World History B Semester Exam
1. silk, jade, lacquerware, and porcelain
2. The Reconquista influenced Iberian colonization because it shaped religious attitudes that nonbelievers must be converted or fought.
3. Infrastructure was not a priority under British rule, so building infrastructure has been a major initiative in modern Nigeria.
4. The British extracted raw materials for their industries, leaving India unable to grow their own industries.
5. The British Empire bought tea from China. In exchange, it sold China opium and cotton the empire had taken from India. This trade benefited the British Empire, not its colonies. Its colonies, their resources, and the people living within them were exploited for the gain of the British Empire.
6. Substituting dollars represented utilizing economic policy in exchange for the use of military threat, whereas “big stick” diplomacy relies on the threat of military force.
7. European empires had built up technological power due to the Industrial Revolution. This meant that they had more powerful and violent weapons, which overpowered much African armed resistance.
8. Galileo Galilei
9. England became a constitutional monarchy.
10. enslaved African men
11. Sweden had more fertile land because of inland rivers.
12. They showed the colonists that the British were oppressive, leading to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
13. These treaties were often not ratified by the U.S. Senate.
14. The Americas were more sparsely populated than Europe at the time and Indigenous people had lived there for generations. European colonizers stole large amounts of this land and organized massive plantations. In order to keep these running, they needed a lot of human labor. In order to maximize profits, European colonizers did not want to pay for this labor. Because of this, they implemented various systems of forced labor.
15. the First Amendment
16. New Spain
17. The U.S. Bill of Rights, while revolutionary when it was written, increasingly seems too limited in comparison to newer rights documents.
18. Slavery differentiated the political, social, and economic factors that led to each revolution.
19. The British Agricultural Revolution led to a surplus of food that allowed a growing population instead of subsistence farming.
20. hopes for a better life
21. Factory owners got very rich while workers remained poor.
22. Former battlefields of World War I remain dangerous due to the destruction of the environment.
23. The Russian people were dissatisfied with the war, which led to peace negotiations.
24. The damage and demand for reparations were both so large that it took decades to recover.
25. a decline in the shipping industry and a reliance on German reparations
26. Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini all forcibly assumed state control of privately owned land.
27. through a fusion of religious and political ritual
28. The Versailles agreement and the mandate system led to the growth of nationalism after World War I.
29. through the secret police
30. to create a just society in which all had access to property
31. It created the Axis powers alliance in 1940.
32. production of the film Triumph of the Will
33. Yugoslavia was a communist nation but remained independent of the Soviet Union’s influence.
34. the United States and the Soviet Union
35. Surveillance of American citizens got more intense.
36. Global e-commerce brings nearly $26.7 trillion to the world economy.
37. China implemented economic reforms to participate in global trade.
38. It defined and condemned genocide.
39. The UDHR provides an ideal goal for all human societies to work toward.
40. Native species of plants and animals are under threat.
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