Quote: Whatever is, is in its Causes just Since all Things are by Fate; but purblind Man Sees but a part o’ th’ Chain, the nearest Link, His Eyes not carrying to the equal Beam That poises all above.

PERSON: Benjamin Franklin

Named: A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain

Date: January 1, 1725

QUESTION: Which of the following countries was not in competition for Korea in the 1870's?

ANSWER: England

QUESTION: Powerful banking and industrial families in Japan

ANSWER: Zaibatsu

QUESTION: American naval officer who opened Japan to trade

ANSWER: Mattew Perry

QUESTION: In a(n) ______, local rulers governed but western powers were in actual control.

ANSWER: Protectorate

QUESTION: A policy considered un-democratic by opponents

ANSWER: Imperialism

QUESTION: Which of the following was a cause of the Ottoman Empire's decline?

ANSWER: The weakening of the central government

QUESTION: Founder of Indian nationalism

ANSWER: Ram Mohun Roy

QUESTION: A single item grown for sale

ANSWER: Cash-crop

QUESTION: Indian Scholar who set up educational societies

ANSWER: Ram Mohum Roy

QUESTION: Which of the following was a result of the Sepoy Rebellion?

ANSWER: Britain began to rule India directly

QUESTION: The Sepay Rebellion was caused by

ANSWER: British insensitivity to Indian customs

QUESTION: Ruled Sikh Empire in Northwest India in the 1800's

ANSWER: Ranjit Singh

QUESTION: In Jean-Jaques Rousseau's concept of a social contract _________.

ANSWER: an entire society agrees to be governed by it's general will

QUESTION: To Voltaire and many other philosophies, the universe was ________.

ANSWER: Like a clock

QUESTION: John Locke's ideas suggest that people were ________.

ANSWER: Molded by their experiences

QUESTION: Isaac Newton's univeral law of gravitation _________.

ANSWER: Showed how one law could explain all motion in the universe

QUESTION: _______ was the first to argue that the sun, not earth, was the center of the universe

ANSWER: Nicholas Copernicus

QUESTION: Egyption leader who led the foundation for modern Egypt

ANSWER: Muhammad Ali

QUESTION: Greatly increased trade for Britain in India

ANSWER: Suez Canal