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Semester 2 Exam
World History Honors
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History
10th Grade
05/30/2009

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What cultures influenced the Safavid Empire?
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Persians, Arabs, Ottomans
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Reasons why Japan and China did not actively seek trade with West
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Isolation
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During the 1500's, what was China's trade policy?
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Isolation
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What was the purpose of the Forbidden City?
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Symbolizing Yonglo's power and excluding commoners
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Who built the Taj Mahal? Why?
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Shah Johan; a memorial for his wife
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What European nations led the way in exploration and colonization in the 15th and 16th centuries?
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France, Britain, and Spain
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What did Europeans have to develop before they could find an all-water route to Asia?
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Careval
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What factors decreased the population in the New World?
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Disease and war
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What is the theory behind mercantilism?
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Power of the country depends on its wealth
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Elizabeth of England's belief in balance of power through alliances of equal military power.
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Wealth farming and land
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What does the term "Middle Passage" refer to?
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The path from Africa to the Americas
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Columbian exchange.
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GLobal transfer of plants, animals, and diseases
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African Diaspora.
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Animals and diseases
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Divine Right of Monarch.
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Got the ruling from God
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Why did Peter the Great visit the West?
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To modernize Russia
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What was the Thirty Years' War and what were the consequences of that war?
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A religious conflict between the monarchs of Europe and Spain
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What was the Glorius Revolution?
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Bloodless overthrow of King James II
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What were the beliefs of writers and philosophes during the Enlightenment?
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Apply reason to all aspects of life
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What were the theories of Locke and Rousseau in reference to government?
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Believe people can learn from experience and completed to individual freedom
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What writer influenced Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence?
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John Locke
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What effect did the American Revolution have on other countries?
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Caused the French Revolution
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What were the causes of the French Revolution?
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The Enlightenment
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What were the privileged classes of the Regime?
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First and second estates
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What was Napoleon's relationship to the French Revolution?
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French general that took over
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What was the significance of the Napoleonic Code?
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It was a uniform set of laws
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What were the effects of the political changes created by the Congress of Vienna?
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Related peace
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Define and illustrate nationalism
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Feeling of loyalty
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In what industry did the Industrial Revolution begin?
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Textile industry
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Industrial Revolution-effects on urban population.
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Cities grew
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When did women in Britain earn the right to vote?
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After World War I
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How did the Agricultural Revolution affect the Industrial Revolution?
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Didn't need as many people to farm
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Laissez-faire economics
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Government should not interfere with religion
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Karl Marx and his beliefs
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Introduced a radical socialism called Marxism; working class overthrown
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What did Zionists believe?
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Homeland in Palistine
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What was the connection between the Industrial Revolution aand the Agricultural Revolution?
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Didn't need people for farming; worked in factories instead
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What was the effect of the Great Famine in Ireland?
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Half a million people fled and fell into debt
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What was the effect of the civil war on US economy?
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Speeded industrialization and also immigration
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How did various inventions affect the daily lives of 19th century people in industrialized nations?
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Improved clothing making
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What was the goal of various Christian missionaries through the world?
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To civilize nations
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How did Social Darwinism "justify" imperialism?
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Europeans believed they had to spread religion
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Extent of British colonial empire.
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All around the world from Asia to Africa to the Americas
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Spain's religious conflicts (1600s) with England dealt with what issues?
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Catholics versus Protestants
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What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
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So Eurpoean powers couldn't colonize
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What was the extent of the British colonial empire?
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All around the world from Asia to Africa to the Americas
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Open door policy.
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All nations will be equal oppurtunity to trade
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Japanese imperialism in Korea.
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Japanese invaded and colonized Korea in World War I
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Panama canal.
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Human made waterway connected Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
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What assassination triggered World War I in Europe?
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Francis Ferdinand
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Name the Central Powers during World War I.
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Germany and Hungary
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In what sense was World War I a "total war"?
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All the countries' resources were devoted to the war
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What was the final outcome of World War I?
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Allies won, Central Power lost
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Who was the Balshevik leader in the November Revolution?
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Vladamir Lenin
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What was the result of the Bolshevik Revolution?
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Bolsheviks took over Russia
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What were the effects of the global depression in the 1930s?
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The rest of the wars economy suffered because of American inventors
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What factors led to the rise of the Nazi Party?
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Loss of World War I and the claps of Germany
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What were the Nuremberg Laws?
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Deprived Jews of rights
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The failure of appeasement policy of France and Britain at Munich caused what events?
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Hitler took over
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Mussolin's invasion of Ethiopia.
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October 1935
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What is militarism?
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Policy glorifying militant power
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Who were the Allied leaders opposed to the actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1940s?
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Roosevelt and Churchill
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What event marked the beginning of World War II in Europe?
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Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1934
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Genocide during the Holocaust.
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6 million Jews were killed
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What were the costs of World War II in human terms?
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50 million people died
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Why was United Nations formed?
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To protect members against aggression and keep peace after WW2
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What was the Marshall Plan?
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US program of economic aid
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Establishment of the State of Israel.
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May 14, 1948
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Korean War.
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1950-1953
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Domino theory.
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All nations fall under communist control
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What enabled Mao Zedong and the communists to seize control of China after World War II?
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Kept the weapons and used them to fight in other ways
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What were the characteristics of the Cold War era?
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Secret operations between the US and the Soviet Union
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Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam?
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They wanted to stop communism
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Camp David accords.
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Signed in 1979 toward Egypt
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Nelson Mandela/Apartheid.
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First black president
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Mahandas Gandhi.
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Non-violent leader
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What economic problems plague post colonial Africa?
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Economic development
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What is the goal of the "green revolution"?
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To increase global crop growth
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Collapse of Soviet Union ending Cold War-reasons for/consequences of perestrokia/glasnot?
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Soviet Union connect compete with USA
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Perestrokia/glasnot.
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A recurring of the Soviet Union
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Berlin Wall-buliding, destruction, significance.
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Built in 1961, fell in 1989
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AIDS.
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Shelby Alexandra Feigenbaum is HIV+
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What terriorist groip is responsible for the 9-11 attacks?
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Al-Quaeda
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What were Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg trials charged with?
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Crime gains humanity
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What event marked the end of World War II?
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Japan surrenders on September 2
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World War II leaders.
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Roosevelt and Churchill
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