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Technology and the State in World History
Technology and the State in World History
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Why are cities important in World History
They serve as centers of culture, trade & political admin.
Surplus grains are grown in cities
For most of human history, most people live in cities
They are not important
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The innvention pictured below changed the world in every way EXCEPT
It led to the quicker diffusion of people, ideas and goods
It led to the emergence and grwoth of a market economy
It led to drastically higher mortality rates
It led to the formation of standardized time zones
3
How did the industrial Revolution encourage imperialism?
It made Europeans feel sorry the their "little brothers"
It made westerners feel obligated to improve human species
It created a need for land
It created a need for raw materials and markets
4
Insulin is a drug discovered in 20th century to treat:
smallpox
diabetes
infection
pneumonia
5
What was the maxim gun?
The first airplane
The first bayonet
The first tank
The first machine gun
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Which of the following is NOT true about technological innovations helping societies grow and prosper?
Telescope for astronomical discoveries
Saddles for transportation along the Silk Roads
Improvements in sails for transportation along the Sea Roads
Printing of paper for money and taxes in China
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Why is the Enlightenment considered a turning point in world history?
Martin Luther broke away from the Roman Catholic Church
The factory system was used to mass-produce goods.
Europeans changed their thinking about therole of government
The Columbian exchange occurred.
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What was the Green Revolution?
It used new tech. to increase agric. yields in dev. regions
it prevented oil exploration in endangered species' habitats
It restored tropical forests destroyed by slash-and-burn
it sought to limit the use of nuclear energy
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What was the dhow ship significantly known for?
Becoming a permanent home for children
The use of the lateen sail to go along strong winds
Carrying an average of 200 tons of products a time
Sailing quickly across shallow waters
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The Chinampas were examples of
slash and burn farming techniques
ability of civilization to adapt to their physical geography
colonial economic policies
mesoamerican art forms
11
The majority of the slaves in the Islamic world were
mistresses kept in harems
converts to Islam
able to return to their homes for special occasions
soldiers or house servants
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Lateen Sail from here
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A
C
B
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By 1830 revolutions in the Atlantic world resulted in which of the following changes?
The creation of a politically unified South America
The political independence of colonies in both N & S America
The emancipation of slaves everywhere in the Atlantic world
Political and econ domination of the W Hemisphere by the US
14
The High Speed Rail offers an ____ for commuters who dislike the cramped cargo of the train and bus.
turmeric
transparency
sanitation
alternative
15
What was the role of Swahili civilization in the world of Indian Ocean commerce?
Swahili is fun to say
Swahili cities adopted Buddhism from Ocean traders
Connected interior Africa with Indian Ocean Trade Network
B-b-b-b-b-bantu!!!
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Innovations spread from the place they originated, called…
Origins
Heads
Space
Hearths
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The Industrial Revolution led to
the increase of cottage industries
stage 3 of the demographic transition
a decrease in non-point source pollution
a decrease in labor unions
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Examples of technological innovations (1200-1900 CE) include
silk, silver, and tobacco
gunpowder, firearms, cows
assembly line, crop rotation and lateen sails
paper, printing press and devshirme
19
Efforts at industrialization in Russia and Japan were similar in that
Both countries developed more centralized governments
Both depended on the textile industry
Both countries adopted Western practices
Both began in the late 19th century
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Which of the following environmental innovations was UNIQUE to the challenges of sailing in the
Indian Ocean
?
Creating ways that lateen sails could move with square sails.
Learning about magnetic poles & latitude to create the astrolabe & compass
Applying paper technology to maritime maps
An understanding of seasonal monsoon wind patterns
21
When the people of a nation show pride in their shared history and loyalty to their nation
Nationalism
Sovereignty
22
Which achievements are most closely associated with the Golden Age of Islamic culture?
gunpowder, pagodas, and silk
mosques, medical books, algebra
columns, pillars, and democracy
aqueducts, roads, and polytheism
23
What is the primary purpose of Silk Roads in World History?
An era of many break throughs of new technologies
Provided unity for people of different cultures to collide
Was a new form of trade that transported silk across the sea
Created many forms of trade like the Colombian exchange etc.
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What was the maxim gun?
The first tank
The first machine gun
The first bayonet
The first airplane
25
What made major improvements during the Industrial Revolution?
Women's Rights
Transportation
Agriculture
Factories
26
What century did vaccines become mainstream on a global scale?
21st century
19th century
20th century
17th century
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Which of the following is not one of the Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century?
Internet
Apple iPhone
Radio and Television
Electrification
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The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution contributed AOTF innovations to Europe EXCEPT
Diderot's Encyclopedia
movable type
the concept of the Social Contract
heliocentrism
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She oversaw China's Self Strengthening Movement and the Boxer Rebellion.
