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World History Final Exam 2013

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1. Both Christians & Muslims share what belief in God
One god omnipotent
2. Buddhist religious statues found in China are examples of what?
Cultural Diffusion
3. The Code of Hammurabi illustrates the laws of Babylonian society were influenced by lex talionis and what?
Social Class structure – social inequalities
4. What of the following contributed to the fall of both the western Roman and the Han?
Invasion by barbarian & borderland tribes (Huns, Visigoths, Vandals)
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6. Describe the major effects of the Bantu migrations?
Diffusion of iron metallurgy across Sub Africa, & Bantus language & slash & burn agriculture
7. Inca and Aztec societies were similar politically how
Both expanded empires using the military
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to 600 C.E. and the development of transatlantic trade routes in the period 1450 C.E. to 1600 C.E. were similar in that both depended on what
Wind patterns (Atlantic Ocean’s wind wheel and Indian Ocean’s monsoon winds), ocean currents
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35. Before 600 C.E., large centralized empires, such as the Han, Persian, and Roman empires, extended their military power by doing what?
Built infrastructure – roads, bridges, defensive walls, expanded supply lines on safe roads
36. What factors represent the most significant cause of the growth of cities in Afro-Eurasia in the period 1000–1450 ?
Increased interregional & long distance trade
37. What type of evidence for research about the profits of Portuguese and British slave traders in the period 1600–1800 would be most useful?
Slave traders receipts or account books of sales
38. The North and South American independence movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries shared what in common?
Revolutions and demands based on enlightenment ideas
39. The founding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is best understood in the context of what post-world war 2 events?
Cold War
40. Historians argue that the twentieth century marks a significant break in world history for what reasons?
Petroleum, gas, population tripled, communism
41. What is true of both the Mughal and Ottoman empires in the sixteenth century?
Big empires,

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