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What was an important contribution of the sankin kōtai (alternate attendance) system to the modernization of Japan?

a) Japan’s people developed a stronger sense of national cultural unity.

b) Japan’s government established control over Western intellectuals forced to live in Osaka.

c) Japan improved its railroad system by connecting the countryside to the cities.

d) Japan increased the power of the daimyo during the Tokugawa shogunate.

The purpose of the Tokugawa’s sankin kōtai (alternate attendance) system is similar to the purpose of

a) British suffragettes who demanded Parliament grant women the right to vote

b) King Louis XIV of France who required nobles to stay at Versailles

c) Simón Bolívar who expected the indigenous people to rise up against the Spanish

d) European countries that divided up the African continent

Which claim related to the economic situation in 18th-century France is most directly supported by this passage?

a) A surplus of grain hurt French farmers.

b) Subsidized bread prices led to improved living conditions in French cities.

c) Economic competition with England led to agricultural innovation in France.

d) Efforts to stimulate industry in France through trade agreements caused unemployment.

Which event was caused in part by the conditions described in this passage?

a) collapse of the British Empire

b) French withdrawal from Mughal India

c) German wars of unification

d) French Revolution

What was Lin Zexu’s purpose for writing this letter to Queen Victoria?

a) to negotiate opening trade between China and Britain

b) to attempt to stop the fl ow of opium into China

c) to address the injuries the Chinese inflicted on the British

d) to gain independence from unjust British rule

What is a long-term consequence of the historical development discussed in this 1839 letter?

a) establishment of British spheres of infl uence in China

b) accumulation of great wealth by the Chinese at British expense

c) successful enforcement of a Chinese embargo on all British imports

d) creation of a mutually beneficial trade alliance between Britain and China

Marx and Engels are reacting to changes resulting from

a) imperialism

b) nationalism

c) industrialization

d) democratization

Which action did Marx and Engels predict would change the conditions described in this passage?

a) implementation of government reforms

b) adoption of laissez-faire policies

c) use of passive resistance

d) revolts by the working class

The division of the mandates into these states caused future conflicts because

a) the Ottoman Empire thought it could easily conquer the divided territories

b) Britain received a larger territorial mandate than France did

c) none of the territories were turned over to German control as they had been promised

d) the boundaries failed to fully recognize competing religious and ethnic interests

The situation shown on this map played a direct role in the

a) building of the Suez Canal

b) invasion of Afghanistan

c) series of Arab-Israeli wars

d) admission of Turkey to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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