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Riley Final Test
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Undergraduate 2
08/04/2010

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Long-term economic planning?
Definition
Mercantilism
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The inventor of movable type?
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Johann Gutenburg
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The Ninety-five Theses?
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Martin Luther
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In France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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Politiques
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Natural rights Theory
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John Locke
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Occidental Slave Trade cam from?
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West Africa
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The Legislative branch?
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Parliament
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The extensive estates which are composed of palaces and gardens?
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Versailles
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In Northwestern Europe most of the agricultural labor force was composed of?
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Peasants
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Inventor of the Steam Engine?
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James Watt
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Migrated to the Americas from?
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Siberia
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First permanent English colony?
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Jamestown, VA
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Helio-centric Theory
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Italian scientist who used the telescope
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Galileo Galilei
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The mutual attraction of heavenly bodies, The Calculus
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Isaac Newton
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Published between 1751 and 1772 the twenty-eight volume work
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Encyplopedia
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French nobility who fled from France
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Emigres
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Nations government allows its citizens to practice whatever decent religious beliefs
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Religious Toleration
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A meeting which would ultimately redraw the map of Europe
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Congress of Vienna
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The final battle of Napoleon Bonapartes military career
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Battle of Waterloo
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After Napoleon Bonapartes final military defeat he was exiled to
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Island of St. Helena
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The political statement which closed the Western Hemisphere
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Monroe Doctrine
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An intense pride in ones own nation
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Nationalism
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The Prime Minister of the German state of Prussia
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Count Otto Von Bismarck
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European governments attempted to restrict the flow of modern weapons into Africa
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Brussels Convention of 1890
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Hard surface roads, permanent bridges, railroads, canals, harbor facilities
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Infrastructure
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The style of African colonial administration which placed Africans under the complete authority of the European Administrators was know as
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Direct Rule
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The man who is credited with the theory of Natural Selection
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Charles Darwin
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Economic domination of Latin American nations by the United States
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Dollar Diplomacy
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Military domination of Latin American nations by the United States
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Gunboat Diplomacy
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The event which officially started the hostilities know as world war 1
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand the aer to the thrown of the Austro-Hungarian
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The British news agency during WW1 was known as
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Reuters
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When a nation is defeated in war it usually must make payments
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Reparations
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President Woodrow Wilsons ideas for a just lasting peace
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Fourteen Points
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The treaty which ended WW1
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Treaty of Versailles
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The new international peace keeping organization
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League of Nations
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An American economic assistance program in the year 1924
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The Dawes Plan
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The disarmament movement of the post world war 1 era ended when
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The Japanese delegation wasted out at the London Naval Conference of 1935
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Which one of the following was not among the causes of the Great Depression
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A) Agricultural recession
B) Protectionist tariff policies
C) Shady stock practices
D) Maldistribution of wealth
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Which one of the following was not among the causes of WW2
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A) The treaty which ended WW1
B) England was an unreliable ally
C) The US and Soviet Union were isolationist
D) Territorial acquisitions
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Great Britain declared war in WW2 when
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Germany invaded the nation of Poland
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The National Socialist Workers Party
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Nazis
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Benito Mussolini developmental program
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Fascism
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At this wartime conference in December of 1941
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Washington
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Which one of the following was not among the results of WW2
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A) The US and USSR rose to Superpower
B) Europe and Japan were devastated
C) Germany was divided into two nations
D) In the US a military industrial complex had been created
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The American policy of attempting to halt the further spread of Communism is called
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Containment
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It must be the policy if the US to support free peoples
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Truman Doctrine
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Fought during the early 1950s in Northeastern Asia
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The Korean Conflict
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leader in French Indochina was named
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Ho Chi Minh
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The closest that the world has ever come to complete nuclear holocaust was during the
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Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962
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