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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 was the nickname of Empress Wu?

2. What Empire did not allow aristocracy to emerge?

3. When did the French revolution take place?

4. When did the Supreme Court rule on the Lochner v. New York case?

5. When did King Bela III die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are the political factors traced back to?

2. What does Fukuyama say about the English Parliament in Chapter 27?

3. What tips a state towards accountability according to Chapter 28?

4. What is political decay part of?

5. What does Fukuyama distinguish between when discussing the "rule of law" in Chapter 17?

6. What was the Mandate of Heaven?

7. What did the Church become in Europe?

8. What eventually happened to the central authority of the state in Hungary?

9. What is the first question that Fukuyama asks about political development in Chapter 30?

10. What was British Common Law?

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

Define legalism and compare legalism with Confucianism, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the probable contributors in the formation of a state and conclude whether Fukuyama's stance has merit.

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