Historical Developments Quiz

Identify and explain ONE historically specific example of intensified human land use in the period 1450–1750 C.E. that would support the author's argument.

• The development of the steam engine

• The Columbian Exchange

• The invention of the printing press

• The rise of sedentary agriculture

Identify and explain ONE historically specific example from the period before 1450 C.E. in which humans interacted with the environment in ways similar to those described in the passage.

• The construction of the Great Wall of China

• The deforestation of Europe for agriculture

• The building of the Pyramids of Giza

• The creation of the Silk Road

Identify and explain ONE late-twentieth-century development that likely explains historians' interest in the subject of the passage.

• The Green Revolution

• The Space Race

• The Cold War

• The Digital Revolution

Identify and explain ONE way in which industrialization in the period circa 1750–1900 can be considered an economic turning point in global history.

• The decline of the Silk Road

• The rise of global trade networks

• The invention of the compass

• The fall of Constantinople

Identify and explain ONE way in which industrialization in the period circa 1750–1900 can be considered a political turning point in global history.

• The establishment of the United Nations

• The American Revolution

• The rise of nation-states

• The signing of the Magna Carta

Identify and explain ONE way in which industrialization in the period circa 1750–1900 can be considered a social turning point in global history.

• The abolition of slavery

• The spread of the Black Death

• The invention of the printing press

• The fall of the Roman Empire