Question 1

Which of the following was the basic unit of religious categorization in the Ottoman Empire?&#10;A)The caste&#10;B)The parish&#10;C)The millet&#10;D)The umma

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The millet was the basic unit of religious categorization in the Ottoman Empire.
Key Takeaway: Millet is an Ottoman Turkish term for a confessional community in the Ottoman Empire. In the 19th century the term started to refer to legally protected religious minority groups, other than the ruling Sunni. According to the millet concept, people were bound to their groups by their religious affiliations, rather than their ethnic origins. The head of a millet was most often a religious official, such as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, and he reported directly to the Ottoman Sultan.

Question 2

By 600 CE, Christianity had spread to East Asia, Central Asia, East Africa, Western Europe, and the Middle East. True or False?&#10;A)True&#10;B)False

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False. By 600 C.E., Christianity had spread to Central Asia, East Africa, Western Europe, and the Middle East. Not East Asia.
Key Takeaway: By 600, Christianity had influence in all of these areas except East Asia. Christianity did not arrive in East Asia until well after 600 C.E. Conquests, missionaries, and trade routes in the classical period all greatly aided the spread of Christianity into Western Europe, East Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Question 3

Other than the Europeans, which group ran a large slave trade in Africa?&#10;A)The Arabs&#10;B)The Turks&#10;C)The Persians&#10;D)The Syrians

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Other than the Europeans, the Arabs ran a large slave trade in Africa.
Key Takeaway: The Arab slave trade focused largely upon the Arab World, mainly Central or West Asia, North Africa, East Africa, and certain parts of Europe during their period in which those regions were dominated by Arab leaders. People traded were not limited to a certain color, ethnicity, or religion. Later, toward the 18th and 19th centuries, slaves increasingly came from East Africa, until slavery was officially abolished by the end of the 19th century.

Question 4

Who did Mao Zedong gather support from, clearly differentiating himself from orthodox Marxism?&#10;A)The military class&#10;B)Urban workers&#10;C)Rural peasants&#10;D)Unhappy merchants

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Mao Zedong gathered support from rural peasants, clearly differentiating himself from orthodox Marxists.
Key Takeaway: People who believed in orthodox Marxism believed that urban workers would eventually revolt against their capitalist masters and the following revolution would start in the cities. Although Mao Zedong believed many Marxist principles, he adapted the thought to the plight of peasants in the Chinese countryside. They were the vehicles by which he successfully overthrew the Nationalists in 1949.

Question 5

In the time period 600 to 1450, a self-sufficient economic system developed in Western Europe. What is this economic system known as?&#10;A)Manorialism&#10;B)Mercantilism&#10;C)Communism&#10;D)Capitalism

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The self-sufficient economic system developed in Western Europe in the time period 600 to 1450 is known as manorialism.
Key Takeaway: Manorialism was the organizing principle of the rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire. Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord. It was supported economically from the lord's own direct landholding and from the obligatory contributions of the peasant population in his jurisdiction. These obligations were payable in several ways: in labor (note that the French term corvée is often used), in kind, or, in rare occasions, in actually currency.

Question 6

Of the following empires, which existed more than 500 years after the others?&#10;A)Song&#10;B)Han&#10;C)Roman&#10;D)Gupta

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The Song Empire existed more than 500 years after the Han, Roman, and Gupta Empires.
Key Takeaway: The Song Empire ruled China between 960 and 1279. It was the first government in world history to issue paper money and it was the first Chinese government to create a permanent navy. It also saw the first known use of gunpowder. During the reign of the Song Empire, the population of China doubled in size through expanded rice cultivation in central and southern China, the use of early-ripening rice from southeast and southern Asia, and the production of abundant food surpluses.

Question 7

The Chinese had a virtual monopoly on which of the following for many, many years?&#10;A)Rice&#10;B)Porcelain&#10;C)Bamboo&#10;D)Silk

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For many years, the Chinese enjoyed a virtual monopoly on silk.
Key Takeaway: Silk has always been one of China's most profitable commodities. The production of silk is highly complicated and for many centuries, the Chinese did not want to share their silk-making secrets with other nations. Because of this, China enjoyed a virtual monopoly on silk for a very long time.

Question 8

What scientific accomplishment is Nicolaus Copernicus best known for?&#10;A)Elaborating upon the existing theory of the elliptical orbits&#10;B)He invented the telescope.&#10;C)He created the world's first working microscope.&#10;D)He mathematically proved heliocentric theory.

