<p>those were based on indo-euopean. many languages are. like alot of european romance languages.</p>
<p>Yeah, the language questions was Indo-European for sure because all the languages mentioned were/are used by populations that are Indo-European descendants.</p>
<p>There was a question about the caste systems with Brahmins, etc. and the answer to that was Rig Veda (a holy Hindu book).</p>
<p>Did you guys feel like the last 2-3 questions were super easy? I remember there was one ridiculously mindless one about the Cold War. Like what situation the historians refer to it as.</p>
<p>^idr that question, answer=??</p>
<p>im surprised at lack of WW questions. the Russian Modernizer=Gorbachev</p>
<h2>Ok…stuff to add…first, confirm them, people (#52 -55…just to make sure they actually were questions, haha)!!</h2>
<ol>
<li>guilds —> excluded women or fixed prices (2) or mass produced goods?</li>
<li>% of South Americans killed by 1600 — > 75 and above</li>
<li>Roundheads in England were led by —> Oliver Cromwell (2 votes)</li>
<li>Feudal equivalents —> vassal and samurai? (2 votes)</li>
<li>reincarnation is not desired: moksha is, the freedom from the cycle (2 votes)</li>
<li>delhi 1200-1400 —> capital city of the delhi sultanate
7.assyrian empire’s successes due to… military, because they used siege weaponry to conquer and disperse people</li>
<li>maintaining hellenic principles meaning… —> mixing Greek and Arab cultures, since hellenism existed in very non-democratic settings, such as in Egypt</li>
<li>the appeal of communist movements in the 1920s —> as an alternative to fascism? or a return to a simpler lifestyle?</li>
<li>Causes of the Boer War —> caused by the British differences in economic and racial policy, most obviously from the British ban on slavery, which was the main cause</li>
<li>Largest African state —> western savannahs or Indian Ocean neighbors?</li>
<li>Byzantine Empire’s chronic problem ----> succession of leadership, “But it also suffered from the same institutional weaknesses that plagued Rome: excessive centralization of power and no smooth, well-established means of legitimate succession in leadership.” -thefreelibrary</li>
<li>Reformist Russian Leader —> Peter the Great, who snuck into Western Europe incognito and hiring many scholars and engineers to work for Russia</li>
<li>Difference between British rule in India and Africa —> the British used Africans as sources of over-seas labor OR higher proportion of christianity in africa</li>
<li>Biggest sugar supplier by 1600 —> Brazil (2 votes)</li>
<li>British acts that promoted Indian independence except… subsidizing textiles industry, or Indians in the bureaucracy, (the british definitely built railways)</li>
<li>Rule of Saint Benedict is —> guidelines for monks/monastic living</li>
<li>Erasmus would disagree with —> the ends justify the means (agreed, 2 votes)</li>
<li>% of slaves going to English North America —> checked wikipedia… 20%!</li>
<li>chinese river - huang he (yellow river)</li>
<li>philosophes - french philosophers supported democratic ideas, not societal reforms (wikipedia)</li>
<li>population graph - lowbirth/highbirth</li>
<li>deng xiaopeng political cartoon - attempting to stop communism from change</li>
<li>jainism - reverence for life</li>
<li>sepoy revolution - lack of unity</li>
<li>laissez faire - free trade</li>
<li>aung sang suu kyi - ?</li>
<li>gifts to African slavers - porcelain, beads, firearms vs. textiles metals and firearms</li>
<li>hijra - year 622, flight of muhammad from mecca to medina, year 1 on islamic calendar</li>
<li>difference between ottoman and safavid - sunni vs. shia</li>
<li>mongols couldn’t defeat the - japanese</li>
<li>east africa traded with in the 1500s - middle east</li>
<li>picture of architecture, hagia sophia - muslim and christian influences</li>
<li>mali - control over gold trade</li>
<li>portuguese countries - brazil and guyana</li>
<li>sharia - islamic law</li>
<li>chinese had to - open five ports</li>
<li>mesoamericans didn’t use the wheel because of - lack of draft animals</li>
<li>people of the book - muslims, jews, christians</li>
<li>map of africa for source of slaves - C, region 3, around senegal/goldcoast/sierra leone area</li>
<li>janissaries - used by ottomans</li>
<li>civilization - irrigation or economic specialization?</li>
<li>hinduism sought - end to reincarnation, moksha</li>
<li>leader of (one of?) the first african independent nation - jomo kenyatta (1963)? kwame nkrumah(1957)? (it’s not nelson mandela, that guy was in the 1990s)</li>
<li>greek/sanskrit/otherlanguages - indo-european</li>
<li>Which author described the economic miseries of industrialization- Dickens?</li>
<li>population growth between 1750-1917- (2 votes) rapidly increased</li>
<li>The accomplishments of Song china- gunpowder, compass, etc.</li>
<li>Passage about Egyptians and making logical connection to Greek Society- ???</li>
<li>What did Machiavelli assert/write about/agree with (lol not sure which phrase it was)-</li>
<li>Social Darwinist theory would appeal to-? Leaders in favor of expansionism</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<ol>
<li>Caste system - Rig Veda</li>
<li>Mexicas? - Aztecs</li>
<li>The Illiad - Greek heroic tradition</li>
<li>Which did not lead to Hitler’s rise - pacifist movement in Germany?
