World History Final - Spring Semester (copy)

Test will be 70 multiple choice questions.

Which dynasty replaced the Mongols, returned to the civil service exams, and for a time sent out major naval expeditions for trade and exploration?

Ming

Which of the following did the Manchus do to bring the Chinese people to their side when they began ruling China?

Gave Government spots to the Chinese

Which peasant rebellion was the beginning of the decline of the Qing dynasty?

White Lotus Rebellion

When Britain is buying more from China than they are selling to China, Britain is said to have a?

Trade Deficit

What good are the British going to discover will turn around their trade relationship with China?

Opium

Which of the following is NOT a stipulation of the treaty of Nanjing?

China gave the Hunan Province to Britain

What was the peasant rebellion that caused the death of 20 million people? The dynasty had help of warlords and Europeans to put this rebellion down.

Tai Ping Rebellion

Which of the following was NOT a reason why the Ming stopped sending out Naval expeditions?

Chinese were scared of foreigners

The attempt to modernize that included adopting western technology but keeping Confucian values was?

Self-Strengthening Movement

When the Europeans divided up China into areas where a foreign country had exclusive trading rights, these areas were called?

Spheres of Influence

What event should have proven to the Chinese they need to modernize?

Sino-Japanese War

What event did finally convince the Chinese they needed to modernize?

Boxer Rebellion

What was the name of the nationalist party in China?

Guomindang

Which of the following was NOT one of the Three Principles of the People?

export of Chinese ideas to other countries

Who was given credit for the revolution of 1911 and its success?

Sun Yat-Sen

What did the foreign groups have to do to defeat the boxers?

combine their militaries into one army

The event when the communists spend about a year traveling over 6000 miles on foot to avoid being destroyed by the Nationalists was called?

Long March

Who was trying to destroy the Communists that made the Long March necessary?

Chiang Kai-shek

Who was the leader of the Communists in China who will win the civil war with the Nationalists?

Mao Zedong

Who helped China’s economy by introducing capitalism into the economic system of China?

Deng Xiaoping

Which of the following is NOT one of the four main islands of Japan?

Tokugawa

The level of Feudalism that is present in Japan that was not present in China was?

Shogun

Which clan will take over Japan and form the only dynasty to ever rule the country?

Yamato

Shinto worships nature spirits called?

Kami

Because their roles became less and less in Japan, women were only allowed to be involved in what?

Art and Literature

Which of the following was NOT a Korean Kingdom before Korea was united?

Yalu

Which of the following was a name for one of the Korean dynasties that ruled after it was united?

Koryo

Which region of Southeast Asia was attractive to Europeans because of the presence of spices?

Island Southeast Asia

Which Kingdom in Southeast Asia was the only one influenced by China?

Vietnam

How did the Japanese deal with the arrival of foreigners in Japan?

welcoming at first, later less trusting

When the Tokugawa Shoguns were able to control the Daimyo without needing the Daimyo’s armies, what system did the Tokugawa use to do this?

centralized feudalism

Which Korean dynasty decided to cut itself off from foreigners, earning the nickname, “The Hermit Kingdom”?

Yi (Choson)

What is imperialism?

having colonies

Which of the following was NOT a reason why westerners began to search for new colonies after 1880?

they liked the challenge of conquering people

What are the most common ways countries make money off of their colonies?

Raw materials and markets

In which type of rule do those who will do the ruling come from the colonizing country?

Direct Rule

In which type of rule are local rulers allowed to keep some authority and status?

Indirect Rule

Which was the only area of Southeast Asia to NOT be colonized by any European country?

Siam

Which area did France colonize?

Indochina

Which areas did Great Britain colonize?

Burma and Singapore

Which of the following is NOT a stipulation of the treaty between Japan and the U.S. that forced Japan to open up to foreigners?

Japan Pays indemnity for the war with the U.S.

What is the name of the treaty between the U.S. and Japan that forced Japan to open up to foreigners?

Treaty of Kanagawa

Which of the following events was an outcome of the U.S. forcing Japan to open up for trade?

the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate

The Meiji Constitution was designed to:

Look Democratic but not be Democratic

Wealthy families who were given complete control over industries in modernizing Japan were called?

Zaibatsu

What meeting did the U.S. hold with the purpose of keeping the Open Door policy in effect in China and trying to prevent future wars by limiting the size of navies?

