Deck 14: World Orders

Question 1

Where did the ancient city of Uruk emerge around six thousand years ago?

A) between the Tigris and Euphrates
B) in the Ganges River Valley
C) between the White and Blue Nile
D) in the Indus River Valley

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What is the most significant limiting factor on empires?

A) shrinking world effect
B) environmental diversity
C) distance decay effect
D) poor transportation

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What was NOT a driver of the global integration of space by early modern empires?

A) growing international trade
B) diffusion of technology
C) decline of religious power
D) cross-cultural borrowing

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What describes the political economy of most early modern empires?

A) equal interaction and cross-cultural borrowing
B) core-periphery imperial relationships
C) free markets open to competition
D) well-integrated trade networks

Question 5

What resulted from the core-periphery spatial structure of the colonial world economy?

A) globally uneven development
B) wealth of the core
C) poverty of the periphery
D) all of these

Question 6

Where in the world was the scramble for territory most pronounced during the age of imperialism?

A) Africa
B) Asia
C) North America
D) South America

Question 7

During the Cold War, countries that aligned with the United States pledged their anti-_____ and those allying with the Soviet Union emphasized their anti-_____.

A) neoliberalism; socialism
B) communism; capitalism
C) imperialism; Westernism
D) capitalism; socialism

Question 8

What describes the situation in a democratic society where a regime begins to lose public support, perhaps due to extended military campaigns and other unpopular imperial endeavors?

A) information overload
B) strategic limits
C) fiscal limits
D) legitimation crisis

Question 9

What statement best describes the problem with information overload in an extensive empire?

A) the larger the empire, the more information there is to examine
B) when the empire modernizes, information travels too fast to control
C) the larger the empire, the more languages the information must be offered in
D) when the empire diversifies, information must be appealing to each audience

Question 10

What region of the world is most associated with first wave of decolonization?

A) Africa
B) Asia
C) North America
D) South America

Question 11

What is the most significant legacy of colonialism for present-day African nation-states?

A) arbitrary imperial borders
B) well-developed infrastructure
C) economic dependence
D) undeveloped infrastructure

Question 12

What distinguishes the collapse of the Soviet Union from other historical examples of imperial decline?

A) it was brought about by regime change in Moscow
B) it occurred without any tensions over borders
C) it was brought about by popular uprisings
D) it occurred rapidly with the fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 13

Evaluating the case of the Soviet Union's collapse, what type of imperial decline best characterizes the ultimate undoing of the Soviet Union?

A) information overload
B) strategic limits
C) fiscal limits
D) legitimation crisis

Question 14

Which was NOT one of the Soviet Socialist Republics that formed the Soviet Union?

A) Estonia
B) Poland
C) Belarus
D) Georgia

Question 15

Which of Samuel Huntington's "civilizations" coincided with the later boundaries of the Soviet Union?

A) Confucian
B) Islamic
C) Orthodox
D) African

Question 16

What event revealed that Huntington's characteristics for the Islamic world were more the product of specific regimes and historical contexts?

A) The September 11, 2001 attacks
B) The collapse of the Soviet Union
C) Arab Spring
D) Decolonization

Question 17

What is an advantage of the US as a global superpower for other centers of power in the world economy?

A) The world economy would be firmly capitalist and only market economies will succeed
B) The economic success of a peaceful world is underwritten by US military expenditures
C) The world economy would be bolstered by the requirements of any military campaigns
D) The political success of a prosperous world is underwritten by US economic development

Question 18

What political entity has emerged in the last thirty years out of poverty to become one of the world's top economies, and now is building up its military and making territorial claims that incite conflict among its neighbors?

A) USA
B) Russia
C) EU
D) China

Question 19

What country did ISIS or Daesh come from?

A) Iran
B) Syria
C) Iraq
D) Saudi Arabia

Question 20

What religious affiliation do the fundamentalists that enlist in ISIS hold?

A) Sunni
B) Christian
C) Shiite
D) Muslim