Exam 14: World Orders

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What describes the situation in a democratic society where a regime begins to lose public support, perhaps due to extended military campaigns and other unpopular imperial endeavors?

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What distinguishes the collapse of the Soviet Union from other historical examples of imperial decline?

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What region of the world is most associated with first wave of decolonization?

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What statement best describes the problem with information overload in an extensive empire?

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Which of Samuel Huntington's "civilizations" coincided with the later boundaries of the Soviet Union?

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What is an advantage of the US as a global superpower for other centers of power in the world economy?

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What is the most significant limiting factor on empires?

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During the Cold War, countries that aligned with the United States pledged their anti-_____ and those allying with the Soviet Union emphasized their anti-_____.

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What resulted from the core-periphery spatial structure of the colonial world economy?

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What country did ISIS or Daesh come from?

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What event revealed that Huntington's characteristics for the Islamic world were more the product of specific regimes and historical contexts?

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What describes the political economy of most early modern empires?

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Evaluating the case of the Soviet Union's collapse, what type of imperial decline best characterizes the ultimate undoing of the Soviet Union?

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What religious affiliation do the fundamentalists that enlist in ISIS hold?

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Which was NOT one of the Soviet Socialist Republics that formed the Soviet Union?

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What is the most significant legacy of colonialism for present-day African nation-states?

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What political entity has emerged in the last thirty years out of poverty to become one of the world's top economies, and now is building up its military and making territorial claims that incite conflict among its neighbors?

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Where did the ancient city of Uruk emerge around six thousand years ago?

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What was NOT a driver of the global integration of space by early modern empires?

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Where in the world was the scramble for territory most pronounced during the age of imperialism?

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