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| 4450223478 | The first factories developed in what industry? | B) textiles | 0 | |
| 4450229573 | Bloody Sunday served as a turning point in Russia because... | B) it caused the people to lose faith in the tsar | 1 | |
| 4450241460 | How did the Renaissance contribute to the Age of Exploration? | B) by awakening a spirit of discovery and innovation in Europe | 2 | |
| 4450298950 | In 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin set in the war? | B) to achieve victory in Europe before trying to achieve it in Asia | 3 | |
| 4450306682 | In recent years, Latin American governments have been trying to promote agriculture by... | B) backing efforts to open more land to farming | 4 | |
| 4450325120 | What was the goal of the Yalta Conference? | A) to reach an agreement on what to do with postwar Europe | 5 | |
| 4450393091 | In the 1830s, Prussia created a union called the Zollverein, which promoted German unity by... | B) removing tariff barriers between German states | 6 | |
| 4450398638 | Who were the Boers? | D) Dutch farmers who settled around Cape Town | 7 | |
| 4450460320 | The Cold War ended when... | B) the Soviet Union collapsed. | 8 | |
| 4450463999 | Many older members of the European Union (EU) think that the expansion of the EU into Eastern Europe will... | C) weaken the EU's overall economy | 9 | |
| 4450482091 | The interest of Europeans in Iran intensified with what discovery in the region? | A) oil | 10 | |
| 4450501079 | . What was a result of Gorbachev's perestroika? | C) Polish nationalists demanded more Soviet control. | 11 | |
| 4450579796 | Who was the first leader of an independent Brazil? | D) Pedro I | 12 | |
| 4450584901 | Why did Japanese forces attack Manchuria? | B) to gain control of its rich natural resources | 13 | |
| 4450596152 | Before the rise of the Ottoman Empire, Anatolia was a... | B) region consisting of a number of small, independent Turkish states. | 14 | |
| 4450603341 | U.S.-led forces attacked Iraq in 2003 after Iraq | B) invaded Kuwait. | 15 | |
| 4450633159 | Which revolutionary leader helped Argentina win freedom from Spain? | A) José de San Martín | 16 | |
| 4450643370 | Which of the following revolutionaries wanted to unite all of South America into the Federation of the Andes? | D) Simón Bolívar | 17 | |
| 4450647807 | What was a goal of revolutionaries in the Italian states in 1848? | B) to end Hapsburg domination and set up constitutional governments | 18 | |
| 4450663256 | Which group consisted of dissenters who sought to change Catholic practices in the Church of England? | D) Puritans | 19 | |
| 4450673761 | "The greatest happiness for the greatest number" was a goal of... | D) utilitarianism | 20 | |
| 4467663189 | Conflict between the Tutsis and Hutus led to civil war in the nations of Rwanda and... | B) Burundi. | 21 | |
| 4467665240 | Which of the following was a long-term result of the Industrial Revolution? | D) a general decline in the standard of living | 22 | |
| 4467668660 | The rise to power of the Tokugawa family resulted in... | D) Japanese isolation. | 23 | |
| 4467671527 | Robespierre believed that France could achieve a "republic of virtue" only through... | A) the use of terror. | 24 | |
| 4467673107 | In Spanish colonial society, creoles were... | C) people of African and European descent. | 25 | |
| 4467676211 | What was one result of the Sepoy Rebellion? | A) Parliament ended the rule of the East India Company. | 26 | |
| 4467678439 | Which of the following revolutionary leaders came to oppose the violent excesses of the Revolution? | B) George-Jacques Danton | 27 | |
| 4467680891 | Meiji reformers chose to model the new Japanese government after the government of... | B) Germany. | 28 | |
| 4467682001 | Part of the legacy of the French Revolution is that... | D) it has inspired people to fight for their rights in other parts of the world. | 29 | |
| 4467683393 | The Dual Monarchy was a combination of... | A) Austria and Hungary. | 30 | |
| 4467687594 | What Egyptian leader nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956? | D) Gamal Abdel Nasser | 31 | |
| 4467689169 | What was the eventual result of Sun Yixian's efforts to rebuild China based on the Three Principles of the People? | B) China fell into chaos and Sun stepped down. | 32 | |
| 4467690255 | What did the Soviet Union do during Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939? | B) It attacked Poland from the east as part of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. | 33 | |
| 4467691934 | China's Great Leap Forward resulted in... | C) sharp drops in agricultural production and widespread famine. | 34 | |
| 4467693682 | Portugal refused to comply with the Continental System because... | C) it depended on its trade with Great Britain. | 35 | |
