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Technology and the State in World History
Technology and the State in World History
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What don't Inventions and Innovations help do?
Speed up processes
Increase IQ
Improve safety
Make us more comfortable
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Technological innovations were more likely to be adopted in...
Weakly guilded societies
Societies with a strong guild system
3
Which of the following is not one of the Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century?
Electrification
Internet
Apple iPhone
Radio and Television
4
What were the Tanzimat Reforms
New edicts for a newly militarized society against Europe.
A series of taxes preventing corruption.
New laws that limited the power of European traders.
A new base of reforms for a new centralized state,
5
What caused the industrial revolution??
Never happened
Farming Advancements
Food Production
Not discovreed yet
6
What made major improvements during the Industrial Revolution?
Women's Rights
Factories
Transportation
Agriculture
7
What was the Green Revolution?
It used new tech. to increase agric. yields in dev. regions
it sought to limit the use of nuclear energy
it prevented oil exploration in endangered species' habitats
It restored tropical forests destroyed by slash-and-burn
8
How did the industrial Revolution encourage imperialism?
It created a need for land
It made westerners feel obligated to improve human species
It made Europeans feel sorry the their "little brothers"
It created a need for raw materials and markets
9
Time of Peace, Prosperity, Stability and Innovations in Science, Arts and Technology
Legalism
Silk Road
Darma
Golden Age
10
The majority of the slaves in the Islamic world were
mistresses kept in harems
able to return to their homes for special occasions
soldiers or house servants
converts to Islam
11
Examples of technological innovations (1200-1900 CE) include
paper, printing press and devshirme
assembly line, crop rotation and lateen sails
gunpowder, firearms, cows
silk, silver, and tobacco
12
The High Speed Rail offers an ____ for commuters who dislike the cramped cargo of the train and bus.
turmeric
sanitation
transparency
alternative
13
She oversaw China's Self Strengthening Movement and the Boxer Rebellion.
Bixi
Dixi
Fixi
Cixi
14
Which of the following are NOT innovations of ship designs in the early 16th century?
Carrack
Steam Ships
Fluyt
Caravel
15
What was the effect of the Three field system?
They all get food equally
Cinnamon buns
Farmers produces more food and villagers had more to eat
Food is great
16
Why is the Enlightenment considered a turning point in world history?
Martin Luther broke away from the Roman Catholic Church
Europeans changed their thinking about therole of government
The Columbian exchange occurred.
The factory system was used to mass-produce goods.
17
What is the primary purpose of Silk Roads in World History?
Provided unity for people of different cultures to collide
Created many forms of trade like the Colombian exchange etc.
An era of many break throughs of new technologies
Was a new form of trade that transported silk across the sea
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When the people of a nation show pride in their shared history and loyalty to their nation
Sovereignty
Nationalism
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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 first widespread epidemic diseases started.
The Eastern and Western hemispheres traded on a large scale.
The first Native American empires arose.
20
Quinine, the Maxim Gun, steam ships, and telegraphs all...
were breakthroughs shared with Asian and African societies
were obsolete by the outbreak of World War I
enabled greater cooperation among the European states
enabled Europeans to exploit foreign peoples and resources
21
Who was the reigning caliph during the start of the Islamic Golden Age?
Omar al-Farouk
Bashar al-Assad
Jafar Madabi
Harum al-Rashid
22
What 20th century discovery was made by Crick & Watson?
Structure of DNA
Viruses
ABO blood groups
Antibiotics
23
Which of the following is true about the spread of Chinese innovations?
Gunpowder from China influenced the “gunpowder revolution” in Europe
Europe did not adopt printing
Porcelain was not demanded by other neighboring countries
Compass from China rarely helped the Afro-Eurasian trading world
24
The Industrial Revolution led to
stage 3 of the demographic transition
the increase of cottage industries
a decrease in labor unions
a decrease in non-point source pollution
25
Why are cities important in World History
They are not important
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
26
The innvention pictured below changed the world in every way EXCEPT
It led to the formation of standardized time zones
It led to the emergence and grwoth of a market economy
It led to the quicker diffusion of people, ideas and goods
It led to drastically higher mortality rates
27
The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution contributed AOTF innovations to Europe EXCEPT
movable type
heliocentrism
Diderot's Encyclopedia
the concept of the Social Contract
28
Lateen Sail from here
D
A
B
C
29
Which of the following environmental innovations was UNIQUE to the challenges of sailing in the
Indian Ocean
?
