5 Written Questions

1. Military commander of the American Revolution. He was the first elected president of the United States (1789-1799). (p. 581)
2. The most important military leader in the struggle for independence in South America. Born in Venezuela, he led military forces there and in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. (p. 623)
3. Nineteenth-century idea in Western societies that men and women, especially of the middle class, should have different roles in society: women as wives, mothers, and homemakers; men as breadwinners and participants in business and politics (711)
4. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258. (p. 234)
5. Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. (p. 438)

5 Matching Questions

1. high culture
2. Alexandria
3. Indian Ocean Maritime System
4. Legitimate Trade
5. pax romana

1. a In premodern times, a network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia. (p. 207)
2. b Roman peace,' The stability and prosperity that Roman rule brought to the lands of the Roman Empire in the first two centuries C.E. The movement of people and trade goods along Roman roads and safe seas allowed for the spread of cuture/ideas (154)
3. c City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. It became the capital of the Hellenistic kingdom of the Ptolemies. It contained the famous Library and the Museum-a center for leading scientific and literary figures. (138)
4. d Exports from Africa in the nineteenth century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade. (p. 654)
5. e Canons of artistic and literary masterworks recognized by dominant economic classes. (p. 897)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Term applied to a group of developing countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War. (p. 846)
   1. Aden
   2. Third World
   3. Alexandria
   4. Arawak
2. Recurrent swings from economic hard times to recovery and growth, then back to hard times and a repetition of the sequence. (p. 615)
   1. Blaise Diagne
   2. business cycle
   3. Qing Empire
   4. yin/yang
3. An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier, more limited, agreements. Replaced by the European Union (EU) in 1993. (p. 834)
   1. popular culture
   2. Phoenicians
   3. Tupac Amaru II
   4. European Community
4. A 'secondary' or 'peripheral' khan based in Persia. The Il-khans' khanate was founded by H?leg?, a grandson of Genghis Khan, was based at Tabriz in modern Azerbaijan. It controlled much of Iran and Iraq. (p. 333)
   1. Serbia
   2. Il-Khan
   3. Sikhism
   4. dhow
5. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675, Sikh warriors mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule. (p. 538)
   1. Siberia
   2. Semitic
   3. Sikhism
   4. terrorism

5 True/False Questions

1. three-field system → A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain, one grows legumes, and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe. (p. 396)

   True        False

2. Bantu → Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. (p. 219)

   True        False

3. economic sanctions → Boycotts, embargoes, and other economic measures that one country uses to pressure another country into changing its policies. (p. 889)

   True        False

4. Balfour Declaration → Literally 'those who serve,' the hereditary military elite of the Tokugawa Shogunate. (p. 563)

   True        False

5. Thomas Edison → American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. (p. 703)

   True        False