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Nicolaus Copernicus is best known for proving heliocentric theory.
Key Takeaway: Copernicus set into motion an absolute intellectual earthquake when he proved that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun. His conclusions were all confirmed by Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo during the Scientific Revolution in the 1600s. However, because Catholic doctrine held that the sun revolved around the earth (God's home for humanity), it was highly dangerous to show support for heliocentric theory.

Question 9

During the 1980s and 1990s, the governments of Chile, Argentina, and Brazil politically moved toward which of the following?&#10;A)Representative democracy&#10;B)Communism&#10;C)Totalitarianism&#10;D)Socialism

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During the 1980s and 1990s, the governments of Chile, Argentina, and Brazil politically moved toward representative democracy.
Key Takeaway: Representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people, as opposed to either autocracy or direct democracy. The representatives form an independent ruling body charged with the responsibility of acting in the people's interest. During the 1980s and 1990s, the governments of Chile, Argentina, and Brazil have politically moved toward this model.

Question 10

Of the following Native American societies, which one built huge mounds for what scientists and anthropologists believe to be religious purposes?&#10;A)The Pueblos&#10;B)The Sioux&#10;C)The Mississippians&#10;D)The Hopi

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The Mississippians built large mounds for what scientists and anthropologists believe to be religious purposes.
Key Takeaway: The Mississippian culture was a Native American mound-building culture that thrived in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1500. A number of cultural traits are recognized as being characteristic of the Mississippians, one being the construction of large, truncated pyramid mounds or platform mounds that scholar believed were for religious purposes. Such mounds were usually square or rectangular. Structures such as homes, temples, burial buildings, or community buildings were usually constructed above such mounds.

Question 11

Which part of Africa was most greatly impacted during the 17^th- and 18^thth-century slave trade? A)Sub-Saharan Africa B)West Africa C)South Africa D)East Africa

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Question 12

How did Peter the Great change the geopolitical orientation of Russia?&#10;A)He colonized parts of Africa.&#10;B)He focused foreign affairs on Europe more than on Asia.&#10;C)He made Russia a democracy.&#10;D)He focused foreign affairs on Asia more than on Europe.

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Question 13

Which innovation is most associated with the ancient Hebrew civilization?&#10;A)The chariot&#10;B)Monotheism&#10;C)Hieroglyphics&#10;D)Paper money

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Question 14

What are Miguel de Hidalgo, Jos&#233; de San Martin, and Simon Bolivar examples of?&#10;A)Slave revolt leaders&#10;B)Spanish viceroys&#10;C)Conquistadors&#10;D)Revolutionary leaders

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Question 15

Which free-trade associations were created after World War II?&#10;A)The Warsaw Pact and APEC&#10;B)UNESCO and G-7&#10;C)NAFTA and the EU&#10;D)OPEC and NATO

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Question 16

Of the following rulers, who had the most religious tolerance?&#10;A)Philip II of Spain&#10;B)Henry VIII of England&#10;C)Louis XIV of France&#10;D)Akbar the Great of the Mughals

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Question 17

Which of the following religious ideas did early Christianity share with Mahayana Buddhism?&#10;A)Transubstantiation&#10;B)Reincarnation&#10;C)Personal salvation&#10;D)Sacrificial offerings

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Question 18

Of the following events, which one created the financial conditions that encouraged Christopher Columbus to sail to the New World in 1492?&#10;A)Spain adopted silver currency.&#10;B)Vasco DaGama sailed to India.&#10;C)Constantinople's trade routes fell to the Turks.&#10;D)Sugar plantations were created off of the African coast.

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Question 19

What was the largest environmental problem for ancient Mesopotamia?&#10;A)The soil was no longer as fertile&#10;B)Polluted water&#10;C)Rising sea levels&#10;D)Deforestation

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Question 20

What was the immediate result of the English Civil War?&#10;A)Oliver Cromwell practically ruled by dictatorship&#10;B)The Stuart monarchy ended.&#10;C)Catholics were tolerated religiously&#10;D)Protestants were openly persecuted.

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Question 21

NATO was primarily formed to stop the spread of Communism in Asia. True or False?

