History - Topical History; Pace 5 Quiz

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Discuss some of the profound differences between the paleolithic and neolithic ages. What allowed for these differences? How did these differences affect development after the neolithic age?

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How did the democratic regimes of Britain, France, and the United States avoid totalitarian political takeovers while the Weimar Republic was unable to do so?

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The most outrageous act an Egyptian could perpetrate was

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The Baroque painting style was especially evident in the works of

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Why did Britain need to import more food in the late nineteenth century?

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Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the development of agriculture in the Americas?

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Which of the following best summarizes Rome's patron-client system?

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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed between Spain and Portugal

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In their attempt to follow tradition, the Tokugawa ruled through a coalition of daimyo and a council of elders called the

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The mastery of agriculture led to a population explosion. From a sparse population of around four million in 10,000 B.C.E., the global figure rose by 500 B.C.E. to around

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah called for the creation of

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Which of the following is an important achievement of the Maya?

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The Indian term dharma referred to laws setting behavioral standards for which groups in Indian society?

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How successful have the quasi-Socialist programs been in India during Nehru's era and with his successors? What tangible results have been seen, versus what complications or failures?

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Lucy, Selam, and Ardi are all examples of what?

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Which of the following statements is true?

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Which of the following best summarizes the basic principle of scholastic theology?

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South America

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In 1954, Che Guevara witnessed the U.S. supported overthrow of the democratically elected government of

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What evidence are there of the survival of Confucian values in the nations of East Asia? What Confucian values seem to have been lost? Why?

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Which of the following best describes the relationship between population growth and early human migration?

22

After Canada became a dominion, what aspects of her government did Britain continue to control?

23

The last Nahua group to migrate to central Mexico called themselves

24

In the 1934 and 1936 elections, blacks abandoned their traditional allegiance to the Republican Party in favor of the Democrats and the New Deal.

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Which area was taken by France as a result of the French navy's defeat of the Qing southern fleet?

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Compare and contrast the political and religious structures of the Indianized kingdoms in southeast Asia.

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Which of the following may have been an advantage bipedal hominins had over their non-bipedal counterparts?

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Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers' Alliance and the Populists?

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What role did technological innovations and trade play in the rise of the Egyptians? What innovations led to turning points in the history of Egypt? How widely did the Egyptians trade?

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The fundamental weakness of colonialism was that it a. required a substantial economic investment in the infrastructure by the colonizer

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Which work is the most important work of Baroque architecture?

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What did Fidel Castro intend to accomplish by his Cuban revolution? Do you believe Castro delivered significant social and economic benefits on whose behalf he fought his revolution? Why or why not was Castro successful in his social and economic ambitions?

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set quotas to restrict immigration; limited to 2% and outlawed Japanese immigrants

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The purpose of the rihla is to

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Huitzilopochtli was the tribal god of the _____.

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The majority of soldiers in the Crimean War died of

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By the time he died, at the age of thirty-two, Alexander had conquered all except

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The Tang rulers organized China into a powerful and productive society during their three-hundred-year rule.

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The leader of the national socialism movement in Germany was

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Compare the recent political history of Mexico and Argentina. What factors might account for the differences?

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Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration unleashed a flood of poignant letters to the federal government describing the current labor force in such words as "terrible and inhuman condition," "slaves of the depression," and "wage slavery."