****</li>
</ol>
<p>I added the Christianity option to the British imperialism question, since many people put that (myself included)…any other opinions?</p>
<p>Oh, also, someone duplicated #5. (Also #43) I guess we’ll just fill it up to 96 then?</p>
<ol>
<li>fixed prices. </li>
<li>its appearantly socialized or devloped and non socialized/developed</li>
</ol>
<p>what the heck just happened? did anyone just get a database error? </p>
<p>anyways,
there was this map question towards the end
was the answer break up of USSR?</p>
<p>For the Aung San Suu Kyi question I chose A, but it’s prolly wrong because I think it said something about communism, while Burma has junta dictatorship. :(</p>
<p>Yeah, lol. I guess after SATs we cybernerds crash the system.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got break up of the USSR.</p>
<p>@kh267
52-54 were on the test.
I agree with 52 and 54. Not sure about the others.</p>
<p>that map was totally idiotic! I first interpreted the arrows with country names as movements of the countries and thought W T F. At first I thought the map was showing some kind of military invasion or snthg. lol.</p>
<p>Yeah, the Aztecs is the answer to the Mexicas question. The “?” just denotes the fact that it was a question, haha.</p>
<p>Any other opinions for #55?</p>
<p>@Bilgunn: Haha…yeah. I just saw that I was U.S.S.R. so I was just like “OK. BREAK UP OF SOVIET UNION, KTHNXBYE.” I didn’t even bother to scrutinize the small details of the map because I was already about to run out of time.</p>
<p>yea haha. hitler’s rise…i forgot the asnwer i put but i remember i didnt put pacifist</p>
<p>and add the passage questions. i think there were 2-3 passsages with 2questions each.
i remember the “logic” question.
through this passage, what logical conclusion can you make? i put greeks were the opposite (a)</p>
<p>I agree with that some of the questions were really easy, but there were some really hard ones too. </p>
<p>What did everyone put for “Why was Saint Paul named second snthg?”</p>
<p>^Haha, the Saint Paul one was one of my omitted 6 problems, I think. Haha…</p>
<p>Yeah…some questions were rather tricky. There were quite a few actually that had 2 very tempting choices…I just hope for the most part, I guessed those correctly.</p>
<p>I omitted who-knows-how-many. lol. I just hope for a 700 since I almost didn’t have any history classes, except for my two week Barron’s self-prep.</p>
<p>i kind of did an unintentional experiment on myself: decided on thursday night to take world history, read wikipedia, then got the kaplan 400-page book 10pm on friday and crammed till 5am, slept for two hours. judging from the answers, it seems i can still hope for 700+. i didn’t, however, feel human at all after that :D.</p>
<p>i got 710 last june. hopefull 800 this time!</p>
<p>What did everyone put for the question about Muslim prophets or snthg. Each answer included some ppl and I chose the answer with Abraham but I wasn’t sure whether it was correct because Jesus was included there also.
Basing on my luck so far, I was probably wrong.</p>
<p>iirc, i answered abraham, moses, and jesus to that, and i’m pretty sure islam recognizes jesus as a prophet. dunno about moses, but i thought 2/3 meant it was probably right.</p>
<p>checked kaplan book about gifts to african slavers (#28 in the list), it was definitely textiles, metals, and firearms.</p>
<p>also i’m pretty sure aung sang suu kyi was an advocate of democracy in burma, so if that was an option (which i think it was, as i remember choosing that one), then i think that’s right.</p>
<p>i answered saint paul being the reason why christianity spread beyond the jews as the reason he was called the second founder of christianity or whatever it was.</p>
<h1>55 i got pacifism as well, but i’m not really sure. there was some other option about fear of communism too, and i got tempted to put that, but i didn’t.</h1>