Ap Exam 3Rd Quarter

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The most prosperous country in Europe in the 17th century was…

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Netherlands

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Why is Vasco Da Gama’s voyage in 1499 significant in a global context?

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it opened direct maritime trading between europe and asia

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What was a key difference between the Portuguese approach to trading –post empires and the approach taken by the Dutch and the English?

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portugal wanted military control and the dutch and british wanted trading posts

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What common goal(s) did the Dutch and the Spanish have in southeast Asia?

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Dominate trade in region

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Why is the Seven Years’ War significant in this era, 1500-1800?

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Put Britain in position to trade

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Which New World crops added the most calories to European diets and therefore positively impacted sustainable population numbers?

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Potatoes and maize

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. What problems did Martin Luther have with the Roman Catholic Church?

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Pluralism (Different interpretation of the Bible), Absentism, and sale of indulgences

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Why did Charles V fail to build a centralized, sovereign state in the Holy Roman Empire?

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getting pressure from French and Ottoman empire

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What were the components of Peter the Great’s policy of westernization?

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shave beards, modern army send Russians to Europe for education and reform bureaucracy

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When Martin Luther objected to the Catholic church, what was his original issue?

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sale of indulgences

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To what purpose was the Council of Trent convened?

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council had to respond celibacy priest, education of priest, sale of indulgences

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Why was Charles V ultimately unable to strengthen the Holy Roman Empire?

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too many religious and political problems

Front 13

What is the best explanation for Isaac Newton’s importance to the scientific revolution?

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provided explanation of organization of universe

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In the English colonies a higher percentage of women settlers ensured that the migrants mainly married among themselves. This situation is similar to what Spanish or Portuguese colonial area?

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Peru

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The first plentiful labor force for North America was…

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indentured servants

Front 16

What methods of resistance to Spanish rule were employed by the native populations of the Americas?

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rebellion, half hearted work, hiding in mountains and forests

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Why were Cortes and Pizarro able to defeat the Aztecs and the Incas?

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diseases and technology

Front 18

The production of what cash crop dramatically increased the Portuguese interest in Brazil after 1550?

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sugar

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Why did the Iberian colonies in South America emerge as more ethnically diverse than the French and English colonies of North America?

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fewer Iberian women that migrated

Front 20

What do the encomienda, mita, and debt peonage have in common?

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economic systems of labor

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Why did Christian missionaries have greater success at conversion of indigenous peoples of Mexico and Peru, than in the North American colonies?

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people concentrated settled communities

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What is the connection between the reconquista and the encomienda system?

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encomienda developed elsewhere, then was transferred to america

Front 23

Throughout the entire period of trans-Atlantic slavery, the mortality rate for the middle passage was…

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25%

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By 1800, the population of sub-Saharan Africa stood at

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45 million

Front 25

As part of the triangular slave trade, the Europeans usually picked up slaves in Africa in exchange for…

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firearms

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What was the key to the domination of Songhay’s rulers such as Sunni Ali?

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professional militaries

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Why did the Portuguese slave trade move down the coast to Angola?

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wanted more profitable trade area

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How do historians account for the fact that despite the pressures of the Atlantic slave trade, west Africa’s population continued to grow?

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manioc brought greater nourishment

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What happened to African culture in the western hemisphere?

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blended into european

Front 30

What was the most significant reason for the decline in slavery as a labor system?

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slave revolts

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In comparison with slave labor in earlier Greek and Roman societies, what was the primary difference in African slave labor systems?

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slave no private property slave ownership highest in economic power

Front 32

In The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, Matteo Ricci argued that _?_

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doctrines of jesus were similar to those of confucius

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The term “native learning” refers to _?_

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growing Japanese tradition instead of western ways

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China fell behind technologically during the Ming and Qing dynasties because _?_

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government wanted political and social stability or progess

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The process known as “thinning out the rice shoots” refers to _?_

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infanticide

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Which group is most responsible for bringing social change to China during the Qing era and to Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate?

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merchant class

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The use of mandarins who traveled throughout China overseeing the implementation of Ming imperial dictates is most comparable to which European imperial institution?

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sharlemanes rici doctrine

Front 38

In which area of governance did the influence of the Mongols on the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires prove to be the most problematic?

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getting successor to throne

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Despite the interdiction against public roles for women in the Islamic empires, the mocking “rule of women” was used to describe what phenomenon?

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confer with female mentors

Front 40

What factor produced large population increases in Mughal India but was missing in the other empires?

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intensive farming of traditional crops

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What was the most important factor in making the world trade network less influential in the Mughal empire?

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huge manufacturing capacity

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To what can one attribute the vast expansion and continued control of Ottoman territories into southern Europe and northern Africa?

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military power

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What role did religious tolerance play in the Mughal empire?

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early rulers not interested in conversion, later rulers were

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When comparing the domain of the Mughals with that of earlier states controlled by Muslim conquerors, what was the largest difference?

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huge armies little success in conquering Africa

Front 45

A political conservative in the 19th century would be likely to advocate…

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censorship, restoration, voting, government supporting union

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The last country to abolish slavery was

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Brazil

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What is cultural nationalism?

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Appreciation for the historical experiences of the national community and foster pride in its cultural accomplishments

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In which place(s) was slavery ended with revolution rather than by government decree?

