QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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1. The map 'The World Circa 1900' reflects what?
Answer:
the growth of Western empires throughout Africa and Asia
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2. Which of the following likely encouraged world patterns of development as shown on the map 'The
World Circa 1900'?
Answer:
New racial ideologies such as social Darwinism
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3. Which of the following was a consequence of the world patterns of development as shown on the map
'The World Circa 1900'?
Answer:
Increased nationalism among imperial subjects resulted in challenges to imperial governments
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4. The patterns evident in Africa and Asia in the map are most similar to which of the following previous
trends
Answer:
Spanish activity in Central and South America in the sixteenth century
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5. A historian would most likely use the image as support for which of the following assertions?
Answer:
Contact with Western cultures enabled Japan to benefit from new methods of industrial production.
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6. The subject of the illustration best supports which of the following changes in world history?
Answer:
New patterns of global trade and the growth of global capitalism
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7. Based on your knowledge of world history, which of the following factors contributed most to the
subject of the illustration?
Answer:
Major developments in transportation technology
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8. The impact of the railroad in the nineteenth century is most similar to which of the following?
, Answer:
The influence of European technological developments during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in
cartography and navigation on the global economy
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9. Based on Walvin's argument in the first two sentences, British ideas regarding slavery were most clearly
influenced by which of the following?
Answer:
Enlightenment ideas that challenged existing social relations
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10. Walvin's argument concerning "growing economic doubts" is best understood in the context of which
of the following?
Answer:
Adam Smith's emphasis on capitalism
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11. The spread of the ideas regarding slavery, as discussed in the passage, was likely a result of which of
the following?
Answer:
The global spread of European political and social thought
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12. Which of the following revolutions most closely advocates the ideas reflected in the passage?
Answer:
Haitian
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13. The subject of the reading represents which of the following continuities in world history?
Answer:
Coerced labor systems have been a recognized part of most economic systems until the nineteenth century
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14. A historian would most likely use the passage as support for which of the following arguments?
Answer:
Ideologies in which certain groups of people were considered inferior
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15. Laws and decrees such as those in the passage were used in nations and empires such as the Ottoman
Empire for which of the following reasons?
Answer:
To unite diverse populations
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16. Based on the passage and your knowledge of world history, it can be inferred that