Learning about magnetic poles & latitude to create the astrolabe & compass
An understanding of seasonal monsoon wind patterns
Creating ways that lateen sails could move with square sails.
Applying paper technology to maritime maps
30
Which achievements are most closely associated with the Golden Age of Islamic culture?
columns, pillars, and democracy
mosques, medical books, algebra
gunpowder, pagodas, and silk
aqueducts, roads, and polytheism
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what was the scientific revolution?
People didn't want to go to church on Sunday.
movement where people thought about things in a logical way
branched off enlightenment, as another movement.
mixture of logical realization about scientific discoveries
32
What was the dhow ship significantly known for?
Becoming a permanent home for children
Sailing quickly across shallow waters
Carrying an average of 200 tons of products a time
The use of the lateen sail to go along strong winds
33
Efforts at industrialization in Russia and Japan were similar in that
Both countries adopted Western practices
Both countries developed more centralized governments
Both began in the late 19th century
Both depended on the textile industry
34
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
The environments in the Americas were not suitable
There was a lack of large animals that could be domesticated
Settled societies in the Americas lack military prowess
35
Innovations spread from the place they originated, called…
Heads
Space
Hearths
Origins
36
What was the Scientific Revolution?
A time where science became more popular
A time where more research was being done on science
the Scientific Revolution never happened
37
What was the maxim gun?
The first airplane
The first tank
The first bayonet
The first machine gun
38
What was the role of Swahili civilization in the world of Indian Ocean commerce?
Swahili cities adopted Buddhism from Ocean traders
Connected interior Africa with Indian Ocean Trade Network
Swahili is fun to say
B-b-b-b-b-bantu!!!
39
What goods do container ships usually carry?
Furniture
Vechicles
Foods
All of the above
40
Insulin is a drug discovered in 20th century to treat:
infection
diabetes
pneumonia
smallpox
41
What’s the difference between innovations and inventions??
Invention=An improvement Inovation=A creation
Invention= a creation innovation= an improvement on creation
Invention= a philosophy Innovation= a book
Invention=a teacher Innovation=a lion that ate my girlfriend
42
By 1830 revolutions in the Atlantic world resulted in which of the following changes?
The emancipation of slaves everywhere in the Atlantic world
The creation of a politically unified South America
Political and econ domination of the W Hemisphere by the US
The political independence of colonies in both N & S America
43
What was the maxim gun?
The first tank
The first airplane
The first machine gun
The first bayonet
44
What contributed to the growth of cities in the Islamic world?
All of the Above
Paper manufacturing
Industrial production
Increased agric. production
45
What century did vaccines become mainstream on a global scale?
20th century
19th century
21st century
17th century
46
Which of the following is NOT true about technological innovations helping societies grow and prosper?
Improvements in sails for transportation along the Sea Roads
Saddles for transportation along the Silk Roads
Telescope for astronomical discoveries
Printing of paper for money and taxes in China
47
What disease does quinine treat?
Leukaemia
Measles
Malaria
Cancer
48
What is the digital divide?
Everyone has internet access except old people
Some people have access to the internet and others do not
8/2=4
Only people with iPhones have access to the internet
49
Which mathematic accomplishment came from the Islamic Golden Age?
Newtonian Physics
Geometry
Algebra
Addition
50
Atomic bombs
Soviet Union
Germany
Italy
Japan
51
What was another technology the explorers from the old world used to get to the new world ?
Snapchat
Compass
Computers
Binoculars
52
The Chinampas were examples of
mesoamerican art forms
slash and burn farming techniques
colonial economic policies
ability of civilization to adapt to their physical geography
53
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 sharecropper or tenant farmer asscociated
increasingly capitalist with wages paid for in work
54
What are some innovations that encouraged trade on the Silk Road?
Caravanserai
Paper money
Bills of exchange
All of the above
55
What were some Chinese practices/products adapted by Europeans?
Textiles & Fireworks
Painting, Writing, & Silver
Gunpowder, Paper making, & Printing
Salt, Spices, & Pottery
56
Why did the industrial revolution start?
population caused demand in goods meaning factories gotbuilt
the lost of farms and crops
people were fed up by jobs not being available
the availability of food and living supplies
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The House of Wisdom was pivotal in advancing innovations and scientific thinking becuase
It preserved the original versions of the Quran and the Hadith
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