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Haiti

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Which multinational empire provided the greatest impediment to Italian and German unification?

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holy roman empire

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What did victory in the Seven Years’ War ensure?

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Britain domination and global trade

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The advent of steam power enabled increased production and efficiency but in which business was steam power the slowest to develop?

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ocean shipping

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How did other European and American entrepreneurs gain the knowledge to mechanize?

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spying espionage

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According to Marx and Engels, the final end to a class revolution would result in _?_

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eliminate need for government

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Which component of the age of proto-industrialization became a key asset for industrialization?

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cotton became cash crop

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What effect did industrialization have on gender roles?

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- men, women were found different roles in separate areas
- Men were expected to work in the factories, while were to devote themselves to traditional pursuits such as the raising of children, the management of the home and the preservation of traditional family values

Front 56

In Latin America, the road to a stable state was hindered by…

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sharp division among classes

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What event shifted the population ratio in Canada from predominately French to predominately British-speaking residents?

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american revolutionary war

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What was the universal goal of the Latin American reform movements of the 19th century?

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land distribution reform

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In which industry were Asian migrants to Latin America in the mid-19th century most likely to work?

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agriculture

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What was the role of the military in the gradual decline of the Ottoman empire?

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controlled government resisted modernization

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What weakness in Chinese government allowed Europeans to carve out spheres of influence?

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There were no officials willing to resist the demands of the Europeans.

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What is the best example of the extreme extent of the Qing reaction to the domination of foreigners?

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the boxer rebellion

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What key decision did the Meiji government make that changed the longstanding social order in Japan?

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outlawed samurai

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Why was Cecil Rhodes so interested in controlling Cape Colony?

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establish base of operations to extend control from south to north

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The Suez Canal was constructed to reduce travel time between what two locations?

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britain took control of india

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What was the ultimate outcome of the Sepoy Rebellion?

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british and russian people wanted control of central asia

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The term “Great Game” is applied to…

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asia

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African colonies where European personnel collected taxes, maintained order, and organized labor and military recruitment were run under which system?

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direct rule

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Scientific racism drew on whose works to support its premise that Europeans were intellectually, culturally, and morally superior to all other peoples?

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Darwin

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Why was the Indian National Congress originally formed?

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educated indians wanted to communicate ideas

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What did both Cecil Rhodes and Otto von Bismarck believe about industrialization and workers?

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expansion; more workers and helped industrialist

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What modern technologies (contributed) the most to changes in war strategy that endured throughout the war?

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machine guns and barbed wire

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In which region of the globe did the war have the most lasting effect?

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east asia

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What ideological underpinnings of the Paris peace treaties most affected the colonies?

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south determination choose government

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What factor most contributed to the failure of the League of Nations to act as an international force?

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no power to enforce

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What elements of early modern European society played the greatest part in triggering the Great War?

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state rivalries

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“Sir, many of our people, keenly desirous of the wares and things of your Kingdoms, which are brought here by your people, and in order to satisfy their voracious appetite, seize many of our people, freed and exempt men, and they kidnap even nobles, and the sons of nobles, and our relatives, and take them to be sold to the Whites who are in our Kingdoms.” This quotation comes from a 1526 letter to a European monarch from a king located…

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congo

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Between 1500 and 1800, why were Europeans primarily interested in tropical colonies in the Atlantic and Indians Oceans and in the Caribbean?

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profit from sugar, coffee and pepper

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Why was Japan more successful than China in resisting imperialist encroachments in the 19th century?

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willingness of nobles to sponsor reform

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What policy led to radicalization in both the French Revolution after 1789 and the Russian Revolution after 1917?

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peasants gained power

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What is extraterritoriality?

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exempting foreigners from the laws of the country/ colony that they are visiting

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What did anticolonial movements such as the Congress Party in India and the Young Turks agree onWhat is the best description of relations between European states and the Ottoman Empire in the period 1815 to 1914?

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reform in order to resist europeans

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Between 1600 and 1800, what was common about the policies of China, Korean, and Japan with regard to contact with foreigners?

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Reformed their government in compliance with western style government systems

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What is the best characterization of world trade in the period 1450 -1750?

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Countries wanted to re-establish trade routes after the bubonic plague, numerous inventions helped increase trade around the world

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In 19th century liberal democratic theory, a woman’s role was generally portrayed as _?_

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Housewife

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Slavery and serfdom were abolished in the 1860s in _?_ and _?_

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Russia and US

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Rebellious ethnic minorities in the Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian Empires during the late 19th century were motivated primarily by ____ism.

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Nationalism

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What did the policies of the Meiji reformers bring about in Japan?

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A constitutional government, modern communication, transportation system, education system, and a new tax system

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According to most world historians, what was the key to European predominance in the world economy during the 19th and early 20th century?

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Dominance of African and Asian territories

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The United States Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen reflect a shared concern for _?_

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Equal rights

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In the late 19th century, European imperialism in BOTH Africa and China was characterized by _?_

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Trade and colonization

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What was the overall effect of skin color, ethnicity, and former slave status in Latin America in the late 19th century? By 1914, what was true of BOTH Russian and Japanese economies?

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Discrimination, the belief in inferiority, and weakened economy