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Question 22

Which of the following was a result of the 1938 Munich Pact?&#10;A)Franco's rise to power in Spain&#10;B)Mussolini's rise to power in Italy&#10;C)German invasion of Czechoslovakia&#10;D)Treaty of nonaggression between Germany and the USSR

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Question 23

Who or what is the main focus of groups like neo-fascists and the neo-Nazis?&#10;A)Jews&#10;B)Evangelicals&#10;C)Immigrants, particularly Asian and African&#10;D)Women

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Question 24

Where were Jewish people most persecuted in the later half of the 19th century?&#10;A)Russia&#10;B)North America&#10;C)Northern Europe&#10;D)The Ottoman Empire

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Question 25

Which of the following conditions affected Cambodia in the 1970s and Rwanda in the 1990s?&#10;A)High rates of infection from AIDS&#10;B)Communist revolution&#10;C)Violence due to genocide&#10;D)Invasion by Europeans

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Question 26

Which city became the center for High Renaissance culture in the late 15^th and early 16^th centuries? A)Paris B)London C)Florence D)Rome

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Question 27

Starting in the late 1800s, which was the most effective nationalist group to oppose British rule in India?&#10;A)The Indian Liberation Army&#10;B)The Muslim League&#10;C)The Tamil Tigers&#10;D)The Indian National Congress

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Question 28

In the late 1800s, which Filipino guerilla leader fought the Spanish and then the United States?&#10;A)Edward Ramos&#10;B)Emilio Aguinaldo&#10;C)Ferdinand Marcos&#10;D)Mateo Buenviaje

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Question 29

Which institution administered Great Britain's colony in India during the first half of the 1800s?&#10;A)The Bank of England&#10;B)The British East India Company&#10;C)The British crown&#10;D)The British Army

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Question 30

Between the years of 1700 and 1900, England, Scotland, and Wales experienced huge population growth in their cities, many of which reached more than 100,000 inhabitants by 1900. What was the main reason for this?

A)Less famine, due to an increase in food supply
B)A massive decline in disease, coupled with advances in medical technology
C)The Industrial Revolution
D)A better and more even population distribution in the numbers of men and women

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Question 31

What is the most likely number of slaves taken from Africa to the Americas between the late 1400s and late 1800s?&#10;A)1 million&#10;B)3 million&#10;C)6 million&#10;D)12 million

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Question 32

Who was the first Russian leader who openly discussed Stalin's &#34;crimes&#34;?&#10;A)Stalin&#10;B)Yeltsin&#10;C)Lenin&#10;D)Khrushchev

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Question 33

Of the following nations, which was able to save nearly its entire Jewish population from being exterminated during the Holocaust?&#10;A)England&#10;B)Denmark&#10;C)Hungary&#10;D)Switzerland

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Question 34

Where did the Mongols remain a strong political force for more than 200 years following their conquest?&#10;A)China&#10;B)Russia&#10;C)Persia&#10;D)Egypt

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Question 35

True or False:Both Hitler and Mussolini personally hated Jews.&#10;A)True&#10;B)False

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Question 36

Which city was the site of the worst siege not only of the World War II era, but of the entire modern era?&#10;A)Nagasaki&#10;B)Leningrad&#10;C)Stalingrad&#10;D)Dresden

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Question 37

What type of government did Spain evolve into after the death of General Franco in 1975?&#10;A)Family dictatorship&#10;B)Socialist state&#10;C)Constitutional monarchy&#10;D)Parliamentary republic

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Question 38

Which of the following cities was the center of the East African slave trade?&#10;A)Nairobi&#10;B)Mombasa&#10;C)Zanzibar&#10;D)Sofala

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Question 39

Who was the first person to isolate radium?&#10;A)Thomas Edison&#10;B)James Clark Maxwell&#10;C)Alexander Graham Bell&#10;D)Marie Curie

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Question 40

Who succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the leader of the Nationalist Party in China?&#10;A)Chiang Kai-shek&#10;B)Mao Tse-tung&#10;C)Lu Hsun&#10;D)Zhou Enlai

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Question 41

Which royal family was affiliated with France in 1550?&#10;A)Bourbons&#10;B)Tudors&#10;C)Valois&#10;D)Hapsburgs

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Question 42

Which of the following had the best navigational technology available during the time period between 600-1450 CE?&#10;A)The Byzantine Empire&#10;B)Western Europe&#10;C)China&#10;D)Japan

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Question 43

What was the main reason for the high drop in population in both China and Egypt during the mid-1300s?&#10;A)Famine&#10;B)Disease&#10;C)Foreign invasion&#10;D)Religious war

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Question 44

During the 18^th Century, over what territories did France and England fight? A)South America and the Pacific B)Asia and the Caribbean C)North America and Asia D)Asia and Central America

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Question 45

Which of the following Central American nations became a battleground between the Soviet-supported Sandinista government and the U.S.-backed Contra rebels for most of the 1980s?&#10;A)El Salvador&#10;B)Honduras&#10;C)Nicaragua&#10;D)Guatemala

