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C: High
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Show how the religious reformation and dynastic rivalries further divided the people of Europe at a time when greater unity seemed desirable.
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Describe how royal centralization increased the unity and power of Spain, France, and England
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Describe and give concrete illustrations of the effects of the Atlantic system on African, European, and American societies and their environments.
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Explain the relationship between the spread of sugar plantations and the growth of the slave trade.
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Describe the construction of the Mughal Empire in India and the relations between Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism.
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Describe the roles of the Jesuits and the East India Companies in the development of cultural exchange and trade between Europe and Eastern Asia.
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Use the concept of "land-based empires" to analyze the territorial expansion, the economic and political structures, and the foreign relations of the Russian and Qing empires.
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Describe the Tokugawa political system and explain why and how the decentralized political structure contributed simultaneously to economic growth and to the weakening of the Tokugawa state.
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Discuss and compare the course of the American, the French, and the Haitian revolutions, and analyze the reasons for and significance of the different outcomes of these three revolutions.
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Describe the causes and results of agitation for the extension of democratic rights and national self-determination in Europe and the United States of America in the nineteenth century up to 1870.
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Describe the technological innovations that spurred industrialization.
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Explain the relationship between the industrialized world and the nonindustrial world as demonstrated in the cases of Russia, Egypt, and India.
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Compare the political challenges faced by Latin American and English-speaking North American nations in the nineteenth century.
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Explain the development of British rule in India, the contradictory policies (social reform vs. support of tradition) of the raj, and the significance of the Sepoy Rebellion.
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Describe and give concrete examples of the ways in which African, Asian, and Pacific peoples demonstrated the continued vitality of local cultures during this period.
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Explain three of the external and internal challenges that weakened the Qing Empire in the nineteenth century.
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Explain the concept of nationalism and be able to give concrete examples of the development and uses of nationalism in Europe.
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Analyze the causes and consequences of the Depression and relate them to the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany.
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Describe the ways in which the First World War, economic growth, technological change, and scientific advances led to social and cultural change in Western Europe and North America from 1918 to 1929.
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Compare the histories of Japan and China from 1900 to 1929 and be able to offer explanations for the differences in the destinies of these two nations.
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Explain the origins, conduct, and social and political effects of the First World War in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the United States.
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Describe the process by which Central and Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands were brought under the domination of the great powers.
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Evaluate the causes and the consequences of the Second World War in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific theater.
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Describe the effects of colonial rule on Africa between 1900 and 1949 and to analyze the relationship between the effects of colonial rule, the World Wars, and the Depression, and the beginnings of the independence movement in Africa.
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Assess the causes of the Cold War and its political and environmental consequences for Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the two superpowers.
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Appraise the challenges of nation building and be able to compare the problems and the nation-building strategies of particular developing countries.
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Assess the dynamics of Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Asian political and economic development from about 1975 through the 1990s.
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Compare and discuss the significance of demographic trends in the developed and the developing worlds in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Discuss the main benefits and dangers of growing political, economic, and cultural integration.
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Describe the way in which technology has contributed to the process of global interaction.
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