Question 1
The spread of Buddhism beyond the Indian subcontinent during the third century B.C.E. was most directly the result of:
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Correct answer: C - State patronage under the Mauryan emperor Ashoka
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The spread of Buddhism beyond the Indian subcontinent during the third century B.C.E. was most directly the result of:
Correct answer: C - State patronage under the Mauryan emperor Ashoka
Early agricultural societies in Mesoamerica differed from those in Southwest Asia primarily because Mesoamerica lacked:
Correct answer: A - Large domesticated draft and pasture animals
Which of the following best describes an administrative innovation of the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Darius I?
Correct answer: B - The division of the empire into provinces governed by appointed satraps
Which of the following was a significant consequence of Mongol control over the Eurasian trade routes during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?
Correct answer: D - Wider movement of merchants, technology, and disease across Eurasia
"Men being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent." - John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1689) The passage above most directly provided the philosophical basis for which of the following?
Correct answer: B - The Declaration of Independence's principle of government by consent
Which provision of the Treaty of Versailles is most commonly identified by historians as a source of German resentment that contributed to the rise of Nazism?
Correct answer: C - The requirement that Germany accept responsibility for the war
The Non-Aligned Movement, whose guiding principles were articulated at the 1955 Bandung Conference, was composed primarily of states that:
Correct answer: A - Declined to align formally with either Cold War superpower bloc
Of the roughly 12.5 million Africans transported across the Atlantic between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the largest share was taken to:
Correct answer: D - Brazil and the sugar colonies of the Caribbean
All of the following were weaknesses of the government under the Articles of Confederation EXCEPT that Congress lacked the power to:
Correct answer: C - Admit new states to the Union on equal terms
"By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." - James Madison, The Federalist No. 10 (1787) In this essay, Madison argues that the danger described above is best controlled by:
Correct answer: A - Extending the republic over a large territory with many competing interests
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