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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 did the Greeks and Romans poor on the tomb of a dead man?

2. When did the Norman Conquest of England take place?

3. When did the relationship between landlord and peasant had come to acquire a contractual character according to Jeno Szucs?

4. When was Machiavelli's "The Prince" written according to Chapter 15?

5. In China, what was the class somewhat below that of the nobility that included soldiers or other meritorious commoners?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the driving factor in creating a unified Chinese state, according to Chapter 7?

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

3. What does Fukayama identify as the three main institutions of modern democracy?

4. What does Fukuyama examine regarding the structure of the Ottomans in Chapter 15?

5. What failures led do the undoing of the Ottoman Empire?

6. What was the first kind of organization according to the author in Chapter 3?

7. What were jatis and varnas according to Chapter 11?

8. What aspects of modern bureaucracy were in place during the Han dynasty?

9. What did Fukuyama argue about the Malmuks in Chapter 14?

10. How did the Mamluks eventually disturb the nature of their relation to the state?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of the Mamluks and discuss how they came into power and why they were conquered.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of warfare and taxation in Chinese states.

Essay Topic 3

Choose a political theorist discussed in Chapter 2 and refute or support their opinions.

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