Social Studies Review 3

Germany, a European nation, has a legal system based on secular (nonreligious) law. Iran, a Middle Eastern country, has a legal system that mixes secular and religious laws. Which statement compares the legal systems of Germany and Iran?

• Religion has a greater influence on Iran’s legal system than on Germany’s legal system.

• Religion has a greater influence on Germany’s legal system than on Iran’s legal system.

• Both Germany’s and Iran’s legal systems are founded on religious principles.

• Both Germany’s and Iran’s legal systems are founded on nonreligious principles.

Based on the chart above, how would voters most likely respond to a climate crisis?

• A majority of all voters would support candidates who propose solutions.

• Most voters would deny and ignore the crisis, preferring to wait for a natural remedy.

• Undecided voters would provide the least support for the use of public funds to solve the crisis.

• Voters for Candidate Y would provide the most support for public and private efforts to solve the problem.

The exportation of laborers and capital from old to new countries . . . adds to the joint wealth of the old and the new country . . . There needs be no hesitation in affirming that Colonization, in the present state of the world, is the best affair of business, in which the [wealth] of an old and wealthy country can engage. Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill, 1848 Based on the excerpt, what was Mill’s perception of colonialism?

• Colonization expands the power of European churches.

• Colonization benefits both the colonizer and the colonized.

• Colonization introduces diseases to Europe that sicken entire populations.

• Colonization encourages European countries to create democratic governments.

Mercantilism was an economic theory and practice used by Europeans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to increase the wealth of a nation or empire. This was done by acquiring gold and silver and maintaining a favorable balance of trade, in which a country exported more than it imported. How did mercantilism encourage European countries to colonize both the Americas and Africa?

• Europeans wanted new navigational technologies.

• Wealthy European merchants wanted to build their own empires.

• New labor forces were needed to work large plantations in the New World.

• European countries needed raw materials to produce manufactured goods.

What does this map say about European Exploration?

• Plants, Animals, and Diseases were shared globally
• Diseases went to The Americas
  
• Plants moved continents
• Live stock went across the globe

Which is NOT a types of economic systems?

• Traditional/Barter
• Command/Communism
• Free Market/Capitalism
• Supply and Demand

What historical period does this graph refer too?

• Triangular Trade
• European Exploration
• Industrial Revolution
• Rectangular Trade

This map best shows what concept of the Industrial Revolution? 

• Scabs
• Mechanization
• Child Labor Maps 
• Urbanization 

What statement is true about WWI?

• It was a cause of WWII.
• It was fought in trenches. 
• It had new weapons never used before.
• All answers choices are correct. 
  

Which era of history does Rousseau's quotes come from?

• Industrial Revolution
• European Imperialism
• Enlightenment
  
• French Revolution