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Question 36 and 37 refer to the following passage: Manifesto of the Society for German Colonization, April 1884 “In the partition of the earth, as it has proceeded from the beginning of the fifteenth century up to our times, the German nation received nothing. All the remaining European culture-bearing peoples possess areas outside our continent where their languages and customs can take firm root and flourish. The moment that the German emigrant leaves the borders of the Reich behind him, he is a stranger sojourning on foreign soil. The German Reich, great in size and strength through its bloodily achieved unity, stands in the leading position among the continental European powers: her sons abroad must adapt themselves to nations which look upon us with either indifference or even hostility. For centuries the great stream of German emigration has been plunging down into foreign races where it is lost sight of. Germandom outside Europe has been undergoing a perpetual national decline. . . .   The Society for German Colonization aims to undertake on its own, in a resolute and sweeping manner, carefully chosen colonization projects and thereby supplement the ranks of organizations with similar tendencies. Its particular tasks will be: to provide necessary sums of capital for colonization; to seek out and lay claim to suitable districts for colonization; to direct German emigrants to these regions.” –Carl Peters (German Author), Die Gründung von Deutsch-Ostafrika (The Foundation of German East Africa), 1906 The passages is an extension of an idea that had previously resulted in __________.

Question 42-44 refer to the following map: Major Political Units of the World c. 1750 What characterized the role of European merchants in Asian trade?

Questions 33-35 refer to the following passage There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. Will you youths of England make your country again a royal throne of kings, a sceptred isle, for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace; mistress of learning and of the Arts, faithful guardian of time-honoured principles? This is what England must do or perish: she must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men; seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her feet on, and there teaching these her colonists that their chief virtue is to be fidelity to their country, and their first aim is to advance the power of England by land and sea –John Ruskin (British Critic), Inaugural Lecture, Oxford University, 1870 Although Ruskin called for increased action, which of the following European states saw its influence and involvement in imperialism decline?

Question 45-47 refer to the following image Jesuits in Chinese Dress at the Chinese Emperor’s Court The increase in the intensification of exchange between the hemispheres resulted in which of the following?

Questions 39-41 Refer to the following image: Port of Lisbon, Portugal  What method did European rulers use to control their domestic and colonial economies?

Questions 33-35 refer to the following passage There is a destiny now possible to us, the highest ever set before a nation to be accepted or refused. Will you youths of England make your country again a royal throne of kings, a sceptred isle, for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace; mistress of learning and of the Arts, faithful guardian of time-honoured principles? This is what England must do or perish: she must found colonies as fast and as far as she is able, formed of her most energetic and worthiest men; seizing every piece of fruitful waste ground she can set her feet on, and there teaching these her colonists that their chief virtue is to be fidelity to their country, and their first aim is to advance the power of England by land and sea –John Ruskin (British Critic), Inaugural Lecture, Oxford University, 1870 All of the following are plausible motives for the imperialist ideas conveyed in Ruskin’s lecture excerpt one. Which one?

Questions 7-9 refer to the following passage Brave wives and daughters-in-law, untrammeled by the presence of their menfolk, could voice their own bitterness . . . encourage their poor sisters to do likewise, and thus eventually bring to the village-wide gatherings the strength of “half of China” as the more enlightened women, very much in earnest, like to call themselves. By “speaking pains to recall pains,” the women found that they had as many if not more grievances than the men, and that given a chance to speak in public, they were as good at it as their fathers and husbands. –Woman in Post–World War II Communist China Who is “half of China?”

Question 45-47 refer to the following image Jesuits in Chinese Dress at the Chinese Emperor’s Court In the period from 1450 to 1750, which of the following factors contributed most directly to the spread and reform of existing religions and creation of syncretic belief systems?

Questions 10-12 refer to the following political cartoon

An example of how the Core Problem 2: Improving the Quality of Social Programs occurs in the welfare sector is when a consumer ______.