WHAP Final Exam Study Guide

  1. By what date had the Arabs been virtually excluded from European trade?
  2. What Chinese dynasty succeeded the Mongol Yuan dynasty in China?
  3. What admiral commanded Chinaʹs great overseas expeditions between 1405 and 1433?
  4. Strong regional monarchies took hold in the decades around 1400 in
  5. Along with Italy, a key center for change in the 14th and 15th centuries was
  6. Which of the following represents a significant difference between New Zealand and Hawaii?
  7. How was the global trade network of the 15th century different from that of previous eras?
  8. The initiative for Western exploration and conquest came from the kingdom of
  9. What region in the Americas was claimed by Portugal?
  10. What was the impact of the introduction of American crops into Europe
  11. Despite Japanʹs official policy of isolation, the Dutch were able to gain access to this port
  12. The most important Dutch colony in Africa was located on
  13. Which regions were dependents to the core zone of the global trade network?
  14. Which of the following accounts in part for the decline of the Italian Renaissance circa 1500?
  15. Johannes Gutenberg was responsible for
  16. What was the European-style family pattern that emerged in the 15th century?
  17. Who is generally credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation in 1517?
  18. What was the church established by Henry VIII in England?
  19. John Harvey was responsible for what discovery during the Scientific Revolution
  20. Adam Smithʹs economic theory advocated
  21. Inflation and commercialization in the West produced a group of people without access to producing property called the
  22. what Russian ruler was a large part of Russia freed from Mongol control in the 15th century
  23. What was one of the primary differences between the social organization of the West and Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries?
  24. The most important Spanish settlement in the Caribbean during the 16th century was
  25. The grants of Indians to individual Spaniards as a labor system were called
  26. What was the impact of the 18th-century reforms on slavery in Brazil?
  27. Who was the leader of the Indian revolution in Peru in 1781?
  28. What was the average profitability of the English slave trade in the late 18th century?
  29. How did the Dutch commercial strategy within the Asian trade network differ from that of the Portuguese?
  30. Which of the following accounts in part for the decline of the Italian Renaissance circa 1500?
  31. What Jesuit missionary was responsible for creating the strategy of converting Hindu elites
  32. Following the invasions of Timur, the Ottoman Empire was restored under
  33. The first Mughal emperor successfully defeated the Muslim ruler of the Lodi dynasty in 1526 at the battle of
  34. The first Ming emperor of China
  35. Why did the earliest of the Japanese military centralizers accept Christian missionaries
  36. Protoindustrialization refers to
  37. In 1820, Greece fought for its independence from
  38. British settlers in New Zealand encountered and eventually defeated which native group?
  39. In 1902 which of the following United States possessions was granted independence?
  40. What prevented Muhammad Ali from overthrowing the Ottoman Empire?
  41. The Duma was
  42. What was the primary difference between the reformed Japanese government and reformed Russian institutions by 1914?
  43. The 1920s and 1930s are often known as the
  44. In what nation did the first Fascist regime take power?
  45. United Nations differed from the League of Nations
  46. Before WWII, Germany and Italy practiced with their weaponry and tactics in
  47. The Soviet-led counterpart to NATO was
  48. The European Union was, in its early years, primarily focused on
  49. Immigration into Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in this late 20th century came primarily from
  50. Gamal Abdul Nasser

·  Write on one of these topics

·  Compare Soviet and Western responses during the cold war

·  Summarize the extent of Westernization under Peter the Great.

·  Compare Japanese and Russian and Latin American independence from the West

·  Compare the strategies and tactics of World War I to World War II.