| 4467697218 | In 1931, Japanese ultranationalists seized the Chinese province of... | B) Manchuria. | 36 | |
| 4467699261 | What event led to a decisive shift away from isolationism in the United States? | A) the attack on Pearl Harbor | 37 | |
| 4467701034 | According to laissez-faire economists, the cure for poverty was... | D) an unrestricted free market. | 38 | |
| 4467704404 | The National Assembly voted to pay off the huge government debt by... | B) selling Church lands. | 39 | |
| 4467706141 | Mercantilists would advocate that a nation do which of the following? | D) Sell more goods than it buys from foreign countries. | 40 | |
| 4467707570 | What triggered the events that resulted in the formation of the Church of England? | A) Henry VIII wanted a divorce. | 41 | |
| 4467712822 | The United States helped to end apartheid in South Africa by... | B) imposing economic sanctions on South Africa. | 42 | |
| 4467715546 | Joint stock companies allowed early European capitalists to... | A) raise large amounts of capital. | 43 | |
| 4467717007 | What goal did Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo di Cavour, and Giuseppe Garibaldi all have in common? | D) the unification of Italy | 44 | |
| 4467720574 | What happened to the defeated Chinese Nationalists? | D) They fled to the island of Taiwan. | 45 | |
| 4467721849 | What contributed to the start of the English Civil War? | A) Charles I refused to sign the English Bill of Rights. | 46 | |
| 4467723218 | The militarists who came to power in Japan in the 1930s... | B) used schools to teach students absolute obedience to the emperor. | 47 | |
| 4467731791 | The United States gained control of the land for the Panama Canal by... | C) helping the Panamanian revolt against Colombia in exchange for the land. | 48 | |
| 4467733880 | What pushed the British to help create the independent nations of Pakistan and India in 1947? | B) Minority Tamils demanded a separate nation. | 49 | |
| 4467735020 | French Indochina was made up of... | B) Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. | 50 | |
| 4467750349 | What was a reason why Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990? | D) to gain greater access to the Persian Gulf | 51 | |
| 4467754208 | How did the Chinese economy fare under the Qing dynasty? | A) Farm output increased and Chinese industry expanded. | 52 | |
| 4467755139 | How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931? | B) It condemned Japan's action but did nothing to stop it. | 53 | |
| 4467756532 | The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were social reform programs led by which leader? | C) Mao Zedong | 54 | |
| 4467759607 | Humanist scholars differed from medieval thinkers in that humanists... | D) tended to focus more on worldly subjects. | 55 | |
| 4467760921 | Bolshevik opponents came to be called... | C) the White Army. | 56 | |
| 4467769851 | The Line of Demarcation divided world trade and exploration rights between the... | C) Spanish and Portuguese. | 57 | |
| 4467771197 | The Nuremberg Laws... | D) aimed at including Jews in mainstream life in Germany. | 58 | |
| 4467777420 | People who advocated social democracy wanted to... | B) move from capitalism to socialism by democratic means. | 59 | |
| 4467783740 | Which countries were members of the Triple Alliance? | B) Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary | 60 | |
| 4467788411 | In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal.... | B) education. | 61 | |
| 4467795058 | What helped drive the tremendous growth of the U.S. economy after World War II? | B) consumer spending | 62 | |
| 4467800202 | When the Soviet Union collapsed, what happened to its stockpiles of nuclear materials? | A) They became difficult to maintain and secure. | 63 | |
| 4467846815 | Which of the following is considered to be a benefit of global trade? | C) It exposes people to new ideas and technology. | 64 | |
| 4467849937 | What caused the War of Austrian Succession? | A) the rivalry between the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns | 65 | |
| 4467887723 | One way that Renaissance artists reflected the new ideas of humanism was by painting... | A) well-known people of the day. | 66 | |
| 4467896097 | According to socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was... | A) shared ownership by the people of the means of production. | 67 | |
| 4467907674 | The October Manifesto was issued in response to... | D) the Russian Revolution of 1905. | 68 | |
| 4467933297 | Which of the following was one of Sun Yixian's "Three Principles of the People?" | C) economic security for all Chinese | 69 | |
| 4467934395 | During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way? | C) People migrated from rural areas to cities. | 70 | |
