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01/08/2008

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Older industrial countries such as Sweden suffer from a population burden of what?
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Decreasing Population, older people, not enough people to work
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The Monroe Doctrine Was an attempt by the United states to do what?
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Prevent More of europes power being used in Latin America
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Who were the real beneficiaries from the Industrial revolution?
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Middle class
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The African State That was Most dependent on the slave trade was what?
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Dahomey
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Bismarks plan to unite most german speaking people into a single German State was centered on using what?
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Blood and Iron
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Africans trading slaves wiht europeans most often preferred to receive what in return
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Guns and appliances in return possibly steel
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The chinese leader Sun-Yat Sen reorganized his defeated National Peoples party into what?
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Guomingdang
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The founder of the Mughal Empire Was who?
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Babur
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The New french constitution of the late 18th century did what?
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Term
Americans born whites in Latin America =
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Creoles
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Why did nationalism fail to unify the Aistro-hungarian or Russian Empires?
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They werewere composed of mylti-farious peoples, Languages, and ethnic groups
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Developing nations that sponsored pro-nationalist policies often believed what?
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Then UN univeresal declaration of Human rights was proclaimed in what year?
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Dec 10th 1948
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By 1915 the US railroad network was?
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Number one in the world
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Sultan Mhemit the second's nickname was what
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The Conquerer
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What technology best symbolizes the innovations of the last 50 years?
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computers
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Russian Allies in the Crimean War against the ottoman Empire were who?
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None
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The German Attack at stalingrad durring WWII was important because of what
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Feb 1943 Hitler lost his greates gamble, germans lost big oil supply and Volga river.
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Modernism in the mid 19th century Eyropean culture alued what Characteristics
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Individuality of Expression
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ONe of the greatest barriers to Euro invasian if inland Africa was
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Malaria
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the better European Weapons became the more something grew
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Fire power gap
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Which form of cpulsory labor was peculiar to the English colonies in America
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In 1582 The japanese invade ______
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Korea
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The migration of Afrikaners from british ruled cape colony to the Fertile lands of the north called what?
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The Great Trek
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Shrewedness of founder Osman and His descendants control of the strategic link between Europe and Asia of gallipoli on Dardanelle strait and the creation of an army that took advantages of traditonal skills of the turkish cavalryman and gunpowder
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Why did the Ottomans grow from a small state to a powerful empire?
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pg 525
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The ottomans chief rival in Iran was who?
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Safavid Sahas
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Families in the Late 19th Cent. were considered middle class if only they what?
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had at least one servent
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What was the fate of the Samurai of the 47 ronin incident of 1702?
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Ceremonial Suicide, Seppuku
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The most successful African resistnace against the europeans took place where?
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Ethiopia
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The EIC's rule of India Took off after what event?
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After Victory of Battle Of Bengal
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Most European Nations thought that the war that started in 1914 would what?
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Be the end to all wars be over quickly
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Gandhi transformed the indian independance movement from what group to what group?
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Elites to the poor people/ regular people.
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Slaves resistance in Colonial Latin America was expressed by what?
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Sabotage malingering running away and rebellion
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THe global migration phenomonon of the 20th century was what?
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Non developed countries to developed countries
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Children of Amerindian mothers and white fathers are _____
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Mestizos
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French government's political motive for participating in the new imperialism was to do what?
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Reestablish street cred from the Prussian defeat
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Television did not spread to non-western cultires til what decade?
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60's
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Communist states in the 80s and 90s saw what?
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Despite european accounts that women wore veils most islamic women did what?
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Wore long ample dress with a scraf or long shawl pulled tight over the forehead to conceal hair
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Stalin's first five year plan stressed what?
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Agricultural Modernization
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After declaring independance in 1822, brazil's new gov. was what type?
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Constitutianal Monarchy
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IN 1937 at Nanjing the Japanese troops what happened?
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Rape Of nanjing in december
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Chiang Kai-Shek arch nemesis of Mao amassed an army og three million to do what?
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Fight Mao Zedung
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In the twnetyeth century the lesson learned from the rising economic countries was what?
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that the world was not dominated by the west.
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in seventeen eighty seven the assembly of notables was what?
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called to approve the radical reform of French Economy and fiscal policy comprised of France's most privileged classes reps.
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Empire that replaced ming
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Qing
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During the twentyeth century Josef Stalin's Goal was to what
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industrialize russia
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During the 10th century how did cities change their character?
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pg 707 to much to type
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The cultural and atristic accomplishamnts of the Islamic empires was/were/is
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In the 18th century major source of slaves in the interior of the Bight of Biafra
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Kidnapping
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Mao tse tung's 1934 escape from the Gupmingdang to Shaanxi was called what?
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The Long Trek
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Ocean going ships initially did not use steam power because of what?
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Steam engins could not carry enough coal power for greater then a few days
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Thomas Malthus' explanation of worker's misfortunes was that they would do what?
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Delay marriage and practice selfrestraint and sexual abstinance
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In brazil the economic importance of Amerindian slaves was eventually superseded by what?
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African Slaves
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The first leg of the Great Circuit trade Route was from where to where?
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Begins in Europe runs south to africa then west to Americas and then back to europe
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During THe Reign of terror what happened?
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the French revolution ocurred under maximillian Robespierre the guillotine became very active
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Druring 18th and 19th centureies the world colonies of the wuropean powers did what?
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Rebelled revolted
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During the 1920's the british began slowly to give india what?
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Canada decided to reduc Asian Immigration in the eighteen eightys by doing what?
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Imposing a "head tax' that made the immigration to Canada more difficult for the chinese families.
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