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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Seymour Martin?
(a) An economist.
(b) A sociologist.
(c) An anthropologist.
(d) An historian.

2. When did Chosroes I rule?
(a) 541-589.
(b) 531-579.
(c) 531-589.
(d) 541-579.

3. Who helped the Emperor stage a coup against Empress Liang's house according to Chapter 9?
(a) Mercenary troops.
(b) Loyal peasants.
(c) Eunuchs.
(d) His brothers.

4. When did the Mamluk regime fall?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1524.
(c) 1532.
(d) 1517.

5. Who was the first civilization to invent the modern state?
(a) India.
(b) China.
(c) Japan.
(d) Iraq.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Sui Dynasty disappear?

2. What would never have occurred to a western slave owner to do in contrast to Eastern slave owners?

3. How many forms of punishment does Oracle bone describe during the Shang Dynasty?

4. Who formulated an ideology of state building that explicitly laid out the logic of the new centralized state?

5. When did Ying Zheng live according to Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. How could the Brahamic religion be described?

2. What weakens and strengths the central state authority?

3. What general assumption is made by the author in the Preface?

4. What three main kingdoms developed according to Chapter 12?

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

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

7. What does Fukuyama discuss about chimps?

8. What did the emergence of the Han dynasty bring?

9. How was Europe different?

10. What was never eliminated in China, India, and the Middle East despite efforts of leaders according to Chapter 16?

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