| 4467937610 | What did the Palestinians get in the 1993 Oslo Accord? | C) limited self-rule in Gaza and the West Bank | 71 | |
| 4467943700 | Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of... | D) Russification. | 72 | |
| 4467946479 | Conservative leaders in Latin America in the 1800s believed in... | D) the traditional social order. | 73 | |
| 4467953986 | Why did Britain begin exporting opium to China? | C) to change the balance of trade in favor of Britain | 74 | |
| 4467960676 | How did India change its approach to developing its economy in the early 1980s? | A) It shifted to more of a free-market system. | 75 | |
| 4467965825 | The ideas of liberals were sometimes called "bourgeois liberalism" because liberals spoke mostly for the... | C) middle class. | 76 | |
| 4467968575 | Begun in the early 1980s in China, Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations program was designed to... | B) increase government control of the economy. | 77 | |
| 4467988057 | Which of the following did Winston Churchill use as an image to describe the division of Europe? | D) an iron curtain | 78 | |
| 4467993236 | How did Agustín de Iturbide become emperor of Mexico? | A) by cultivating the favor of the Roman Catholic Church and receiving the title from the pope | 79 | |
| 4468036272 | One result of the October Manifesto was... | B) the establishment of the Duma. | 80 | |
| 4468045467 | What did the British and French do at the Munich Conference in 1938 to avoid war? | B) They persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland. | 81 | |
| 4468052982 | As independence neared for British India, the Congress Party wanted to... | C) have a unified India that would include both Muslims and Hindus. | 82 | |
| 4468062809 | What was the reaction in 1947 to the United Nations plan to divide Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states? | D) The Jews accepted the plan, but the Arabs rejected it. | 83 | |
| 4468067101 | Nationalism remained a problem under the Dual Monarchy because... | B) ethnic minorities continued to seek self-government. | 84 | |
| 4468071860 | Which of the following is the best explanation for Russia's entrance into World War I? | A) Russia wanted to defend the Slavic peoples in Serbia. | 85 | |
| 4468079805 | Which series of events led to World War I? | An Austrian-Hungarian nobleman was assassinated, Germany moved to support Austria, and Great Britain declared war on Germany. | 86 | |
| 4468091307 | Britain passed the Navigation Acts to... | C) regulate colonial trade and manufacturing. | 87 | |
| 4468119552 | Which of the following groups seized complete control of Russia in 1917? | D) the Bolsheviks | 88 | |
| 4468122615 | The Boer War was sparked by... | B) the discovery of gold and diamonds on Boer-held lands. | 89 | |
| 4468129615 | What was a cause of Stalin's Great Purge? | D) Peasants did not want to give up their land to the state. | 90 | |
| 4468134173 | To defend their merchant ships against attacks from German submarines, the Allies... | C) organized the merchant ships into convoys. | 91 | |
| 4468136383 | What resulted from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555? | B) Each German prince could decide the religion for his lands. | 92 | |
| 4468148533 | What was a major cause of conflict within the empire of King Charles V? | B) Charles suppressed Protestantism in the German states. | 93 | |
| 4468152495 | Which of following was written by Denis Diderot in order to promote knowledge? | D) the Encyclopedia | 94 | |
| 4468175813 | Which of the following was one of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points? | A) a statement of American neutrality in World War I | 95 | |
| 4468179593 | Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because... | D) he wanted the Soviet Union's vast natural resources. | 96 | |
| 4468186092 | In Ming China, why did European traders pay for Chinese silks and porcelains in gold or silver instead of exchanging trade goods? | B) The Chinese did not want inferior European trade goods. | 97 | |
| 4468191159 | What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s? | D) pursuit of a classless society | 98 | |
| 4468192824 | The rights outlined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen did not extend to... | D) women. | 99 | |
| 4468236474 | In the 1991 Gulf War, the goal of the U.S.-led coalition was to... | D) drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. | 100 | |
| 4468260662 | Which foods were first introduced to the Americas by Europeans through the Columbian Exchange? | A) wheat and grapes | 101 | |
| 4468264377 | The Ming dynasty declined because... | B) competition among heirs to the throne led to a divided dynasty. | 102 | |
| 4468272157 | Which of the following was a Social Darwinist argument in favor of Western imperialism? | C) Westerners thought they had a duty to bring their civilization to inferior races. | 103 | |
