Critics of industrialization who argue that the Industrial Revolution was a failure generally base their interpretation on which of the following criterion?

True or False: The fur trade was the driving force behind the integration of Siberia into global trade networks.

In what respect were Qing China and the Ottoman Empire similar in the nineteenth century?

Which of the following states was able to renegotiate its “capitulations” or “unequal treaties” with Western powers to its advantage in the opening decade of the twentieth century?

The opium trade in China

Nelson Mandela, a leader of the African National Congress, spent twenty-seven years in prison before being released in 1990; four years later, he became the first black African ____ of South Africa.

The Taiping Uprising

What did the United States expect to gain by sending a naval fleet to Japan in 1853?

When comparing the changes in China and the Ottoman empire after both of these countries witnessed the end to their respective empires (1911 and 1918), it is interesting to note that the new leaders of China tended to retain more of the old Confucian culture, while the Turks rejected much of Islamic teachings.

Which of the following social classes declined in power in the decades following the Meiji restoration in Japan?