9.3.

Open Ended

What major epidemic in Europe caused citizens to challenge the authority of the absolute monarchs and seek to gain some of the freedoms and rights that existed under the systems of the Greeks and Romans (democracy and republic)?

Multiple Choice

Benito Mussolini, former prime minister of Italy, founded the movement known as fascism. One of the primary elements of fascism is

• being a communist and wanting the government to take care of you

• believing in a spiritual power that controls the universe

• believing your country or ethnicity is better than everyone else

• being strongly opposed to war or any form of violence

Open Ended

A couple of reasons that the Norse Model of socialism works well in Norway is because the smaller population and that the population is very homogeneous (the citizens are almost all Caucasian, descendants of Vikings, who share a common history and culture). Why is it unlikely that socialism would work in the United States?

Open Ended

The EU created a system where several self-governing states are joined under the authority of a larger central power, have open borders between member states, and share a common currency. What country in the world does this sound similar to?