| 4468277440 | Why were William and Mary crowned king and queen of England? | D) to restore the English monarchy | 104 | |
| 4468308985 | The mercantile system in Britain was replaced by... | A) laissez-faire economics. | 105 | |
| 4468304774 | What theory applied the idea of natural selection to the development of business and society? | C) Social Darwinism | 106 | |
| 4468314702 | What were the Young Turks fighting against in 1908? | D) the absolute power of the sultan | 107 | |
| 4468318638 | The Spanish colonial economy was based largely on... | D) the mining of gold and silver. | 108 | |
| 4468326002 | What type of government was created in England by the Glorious Revolution? | B) limited monarchy | 109 | |
| 4468331106 | Desiderius Erasmus's works were censored in Paris and condemned by the Church because... | A) his works fanned the flames of discontent with the Church. | 110 | |
| 4468334560 | The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of... | C) containment. | 111 | |
| 4468344714 | The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa were the work of the great artist... | A) Leonardo da Vinci. | 112 | |
| 4468348893 | The U.S. strategy of "island-hopping" in the Pacific... | C) allowed the U.S. to gradually move north toward Japan. | 113 | |
| 4468352154 | Which country was able to preserve its independence by defeating Italian invaders in 1896? | D) Ethiopia | 114 | |
| 4468357829 | Which minority group has faced harsh discrimination in the countries of Turkey and Iraq? | C) Kurds | 115 | |
| 4468362973 | What action did the Western Allies take after World War II that caused the Soviets to strengthen their hold on East Germany? | A) They helped western Germany rebuild its economy. | 116 | |
| 4468366744 | Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi... | B) called for the violent overthrow of the British | 117 | |
| 4468377362 | Which of the following resulted from the October Revolution in Russia? | D) The Soviet Union was formed. | 118 | |
| 4468385303 | How did Hobbes and Rousseau differ? | C) Rousseau believed in the idea of a social contract; Hobbes did not. | 119 | |
| 4468407165 | Who did King Leopold II hire to explore the Congo River basin and arrange trade treaties with African leaders? | C) Henry Stanley. | 120 | |
| 4468411965 | The Reign of Terror resulted in... | A) increased foreign opposition to the French Revolution. | 121 | |
| 4469034574 | The United Arab Republic was an example of... | D) Zionism. | 122 | |
| 4469040954 | Which of the following events caused Britain to fight in World War I? | A) Germany invaded Belgium. | 123 | |
| 4469043025 | What enabled the Ottomans to expand beyond Anatolia? | D) Christianity's decline in the Byzantine Empire | 124 | |
| 4469049517 | Which best describes political motives driving the new European imperialism in Africa? | B) Population decline led European countries to look to Africa for workers to fuel industrialization in home countries. | 125 | |
| 4469053745 | Bismarck introduced many social reforms in Germany because he wanted to... | A) avoid a socialist revolution. | 126 | |
| 4469057366 | Islamic fundamentalism is a conservative reform movement whose goal is to... | B) install governments that strictly followed Sharia. | 127 | |
| 4469066354 | The idea of separation of powers in the Constitution was borrowed from Enlightenment thinker... | B) Montesquieu. | 128 | |
| 4469070673 | What caused the start of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980? | B) The Iranians oppressed Sunni Arabs in Iran. | 129 | |
| 4469169407 | During the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive... | C) turned American public opinion against the war. | 130 | |
| 4469173635 | How did Joseph Stalin punish Ukrainians who resisted collectivization? | C) He withheld all food from the region. | 131 | |
| 4469185116 | In the early 1930s, which of the following contributed to the spread of economic problems around the world? | B) Governments raised tariffs to protect their economies. | 132 | |
| 4469198445 | Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917 during the November revolution? | B) V.I. Lenin. | 133 | |
| 4469204002 | During the Tokugawa period the role of the samurai changed because... | D) peace put the samurai out of work. | 134 | |
| 4469245226 | What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people? | D) John Locke | 135 | |
| 4469248365 | According to anti-globalizers, what effect does globalization often have on developing nations? | C) It creates economic specialization. | 136 | |
| 4469255778 | In Nicaragua's civil war that began in 1979, why did the United States support the contras against the Sandinistas? | B) The contras were anti-communist. | 137 | |
