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World History
Final EXAM
ⅠTell whether the following are true or false according to the knowledge you have learned. (15 x 3=45 pts)
1. In the peolponnesian War(431-404),the Polesis divided into two armed camps under the leadership of Athens and Sparta, the principal contenders of hegemony in the Greek world.By 404 B.C.E. The Atheunians and their allies had forced the Spartans to unconditional surrender.( )
2. During the Sixth century C.E. Germanic invasions brought and end to Roman authority in the western half of the empire.( )
3. Byzantium dominated trade to such an extent that trading peoples recognized the Byzantine gold cone ,the bezant, as the standard currency of the Mediterranean basin for more than half a millennium, from the sixth through twelfth century.( )
4. Dring the Tang and Song dynasties ,this syncretic Buddhism became an immensely popular and inflential faith in China.( )
5. In postclassical times Indian, as merchants and manufacturers became increasingly important in the large economy, they organized powerful workers’ guilds to represent their interests.These guilds, however, were largely incorportated in to the caste system as distinct jati.( )
6. Because imperial authorities were unable to defend their territory agaist invaders,political and military initiative in western Europe passed increasingly to regional and local authorities who could organize some means of defense. In England, the leaders of that effort was king Otto.( )
7. The individual most responsible for providing the Roman church with its sense of direction was Pope Gregory Ⅰ,also know as Gregory the Great.( )
8. In 1206, an assembly of Mongol leader recongnized Khubilai supremacy by proclaiming him Chinggis Khan.( )
9. The lion prince Sundiata(reigned 1230-1255) built the Mali empire duing the first half of the thirteenth century.( )
10. In the medieval West Europe, social commentator frequently held that European society embraced four estates or classes:those who pray, those who fight ,those who trade, and those who work.( )
11. The English East Indiea Company founded in 1602, and its Dutch couterpart, the United East India Company established in 1600.( )
12. In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus publised On the revolutions of the Heavenly spheres, Which broke with the ptolemaic theory.( )
13. Serving as symbols of Japan’s remarkable development were the conclusion of an alliance with britain as an equal power in 1902and convincing displays of military prowess in vcitories over the Chinese empire(1894-1895) and the Russian empire(1904-1905).( )
14. After Adolf Hitler’s postwar political awakening ,he came into contact with an obscure political party sempathetic to his ideas. In 1921 he became chairman of the party now known as the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.( )
15. A central feature of the cold war world was a costly arms and the terrifying proliferation of nulcear weapons.The struggle between the United States and Soviet Union let to the creation of the two military blocs: the Nouth Atlantic Treaty in 1955. Organization. And the Warsaw Treaty Organization in 1965.( )
Ⅱ Term explaination (3 x 10=30 pts)
(1) The Delian League
(2) The Hellenistic period
(3) The Boston tea party
Ⅲ Essay questions (25 pts)
During the half millennium from 1000 to 1500 C.E., nomadic people of central Asia played a larger role than ever before in world history. Write some ideas about the fact.