European Centrality and Problem of Eurocentrism

Which of the following best describes "modern" society? (p1)

• Scientific, Political and Industrial Revolutions

• Scientific Revolutions and continued agriculture

• A lack of revolutions

• none of these

The transformative ideas of this era include (p1)

• movement toward social equality and participation in politics by ordinary people

• movement toward greater inequality and continuance of monarchs

• backward thinking in regard to the economy

• none of these

This era, 1750-1900, is when people started to believe that slavery was no longer necessary (p1)

• true

• false

Which of the following best describes another new theme in this era (1750-1900) p2

• ability to exercise enormous power and influence over the rest of humankind

• ability to take over colonies in the Americas

• ability to establish trading post throughout Indian Ocean basin

• none of these

Which is an accurate list of nations/empires that stayed independent but were dominated by a Westernized power? (p2)

• China, Japan, Ottoman

• India, Japan, China

• Brazil, Japan, United States

• Ottoman, Japan, India

Which of the following best describes the 2 phenomena discussed in the 3rd paragraph that were described in the first 2 paragraphs

• revolutions & global dominance

• continued farming & global dominance

• revolutions & continued farming

• none of these

Which of the following is argued as a cause behind the anthropocene era? (p4, beginning of the paragraph)

• industrialization

• agriculture

• monsoon patterns

• none of these

While human beings have long felt themselves vulnerable to nature, in recent centuries _____ has also become increasingly vulnerable to ___________ (p5)

• nature; humans

• humans; nature

Which of the following demonstrates a Eurocentric point of view (p6)

• putting Europe in the center of a world map

• putting China in the center of a world map

• putting Europe in the center of an ocean

• none of these

This image supports which of the following arguments made in paragraph 6

• Europe was given a separate continental status even though its a part of the Asian continent

• Europe was given a separate continental status because it was on a separate continental plate