| 4469259694 | The Indian National Congress was formed to... | A) push for Indian self-rule. | 138 | |
| 4469282016 | The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to... | B) find a water route around Africa to India. | 139 | |
| 4469289442 | The population of Europe exploded between 1800 and 1900 in large part because... | D) medical advances reduced the death rate. | 140 | |
| 4469291246 | One consequence of the Green Revolution was that... | D) crop prices dropped, forcing small farmers out of business. | 141 | |
| 4469296606 | Before World War II, Hitler's Nazi government... | A) passed restrictive laws severely limiting the rights of Jews. | 142 | |
| 4469305562 | In 1800, Austria was ruled by the oldest ruling house in Europe, called the... | C) Hapsburgs. | 143 | |
| 4469310958 | For the Soviet Union, what was the turning point in the war in Europe? | B) their victory at Stalingrad | 144 | |
| 4469319608 | When the Mughal empire weakened, British and French armies fought for power in India with the help of Indian troops known as... | D) sepoys. | 145 | |
| 4469322650 | Which of the following statements most accurately describes the economy of Italy in the years after unification? | C) Rising industry led to rapid urbanization and a modern economy. | 146 | |
| 4469342924 | The purpose of apartheid in South Africa was to... | D) ensure white economic, political, and social supremacy. | 147 | |
| 4469348241 | According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is... | C) an absolute monarchy. | 148 | |
| 4469354132 | The Reign of Terror gave way to the Directory phase of the revolution in which the dominant political force was the... | D) bourgeoisie. | 149 | |
| 4469357357 | Chinese who turned to the revolutionary ideas of Marx and Lenin gained strong support from... | D) the Soviet Union. | 150 | |
| 4469359862 | What was the immediate cause of the Sepoy Mutiny? | A) the refusal of Hindu priests of Delhi to support Christian rule in India | 151 | |
| 4469374384 | The ascension of William and Mary to the throne of England became known as the... | D) Glorious Revolution. | 152 | |
| 4469378842 | Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because... | D) disease was a natural means of population control. | 153 | |
| 4469385441 | Why did Ming emperors decide to isolate China? | D) They disliked the influence of the Europeans and sought to preserve China's traditions. | 154 | |
| 4469390426 | Ulrich Zwingli founded a church in Switzerland that had which of these at its base? | A) secularism | 155 | |
| 4469394187 | What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact accomplish for Germany? | C) It allowed the union of Germany and Hungary. | 156 | |
| 4469398645 | Which of the following were writers of the realism movement? | D) Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo | 157 | |
| 4469401059 | Economist Adam Smith argued that, in a free market, business activity would be regulated by the forces of... | B) supply and demand. | 158 | |
| 4469402375 | Which of the following was a result of the Russo-Japanese War? | B) Russia gained control of parts of Manchuria. | 159 | |
| 4469406674 | The English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were mainly set up as... | A) havens for persecuted religious groups. | 160 | |
| 4469407807 | Britain's colonial empire fueled the development of industry in that country because... | C) workers in the colonies earned far less than workers in Britain. | 161 | |
| 4469413201 | One effect of the Thirty Years' War was... | D) the severe depopulation of Europe. | 162 | |
| 4469415889 | David Livingstone believed that opening the interior of Africa to Christianity and trade would... | B) end the slave trade. | 163 | |
| 4469418286 | Toussaint L'Ouverture led a revolt that eventually resulted in independence for.... | A) Haiti | 164 | |
| 4469420832 | In the 1700s, Latin American political and social life was dominated by the... | D) peninsulares. | 165 | |
| 4469422409 | Following Islamic law, the Ottomans... | D) allowed religious freedom. | 166 | |
| 4469426111 | In the Zimmermann note, Germany offered which of the following to Mexico if it joined the Central Powers? | D) the return of Mexican lands held by the United States | 167 | |
| 4469427374 | Which of the following Mughal leaders came into conflict with the Sikhs? | A) Jahangir | 168 | |
| 4469433063 | The establishment of the "putting-out system" would later lead to... | C) capitalist-owned factories of the Industrial Revolution. | 169 | |
| 4469441144 | The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution because... | B) some people argued the Constitution did not protect the rights of citizens. | 170 | |
| 4469443540 | The Congress of Vienna promoted the principle of legitimacy by... | C) restoring hereditary monarchies. | 171 |
