Which sequence of events is listed in the correct chronological order:
French Revolution
Crusades
Renaissance
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Crusades, Renaissance, French Revolution
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From the 15th to the 18th centuries, absolute monarchs of Europe and Asia sought to
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centralize their political power
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Which effect did the Mughals have on India during their rule?
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Muslim culture dominated in parts of India.
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One way Japanese feudalism during the Tokugawa shogunate was different from European feudalism is that during this period of Japanese feudalism
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political power was more centralized
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Which of these situations was the direct result of the other three?
Nations of Latin America won independence.
Revolutions occurred in North America and France.
The Napoleonic wars weakened Spain's power.
Creoles and mestizos became discontented with Spanish rule.
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Revolutions occurred in North America and France.
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In The Prince, Machiavelli advises rulers to
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establish and maintain power
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A main goal of the monarchs of Europe during the Age of Absolutism was to
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centralize political power
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Francis Bacon, Galileo, and Isaac Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based orn
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experimentation and observation
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Vasco da Gama discovered an all-water route Europe to India Ferdinand Magellan's crew circumnavigated the globe Isaac Newton defined the forces of gravity. These events relate most directly to
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revised understandings of natural surroundings
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Which statement about government during the Tokugawa period in Japan is most accurate?
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Actual power was held by the shogun.
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Which empire became powerful partly because of its location near the Mediterranean Sea?
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Ottoman
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The rule of Akbar the Great is important because he
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accepted diversity and practiced religious toleration
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What was the Tokugawa policy toward foreign trade?
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No foreign trade.
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The fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman Turks (1453) prompted Spain and Portugal to
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seek new trade routes to East Asia
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Which has been a major change resulting from the industrialization of Western Europe?
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increased social mobility
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Which condition is most necessary to the process of industrialization in a society?
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availability of investment capital
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During the Industrial Revolution in England, the failure of social advances to keep up with technological advances led to
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an increased demand by the working class for reform
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Japan began an aggressive policy of imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries because Japan
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needed raw materials for its factories
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Which situation resulted from the Russo- Japanese War of 1905?
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Dissident groups challenged the power of the Russian Czar.
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A primary reason for Japan's involvement in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo- Japanese War was to
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acquire natural resources in Manchuria and Korea
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The Opium Wars in China and the expedition of Commodore Matthew Perry to Japarn resulted in
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an increase in Western trade and influence in Asia
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What was a direct result of World War 1?
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Germany lost its colonies in Africa and Asia.
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Communist countries DO or DO NOT manufacture consumer goods
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DO NOT!!!
Consumer goods are bought by consumers, in communism nobody buys things they feel like buying, the government controls what people buy.
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Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union emphasized centralized economic planning and five-year plans primarily to
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develop heavy industry
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The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were designed to
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promote economic and political stability in Europe
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One reason the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact was to
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limit the threat of invasion from Western Europe
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"The Soviet Union Splits into 15 Republics"
"Yugoslavia Experiences Internal Conflict"
"Germany Reunifies"
Which conclusion do these three headlines suggest?
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The forces of nationalism can either divide or unite a nation.
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Events in both eastern Europe in the early 1900s and in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s were mainly the result of
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challenges by ethnic groups desiring independence Feelings of nationalism and ethnocentrism can be compared between both time periods. During the early 1900s, Serbians, Bosnians, Austrians, and Hungarians sought to create independent nations. During the 1980s, republics of the Soviet Union sought similar autonomy.
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Which letter identifies the peninsula that was the site of the Vietnam conflict and the atrocities of Pol Pot?
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C
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Many African nations changed their names after gaining independence. The Gold Coast became Ghana, Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, and the Belgian Congo became Zaire. These changes most closely reflect the idea of
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nationalism
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A major source of disagreement between the United States and the Arab nations since 1948 has been the United States policy of
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supporting the nation of lsrael
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What is one factor that has affected economio development in southern African nations in the 21st century?
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spread of the AIDS epidemic
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed with the intent of
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controlling the supply oil to aise prices
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Since 1999, what has been the primary role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in world affairs
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carrying out crisis management and peace enforcement tasks
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The activities of Mother Teresa are most closely associated with
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the needs of the poor and health care
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In the 1980s, global concern for blacks in the Republic of South Africa led many nations to
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impose economic sanctions on South Africa
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