Question 1

Sayyid Qutb argued the elites of the new Arab states pursued policies that frayed local and family bonds,deepening economic divides while abandoning the government's responsibility for charity and stability.

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Sayyid Qutb did argue that the elites of the new Arab states pursued policies that frayed local and family bonds, deepening economic divides while abandoning the government's responsibility for charity and stability.

Question 2

What were the effects of independence from colonialism in Africa?

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Question 3

Can historians predict the future by studying the past?

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Question 4

What is globalization?

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Question 5

In what ways were the September 11,2001,attacks on the United States the product of a new brand of terror born from globalization?

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Question 6

The term checkerboard of poverty and affluence refers to the presence of wealthy countries among poverty-stricken ones.

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Question 7

How has globalization changed health and medicine in the twenty-first century?

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Question 8

How has globalization promoted human rights?

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Question 9

The United States was the first nation to ratify the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, is not a treaty and thus not subject to ratification by nations. Instead, it was adopted by a vote, with the United States being one of the member states that voted in favor.

Question 10

How did Cold War politics and divisions affect the Middle East?

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Question 11

In what ways did the Internet share the features of earlier print revolutions?

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Question 12

In late 2015,195 nations,including the United States,came to a landmark agreement in Paris that committed nearly every country to limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

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Question 13

Compare and contrast the threats posed to the West by state actors like North Korea,Iraq,and Iran,and non-state actors like al Qaeda.

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Question 14

In what ways did oil give power to the former colonies of the West?

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Question 15

By the end of the twentieth century,East Asia had become a center of industrial and manufacturing production.

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This statement is true. By the end of the twentieth century, countries such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and later China, became major players in global manufacturing and industrial production.

Quiz 20: A World Without Walls: Globalization and the West