a. failed harvests and skyrocketing food prices

b. the decline of the Catholic Church

c. mismanaged financial crisis

d. inspiration from the American revoluntionary success

e. large national debt

1750-1820

a. the establisment of a major railway system

b. the digging of the Suez Canal

c. the invention of the telescope

d. the invention of the telegraph

e. increased availability of material goods.

a. The government should guarantee political and civil rights suchy as free speech, voting rights and religious tolerance.

b. The government should not interfere in peoples' personal affairs.

e. a and b (both)

a. greater political power

b. greater personal liberties

c. a fairer distritubion of wealth

d. a higher standard of living

e. all of the above

Who benefitted the most from the American, French and Industrial Revolutions?

a. World War I and World War II

b. The Great Depression

c. The development of the atomic bomb

d. The development of television and the computer

e. The threat of nuclear annihilation.

f. The Civil War

a.  All living things are constantly evolving.

b.  All living creatures are interrelated.

c.  We cannot alter our environment without worldwide repercussions.

d.  We cannot damage our environment without hurting ourselves.

e.  Homo sapiens have dominion over the glove and over lower forms of life.

f. Everything is in a continual stage of becoming.

g.  Cultural identities are viewed as journeys rather than destinations.

a.  The classless society was never really tired.

b.  The proletariat never had any voice in the "dictatorship of the proletariat."

c.  The dictatorial party's elite class controlled the masses through fear, censorship, the rewriting of history and the secret police.

d.  The environment was destroyed trying to reach production quotas.

e.  The Soviet economy was sickly.

f. The information age played a role in the public's knowledge of demonstrations, rebellion and repression.

g.  All of the above.

a.  Austria

b.  Czechoslovakia

c.  Poland

d.  The Rhineland

e.  Manchuria

a.  Germany had to accept all responsibility for causing World War I.

b.  Germany had to pay reparations to the allies for World War I.

c.  Germany lost virtually its entire armed services and overseas colonies.

d.  All of the above.

e.  A and B

a.  Mounting casualties and atrocities.

b.  The corruption of the South Vietnamese government.

c.  The inability of the American army to inflict a decisive defeat on a dedicated and ruthless enemy.

d.  Lack of a clear-cut rationale for an Asian war.

e.  All of the above.

a.  Catastrophic economic consequences.

b.  A ferocious blood bath that left 250,000 people dead.

c.  France's enemies assaulted the borders.

d.  Those who failed to support the revolution could be killed.

e.  Members of the loyal family and aristocracy became stronger and violently enforced their rule on the public.

a.  capitalism

b.  protestant work ethic

c.  establisment of the railroad

d.  colonialism

e.  international trade

a.  Maintained order and control with his army and secret police.

b.  Established a code of laws that got rid of the iniquities of the aristocracy and paved the way for the middle class.

c.  Conquered many parts of Europe and Africa.

d.  Destroyed lives on a staggering scale.

e.  Executed Prince Clemens von Metternich.

a.  The workers of Paris challenged the government.

b.  Troops and police refused to fire on rioters.

c.  The king abdicated the throne.

d.  Charles X was assassinated.

a.  The Philippines

b.  Indoensia

c.  Malaysia

d.  Vietnam

e.  South Korea

a.  Established the All-Russian Congress of Soviets.

b.  Used Social Darwinism as a justification for the invasion of numerous other countries.

c.  Had the secret police murder all of this political opponents.

d.  Established a dictatorship of the Communist pary.

a.  Romania

b.  Turkey

c.  Hungary

d.  Poland

e.  Bulgaria

a.  The anti-establishment free-speech revolt of the 1960's.

b.  Campus sit-ins and riots.

c.  Communes.

d.  Flower children and hippies.

e.  All of the above.

a.  The dominacne of the state and the subordination of the individual.

b.  The desireability of war.

c.  The Social Darwinian "right" of Italy to expand at the expense of "inferior" nations.

d.  All of the above.

e.  A and B.

a. Austria

b.  Prussia

c.  Russia

d.  France

e.  Spain

a.  Failed harvests and skyrocketing food prices.

b.  The decline of the Catholic Church.

c.  French money and troops have been offered to help Americans defeath the British causing national debt.

d.  The American Revolution inspired revolutionary fervor.

e.  Mismanaged financial crisis.

a.  It caused intense competition for new colonial markets that would absorb each European country's booming production of goods.

b.  In order to protect the markets they had, and to acquire new territories, countries had to equip themselves with large armies, navies and weaponry.

c.  There were relatively few new markets available to be conquered and many nations trying to conquer them.  This caused intense competition.

d.  All of the above.

a.  It led to civil war.

b.  Charles I was tried and executed for treason.

c.  The Interregnum began.

d.  All of the Above.

a.  The earth is not the center of the universe.

b.  People are creatures of nature like other animals.

c.  Man cannot prove his own existence.

d.  People's reason is affected by their passion and instinct.

a.  Thomas Hobbes

b.  Rene Descartes

c.  Francis Bacon

d.  Galileo Galilei

a.  He was judged a heretic and forced to recant.

b.  He was forced to live in exile in Denmark.

c.  He was forced to recant his views on the heliocentric theory.

d.  His book was condemned to a public burning and later prohibited.

e.  He was sentenced to a lifetime of house arrest.

a.  developed an improved telescope

b.  developed the compass and astrolabe

c.  devised two laws of motion

d.  proved the heliocentric theory

e.  invented the thermometer

a.  The sharing of knowledge for the benefit of all.

b.  A Pythagorean faith in the mathematical order of nature.

c.  The practice of abstracting and intuiting mathematical laws.

d.  Experimentation under rigidly controlled conditions.

a.  life

b.  liberty

c.  pursuit of happiness

d.  property

a.  The palace of Versailles was built.

b.  The nation was crippled by an archaic economic system with local customs barriers, tax farming and a nobility that paid no taxes at all.

c.  Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

d.  250,000 mostly middle class craftsmen and their families fled the country.

e.  France became the most powerful monarcy in Europe.

f.  A new Bill of Rights was enacted.

a.  God was responsible for adjusting the slight irregularities in the motions of the heavenly bodies.

b.  God was responsible for maintenance of an even flow of time and space.

c.  God was responsible for delivering "natural" punishment to the evil.

d.  A and B

e.  Non of the above.  God had no purpose.

a.  universal law of gravitation

b.  invention of calculus

c.  conducted important investigations into optics

d.  perfected the scientific method

e.  studied the properties of magnetism and sound vibration.

a.  National boundaries

b.  The establisment of overseas colonies

c.  Religion

d.  Constitutional rights

e.  a and b

a.  The improvement of the telescope

b.  The invention of calculus

c.  The discovery of the universal law of gravitation

d.  A bood was written proving the heliocentric theory.

e.  All of the above.