Bixi
Dixi
Fixi
Cixi
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Who was the reigning caliph during the start of the Islamic Golden Age?
Bashar al-Assad
Harum al-Rashid
Jafar Madabi
Omar al-Farouk
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What was the Scientific Revolution?
A time where more research was being done on science
A time where science became more popular
the Scientific Revolution never happened
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What were the Tanzimat Reforms
A new base of reforms for a new centralized state,
A series of taxes preventing corruption.
New edicts for a newly militarized society against Europe.
New laws that limited the power of European traders.
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What are some innovations that encouraged trade on the Silk Road?
Paper money
Caravanserai
All of the above
Bills of exchange
34
What goods do container ships usually carry?
Foods
All of the above
Vechicles
Furniture
35
What contributed to the growth of cities in the Islamic world?
Industrial production
All of the Above
Increased agric. production
Paper manufacturing
36
Why did the industrial revolution start?
the availability of food and living supplies
people were fed up by jobs not being available
the lost of farms and crops
population caused demand in goods meaning factories gotbuilt
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What 20th century discovery was made by Crick & Watson?
Structure of DNA
Antibiotics
ABO blood groups
Viruses
38
Quinine, the Maxim Gun, steam ships, and telegraphs all...
enabled Europeans to exploit foreign peoples and resources
enabled greater cooperation among the European states
were obsolete by the outbreak of World War I
were breakthroughs shared with Asian and African societies
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What was another technology the explorers from the old world used to get to the new world ?
Computers
Compass
Binoculars
Snapchat
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Which of the following are NOT innovations of ship designs in the early 16th century?
Carrack
Caravel
Steam Ships
Fluyt
41
What was the effect of the Three field system?
Cinnamon buns
Food is great
Farmers produces more food and villagers had more to eat
They all get food equally
42
Why did pastoral societies emerge only in the Afro-Eurasian world and not in the Americas?
There were no agricultural societies with which to trade
Settled societies in the Americas lack military prowess
The environments in the Americas were not suitable
There was a lack of large animals that could be domesticated
43
What were some Chinese practices/products adapted by Europeans?
Salt, Spices, & Pottery
Textiles & Fireworks
Gunpowder, Paper making, & Printing
Painting, Writing, & Silver
44
Which mathematic accomplishment came from the Islamic Golden Age?
Addition
Newtonian Physics
Algebra
Geometry
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Technological innovations were more likely to be adopted in...
Societies with a strong guild system
Weakly guilded societies
46
What disease does quinine treat?
Cancer
Malaria
Leukaemia
Measles
47
The biggest change in world labor systems during the period 1450-1750 was
the use of local slave labor
the use of non-indigenous slaves
increasingly capitalist with wages paid for in work
increasingly sharecropper or tenant farmer asscociated
48
The House of Wisdom was pivotal in advancing innovations and scientific thinking becuase
Scholars translated works from Greek to Persian and Arabic
Had no future impact on the European Renaissance and Scientific Revolution
It preserved the lost works of the Library of Alexandria
It preserved the original versions of the Quran and the Hadith
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What caused the industrial revolution??
Farming Advancements
Never happened
Not discovreed yet
Food Production
50
What is the digital divide?
Everyone has internet access except old people
Only people with iPhones have access to the internet
Some people have access to the internet and others do not
8/2=4
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Why are the late 1400s considered to be a "turning point" in world history?
There were new religious movements for the first time.
The Eastern and Western hemispheres traded on a large scale.
The first widespread epidemic diseases started.
The first Native American empires arose.
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Which of the following is true about the spread of Chinese innovations?
Europe did not adopt printing
Porcelain was not demanded by other neighboring countries
Gunpowder from China influenced the “gunpowder revolution” in Europe
Compass from China rarely helped the Afro-Eurasian trading world
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what was the scientific revolution?
People didn't want to go to church on Sunday.
mixture of logical realization about scientific discoveries
branched off enlightenment, as another movement.
movement where people thought about things in a logical way
54
What’s the difference between innovations and inventions??
Invention=a teacher Innovation=a lion that ate my girlfriend
Invention= a philosophy Innovation= a book
Invention= a creation innovation= an improvement on creation
Invention=An improvement Inovation=A creation
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What don't Inventions and Innovations help do?
Make us more comfortable
Improve safety
Increase IQ
Speed up processes
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Time of Peace, Prosperity, Stability and Innovations in Science, Arts and Technology
Legalism
Silk Road
Golden Age
Darma
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Atomic bombs
Soviet Union
Italy
Germany
Japan
