Question

1. In what year did the French Revolution begin?
2. Which leader is most associated with the independence movements in South America?
3. What was the primary outcome of the Glorious Revolution of 1689 in England?
4. Compare the power of an absolute monarch like Louis XIV to the type of government established after the English Civil War.

1. Which country is considered the origin of the Industrial Revolution?
2. Who wrote The Communist Manifesto and predicted a worker-led revolution?
3. What term describes the rapid movement of people from rural areas to cities?

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4. Compare the industrialization process in Germanyand Japan. How did their political situations influence their timing or methods?
5. Why were factory owners in the 19th century specifically interested in hiring women and children instead of only adult men?

1. Which Japanese leader unified the country and founded the Tokugawa Shogunate?
2. What was the purpose of the sankin-kōtai(alternate attendance) system in Japan?
3. Which ethnic group established the Qing Dynasty after the fall of the Ming?
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4. In what ways were the isolationist policies of Tokugawa Japan similar to the trade restrictions implemented during the Qing Dynasty?
 
1. Which social class was at the top of the Japanese hierarchy and was the only group permitted to carry two swords?
2. According to the Confucian values of the Shogunate, why were peasants ranked higher than merchants?
3. What was the name of the "outcast" group that existed outside the four-class system and performed tasks considered "impure"?
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4. How did the status of the Samurai change as Japan transitioned from a period of constant civil war to the peaceful "Pax Tokugawa"?
5. Analyze the irony of the Merchant class's position in society: how did their economic power compare to their social status by the end of the Tokugawa period?

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Answer 1

First block
1. 1789.
2. Simón Bolívar.
3. It put Parliament over the monarch and established a constitutional monarchy (Bill of Rights 1689).
4. Louis XIV: absolute, centralized royal power. Post–English Civil War: constitutional/Parliamentary monarchy with limits on the king.

Industrial Revolution block
1. Great Britain (England).
2. Karl Marx (with Friedrich Engels).
3. Urbanization (movement from countryside to cities).

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4. Germany: state-supported, heavy-industry drive after unification; Japan: rapid, state-led Meiji modernization borrowing Western tech. Political centralization sped both, but timing differed (Germany mid‑late 19th c.; Japan from 1868).
5. Women and children were cheaper, easier to supervise, and fit certain machines/tasks; they increased labor flexibility and profits.

Tokugawa Japan block
1. Tokugawa Ieyasu.
2. To control the daimyo by forcing alternate residence in Edo, ensuring loyalty and financial drain.
3. The Manchus (who founded the Qing).
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4. Both restricted foreign trade to selected ports/partners, banned or limited foreigners/missionaries, and tightly regulated contact to preserve order and sovereignty.

Social hierarchy block
1. Samurai.
2. Because Confucian values honored productive, stabilizing labor (peasants grew food) and saw merchants as profit‑seekers.
3. Eta (Burakumin).
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4. Samurai lost battlefield roles, became bureaucrats/administrators, and many declined economically as peace removed war stipends.
5. Irony: merchants were legally low but grew wealthy and influential economically—often richer than samurai despite lower social status.