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WorksheetsModule 7 Review Big History
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which world zone is highlighted in blue?
The Americas
Pacific Island Societies
Afro-Eurasia
Australasia
Which world zone is highlighted in pink?
The Americas
Pacific Island Societies
Afro-Eurasia
Australasia
Which world zone is highlighted in dark purple (to the far right)?
The Americas
Pacific Island Societies
Afro-Eurasia
Australasia
Before the Columbian Exchange, which world zone had a bigger share of large animals that could both do work and provide a protein source for humans?
The Americas
Pacific Island Societies
Afro-Eurasia
Australasia
The largest number of people in a population that the environment can support is known as
carrying capacity
lag phase
population crash
mutualism
Thomas Malthus developed his ideas before the Industrial Revolution. True or False?
True
False
In comparing Malthus's theory to actual world food production and population growth during the past half-century, the principal difference is that
actual food production has been much higher than Malthus predicted.
Malthus's theory predicted much higher population growth than has actually occurred.
actual population growth has been much higher than Malthus predicted.
population increased geometrically while food production increased arithmetically.
What was the main reason that agricultural civilizations desired to expand?
To gain access to more land which would make political administration of the society easier.
To reduce heavy tax burdens.
Resources were regional and limited.
It was better to conquer than be conquered.
Why did outposts and border regions often become centers of agricultural and technological innovation?
isolation in far-flung places sparked creativity
different cultural groups connected and exchanged many ideas that were not necessarily related to military endeavors
they were places where there was constant fighting, thus sparking the need for new ideas
outposts were charged with keeping out foreigners, so the soldiers were isolated and had extra time on their hands to come up with new ideas
As empires grew, roads that were created at first to tie the empires together eventually became used for
long-distance trade networks
communication between rulers and their subjects
collecting taxes
movement of soldiers
What is the basic meaning of The Great Divergence?
the change from hunter foraging to agriculture
the movement from religious belief to a more scientific view
the movement from small, regional civilizations to huge civilizations that spanned across multiple regions
the movement away from agrarian society to one that relies on commerce and the growth of technology
World Historians, as opposed to Western Historians, see the first Great Divergence as happening where?
China
Africa
Europe
Americas
We know that printing became incredibly important in increasing the rate of collective learning. What world region first developed mass printing techniques such as woodblock prints with moveable characters and type
East Asia
West Africa
Middle East
Western Europe
Which is NOT true of stateless societies before modernization?
They could still pose severe military challenges to the mightiest of agrarian empires.
Working within networks of various kinds, they lined empires through trading.
They might supply slaves to agrarian civilizations.
By 1000 CE only 15% of the world was controlled by stateless societies.
In the pre-modern era which area was the most active and complex?
Pastoral civilizations
Agrarian civilizations
The frontiers between agrarian civilizations and pastoralism.
The frontiers far from all agrarian civilizations.
The military confederations that formed in the northeast of North America and in southeastern Canada during the eighteenth century were built on the weapons and liquor traded inward from ______ in return for furs.
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
What was the greatest effect on Afroeurasia from the Columbian Exchange?
disease
population growth
population decline
increase in trade
What was the greatest effect on the Americas from the Columbian Exchange?
disease
population growth
population decline
increase in trade
"Since the French Revolution, states throughout the world have acquired the ability to regulate the daily lives of their subjects in ways that were unthinkable in all earlier epochs." This quote mostly refers to what aspect of modern life?
unions
military
trade networks
religion
Which of the following would be conclusion reached by a Marxist historian?
A major cause of the American Revolution was the dissatisfaction of people laborers.
A major cause of the American Revolution was the desire of the wealthy to get wealthier.
A major cause of the American Revolution was the desire for individual rights.
A major cause of the American Revolution was the existence of slavery.
Which of the following is NOT a demographic theory that caused the modern revolution?
increases in the the size of labor
population pressure
increasing demand for goods
over abundance of fuel
Which economist argued in the Wealth of Nations that commercialization and the market was a natural desire of human nature?
Max Weber
Adam Smith
Benjamin Franklin
Karl Marx
Which economist believed that the "means of production" resided in the ability of workers to expend their energies in the workplace to create wealth?
Max Weber
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Eric Wolf