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Question 46

Which of the following families ruled France from 987 until the death of Charles IV in 1328?&#10;A)Franconian&#10;B)Carolingian&#10;C)Capuchin&#10;D)Capetian

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Question 47

Who got into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church because he promoted the theories of Copernicus?&#10;A)Newton&#10;B)Galileo&#10;C)Kepler&#10;D)Brahe

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Question 48

When did groups of minorities residing in Hungary get alarmed by the pro-Magyar movement?&#10;A)When the Magyars moved the capital of Hungary to Budapest&#10;B)When the leader of the movement made huge changes to traditional Hungarian cultural and dietary traditions&#10;C)When the Hungarian army invaded Bulgaria&#10;D)When Magyar became Hungary's official language

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Question 49

What was the main cause of the Price Revolution in the sixteenth century?&#10;A)Decreased population&#10;B)Increased population&#10;C)Decreased production&#10;D)Increased production

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Question 50

In general, what was Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika, instituted in the 1980s?&#10;A)A general loosening of Soviet political and economic structures&#10;B)A general tightening of Soviet political and economic structures&#10;C)A series of pogroms against Jews living in Russia&#10;D)An attempt to communize previously democratic areas of Europe

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Question 51

Why did the Zhou dynasty in China last so long?&#10;A)Ruthless imperialism&#10;B)The ability to keep poorer subjects untrained and uneducated&#10;C)Technological advancements&#10;D)Religious unity

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Question 52

Why was the Bastille considered to be a symbol of royal power?&#10;A)The king used it as his residence at Versailles&#10;B)The king used it as his residence in Paris&#10;C)The king used it to store religious and political relics and other valuables&#10;D)It housed political prisoners

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Question 53

Which of the following infects both humans and animals with a brutal sleeping sickness?&#10;A)Mosquitoes&#10;B)Roundworm&#10;C)Tsetse fly&#10;D)Mites

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Question 54

Which city was the site of the worst siege not only of the World War II era, but of the entire modern era?&#10;A)Berlin&#10;B)Leningrad&#10;C)Stalingrad&#10;D)Dresden

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Question 55

How did humanist scholars break with the standard medieval scholarly traditions?&#10;A)They insisted on reading original manuscripts, not commentary.&#10;B)They insisted on reading commentaries of manuscripts, not originals.&#10;C)They denied the existence of God and were early supporters of evolution.&#10;D)They rejected the authority of the papacy.

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Question 56

Where did the technology for the jet engine originate?&#10;A)China&#10;B)Russia, from the Cold War space race&#10;C)20 years after the first manned airplane flight&#10;D)Nazi Germany

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Question 57

Who established the Church of England, otherwise known as the Anglican Church?&#10;A)Pope Clement VII&#10;B)Holy Roman Emperor Charles V&#10;C)King Henry VIII&#10;D)Pope Paul III

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Question 58

Where can one find written evidence of the life of Mohammed?&#10;A)Qur'an&#10;B)Old Testament&#10;C)New Testament&#10;D)Hijra

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Question 59

Which great city was captured by the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Mehmed II in 1453?&#10;A)Constantinople&#10;B)Jerusalem&#10;C)Rome&#10;D)Athens

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Question 60

Whose famous Renaissance masterpieces include the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?&#10;A)Da Vinci&#10;B)Raphael Sanzio&#10;C)Michelangelo&#10;D)Monet

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Question 61

What was European interest in the American colonies from the period between 1450 and 1750 primarily due to?&#10;A)Traveling to America was very easy.&#10;B)Europeans wanted to establish military bases away from home.&#10;C)American colonies had large cash crops, which would potentially lead to a large profit for Europeans.&#10;D)Europeans wanted to escape the harsh climate of Europe.

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Question 62

Which of the following statements about voting in the Roman Republic is true?&#10;A)All adult citizens could vote and votes were equally-weighted.&#10;B)All adult citizens could vote; male votes counted for more.&#10;C)All adult male citizens could vote; votes of rich citizens counted for more.&#10;D)Voting was not allowed in the Roman Republic.

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Question 63

In 1915, a British passenger liner was torpedoed by a German U-Boat. What was the name of the ship?&#10;A)Titanic&#10;B)Lusitania&#10;C)Mauretania&#10;D)Olympic

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Question 64

How did the Neolithic Revolution influence traditional gender roles?&#10;A)Working outside of the home was highly valued&#10;B)Women did not work any longer.&#10;C)Men continued to hunt; women continued to gather.&#10;D)The economic roles of men and women were equal.

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Deck 4: History