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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was S. E. Finer's occupation?

2. How may countries were considered free by the Freedom House in 1973, according to Chapter 1?

3. How much of human and Chimpanzee DNA overlap?

4. When did Sultan Barquq come to power?

5. How long did it take to put down the Yellow Turban peasant rebellion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How could the Brahamic religion be described?

2. What does Fukuyama explain about China and its history in Chapter 6?

3. What was feudalism like in China?

4. Why was the Han dynasty not a democracy?

5. What caused a change in the number of polities during the Zhao Dynasty?

6. What practice does Fukuyama examine in Chapter 13?

7. What weakens and strengths the central state authority?

8. What brought distant common ancestors closer according to Fukuyama?

9. What was the Qin system and why did it collapse according to Chapter 8?

10. How was India's early political development different from that of China according to Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role that Confucianism played in China.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of the Ottoman empire, including how it spread and why they were defeated.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the five attributes that distinguish a state from a tribal organization, and use examples of each from the book.

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