and the Indian Ocean.................................................................5
Review Questions........................................................................................................................5
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................6
Chapter 3: Early Modern Africa and the Wider World....................................................................7
Review Questions........................................................................................................................7
Check Your Understanding Questions.........................................................................................8
Chapter 4: The Islamic World..........................................................................................................9
Review Questions........................................................................................................................9
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................10
Chapter 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World..............................................................................12
Review Questions......................................................................................................................12
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................13
Chapter 6: Colonization and Economic Expansion........................................................................15
Review Questions......................................................................................................................15
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................16
Chapter 7: Revolutions in Europe and North America..................................................................17
Review Questions......................................................................................................................17
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................18
Chapter 8: Revolutions in Latin America.......................................................................................20
Review Questions......................................................................................................................20
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................21
Chapter 9: Expansion in the Industrial Age...................................................................................23
Review Questions......................................................................................................................23
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Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................24
Chapter 10: Life and Labor in the Industrial World.......................................................................26
Review Questions......................................................................................................................26
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................28
Chapter 11: The War to End All Wars............................................................................................30
Review Questions......................................................................................................................30
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................31
Chapter 12: The Interwar Period...................................................................................................33
Review Questions......................................................................................................................33
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................34
Chapter 13: The Causes and Consequences of World War II........................................................38
Review Questions......................................................................................................................38
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................39
Chapter 14: Cold War Conflicts......................................................................................................41
Review Questions......................................................................................................................41
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................42
Chapter 15: The Contemporary World and Ongoing Challenges..................................................44
Review Questions......................................................................................................................44
Check Your Understanding Questions.......................................................................................45
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]
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]
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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]
Check Your Understanding Questions
1. What does it mean to be a global citizen?
[Answer: A global citizen sees themselves as a member of, and responsible to, a world
community rather than a single nation.]
3. Define causation as it is used in the study of history.
[Answer: Causation is the “why” behind events, that is, the immediate contributing factors and
long-term reasons why an event occurred. Causation helps historians make sense of the past.]
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