Global II Review

The primary purpose of both the Suez and the Panama canals was to 

• Control immigration to the colonies
• limit the slave trade
• expand irrigation systems
• decrease the distance of trade routes

• Great Leap Forward
• Cultural Revolution
• Four Modernizations
All of these policies are associated with 

• India
• Chile
• Italy
• China

…They stood in the voting queues [lines] together—white, black, Colored, Indian—and they discovered that they were compatriots [countrymen]. White South Africans found that a heavy weight of guilt had been lifted from their shoulders. They are discovering what we used to tell them—that freedom is indivisible, that black liberation inexorably [inevitably] meant white liberation. We have seen a miracle unfolding before our very eyes—it is a dream coming true. It is a victory for all South Africans. It is a victory for democracy and freedom.…
— Bishop Desmond Tutu, The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution 36
The event described in this passage signifies the end of which policy? 

• apartheid
• colonialism
• detente
• appeasement 

• Galileo used the telescope and challenged the teachings of the day.
• Sir Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity. • Copernicus determined that the Sun is the center of the universe.

Which period is most directly associated with these events?

• Early Middle Ages
• Scientific Revolution
• Protestant Reformation
• Industrial Revolution

A comparison of the French Revolution (1789) and the Russian Revolution (1917) illustrates that

• political and economic inequalities often lead to demands for change
• democratic governments generally result from revolutions
• revolutions are based on a single grievance
• privatization eventually leads to class struggle

In which region are most member-nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) located?

• Latin America
• Middle East
• Europe
• East Asia

The kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai were all able to achieve golden ages in part because of their 

• reliance on sugar plantations in the Niger delta
• control of trans-Saharan trade routes
• discovery of oil in the Gulf of Guinea
• Abiliity to use the natural harbors on the Atlantic Ocean coast

By the late 1500s, the Ottoman Empire governed an area that extended from 

• southwestern Asia to eastern Europe and into northern Africa 
• the Arabian Peninsula across northern Africa and into southern Spain
• Mongolia across the central Asian kingdoms 
• the Indian subcontinent to the Straits of Malacca

 “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” and “Peace, Land, and Bread” are slogans used by revolutionaries to represent

• framework for economic stability
• political and economic ideals
• plans for maintaining the social hierarchy
• methods of political reform

One way in which Otto von Bismarck and Camillo Cavour are similar is that both leaders (1) followed a policy of isolationism (2) adopted papal policies (3) led an African independence movement (4) promoted unification to form a new nationstate

• followed a policy of isolationism
• promoted unification to form a new nationstate
• led an African independence movement 
• adopted papal policies