Washington Naval Conference

The Japanese army attacking and taking Manchuria on their own authority illustrates the control who has over the government at this time?

Militarists

How did Chiang Kai-Shek deal with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria?

Not much, he was worried about the Communists.

Why did Japan feel they needed to take South Asia as colonies?

They needed resources to fight the Soviet Union

Why did Japan decide to attack the U.S.?

U.S. sanctions on oil and iron were harmful.

What belief did U.S. government officials hold that made them believe that Vietnam was the most important issue for the U.S. at the time?

Domino Theory

Who was the leader of the Communist forces in Vietnam?

Ho Chi Minh

Which Southeast Asian country was colonized by the Netherlands and has had leaders Achmed Sukarno and General Suharto?

Indonesia

Which Southeast Asian country has been controlled by the military since the 1960s and had Aung San Suu Kyi receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in helping this country?

Myanmar

Which Southeast Asian countries survived wars with the French and U.S. to reunite their country in 1975?

Vietnam

Which Southeast Asian country has moved towards greater democracy after ousting dictator, Ferdinand Marcos from power?

The Philippines

Which Southeast Asian country had a brutal dictator named Pol Pot who murdered 1/3 of the countries population?

Cambodia

What is the collective name given to South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong?

Asian Tigers

Which American leader helped begin the Japanese Miracle by writing a constitution for Japan?

MacArthur

Which belief was disproved by events that occurred after the end of the Vietnam War?

Domino Theory

In which climate zone of Africa would most of the farming take place?

Savanna

Several families who would claim they had descended from a common ancestor were known as?

lineages

When inheritance is passed down through the female line, a society is said to be what?

Matrilineal

Which West African King sparked the first European interest in Africa?

Mansa Musa

In order to control large portions of West Africa, kingdoms needed to control what?

the Gold-Salt Trade

In East Africa, what did people use rather than empires to organize their trade?

city-states

What culture emerged from East African contacts with Middle Eastern traders?

Swahili

What made the African Slave trade possible?

Africans willing to sell other Africans

What was one significant effect of the Slave Trade on Africa?

entire societies disappeared

What was one way Europeans justified to themselves being in the slave trade?

Social Darwinism

Which North African country gained its independence in 1805, modernized, and eventually built the Suez Canal?

Egypt

To which European country is the Suez Canal one of the most important places on Earth?

Great Britain

Which colony became extremely important to France because they had 150,000 French settlers there?

Algeria

To prevent wars between European countries over colonies in Africa, what meeting was held in Europe?

The Congress of Berlin

Which country taking a colony in Central Africa really set off the race for colonies in Africa?

Belgium

Which country was the first to colonize South Africa?

The Netherlands

What was discovered in the Boer Republics that led to the Boer Wars?

Gold and Diamonds

What is the name of the series of laws passed in South Africa designed to keep whites in power forever?

Apartheid

What is the idea that all Africans should work together regardless of where they live?

Pan Africanism

What was the name of the organization in South Africa to work for the rights of Black South Africans?

African National Congress

The most significant geographic feature of the Greek Peninsula is?

Mountains

Which Greek civilization fought in the Trojan War?

Mycenaean

What are long poems that tell a story called?

Epic poems

Who wrote the *Iliad* and the *Odyssey*?

Homer

Which of the following would have political rights in Greek city states?

Men

Which Athenian reformer ended debt slavery and freed those already in it?

Solon

Which Athenian reformer wrote down all of the laws of Athens?

Draco

Which Athenian reformer succeeded in making Athens a democracy?

Cleisthenes

Which Athenian reformer limited the amount of land one person could own and gave it to the peasants?

Peisistratus

Who seized power by force in Greek city states?

Tyrants

Who were the slaves in Sparta?

Helots

What did Sparta base its entire society on?

Military

Which battles were important in the Persian Wars?

Marathon and Thermopylae

All citizens taking part in all laws is called?

Direct Democracy

Which Greek historian was the first to believe events should be recorded to keep track of?

Herodotus

Which Greek philosopher saw himself as a teacher and was later executed by Athens?

Socrates

Which Greek philosopher founded Stoicism?

Zeno

Which Greek philosopher hated democracy?

Socrates, Aristotle, Plato

Who proposed the idea that the sun was the center of the universe? Even though it took 2000 years, everybody eventually came to believe him.

Aristarchus

Who calculated the circumference of the Earth with great accuracy?

Eratosthenes