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1. Babur led his Mughal army to conquer India chiefly in order to
2. The Weaver of Designs: “She concerns herself with using thread, works with thread. The good weaver of designs is skilled—a maker of varicolored capes, an outliner of designs, a blender of colors, a joiner of pieces, a matcher of pieces, a person of good memory. She does things dexterously. She weaves designs. She selects. She weaves tightly. She forms borders. She forms the neck …” Source: Bernadino de Sahagun, La Historia Universal de las Cosas de Nueva España. The above sixteenth-century quote from Spaniard Bernardino de Sahagún refers to a woman from which civilization?
3. The image above reflects
4. How were immigration patterns of the nineteenth century to Hawaii similar to those to Latin America in the seventeenth century?
5. Latin American wars of independence in the early nineteenth century had which of the following results?
6. The two major religions practiced in Classical India were
7. Which of the following was NOT a major effect of movement along the Silk Road?
8. Great Britain’s first Industrial Revolution was fueled primarily by
9. All of the following countries experienced social unrest and student protest movements in the 1960s similar to those in the United States EXCEPT
10. From 1600 to 1700, sugar was
11. The map above shows which seventh century empire’s expansion?
12. Japan’s industrialization process was initially limited by which of the following?
13. All of the following ancient civilizations developed near river valleys EXCEPT
14. Which of the following is an important contribution of the Lydians?
15. The image above, of the Alhambra in Andalusia, Spain, shows the influence of which widespread religion?
16. Which of the following statements about the Songhai in the sixteenth century is accurate?
17. The building shown above is an example of
18. Industrialization and rural exodus in Latin America in the twentieth century drove the trend of
19. Which of the following was NOT characteristic of early civilizations?
20. “Concerned that in situations of poverty women have the least access to food, health, education, training and opportunities for employment and other needs … Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women … The same conditions for career and vocational guidance, for access to studies and for the achievement of diplomas in educational establishments of all categories in rural as well as in urban areas; this equality shall be ensured in pre-school, general, technical, professional and higher technical education, as well as in all types of vocational training.… The elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels and in all forms of education by encouraging coeducation and other types of education which will help to achieve this aim and, in particular, by the revision of textbooks and school programmes and the adaptation of teaching methods …” Which of the following most likely produced the twentieth-century document quoted above?
21. Careful, careful where are you going: You group of know-nothings! Come here and let your older sister teach you to write poems. Young bees whose stingers itch rub them in wilted flowers. Young goats who have nothing to do with their horns butt them against sparse shrubbery. The eighteenth-century poem above was written by a woman of which region?
22. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of trade along the overland route between the Roman Empire and India through the first two centuries C.E.? Roman Empire India
23. Which of the following correctly lists three leaders who rose in opposition to colonial rule of their home countries?
24. How was the process of industrialization similar in Russia and Japan?
25. In late-twentieth century sub-Saharan Africa, political stability often failed in part because