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Gandhi Film Qs and Text Qs for homework

Day One
1. What does Gandhi look like and what is his job at the begininning of the film?
2. What are the laws that Gandhi objects to?
3. Where is Gandhi and what does this area have in common with India
4. How does Gandhi view religion / in particular what did he beleive Christ realized?
5. Why do Gandhi's methods work?
6. How do the Indians differ in status (jobs, areas they can use, other)

Day Two
1. What is Gandhi's philosophical point of view (notice the waiter scene and the scene where he is at home talking to the young politicians dressed like westerners).
2. Noticing that second scene, how does he describe his system of fighting?
3. Throughout this section notice who the political players are and what historical issues are happening?
4. How is the core-periphery model at work here and how does it affect the lives of the people there?
5. Why do you think his non-violent methods keep working? (cite specific examples from individual scenes)

Day Three
1. What role did the press play in helping Gandhi? -cite specifics
2. How did you react to the march on the salt works mines and how does this play into Gandhi's beliefs about non-violence?
3. Why did Gandhi's methods work with England and do you think he could have done the same thing against Hitler? Why or why not?
4. Why did Hindus and Muslims start to fight after the British left? - Cite specifics
5. List the political events and figures.

HMWK
Text Define and 2,3 and page 304
#4 page 308 and id Tamerlane and Akbar
Identify and Qs 1,2,3 and 6 on page 579 (580 in many texts - it is the section three review)

Link for powerpoints

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/sanders/GRG305/textbook_center.htm

Check out this link for finding notes for plantation systems and the core-periphery pattern. You need to search for the correct powerpoint. You need to use the agricultural powerpoint. You can use the htm version so you can view it with your web browser. And you need to use the industry powerpoint (first one) for the core-periphery

Hmwk - Take home test

1. Colonies of Europe
Independence - French Revolution
Divided people up by color
Slavery
GGS - all had the same disadvantages
All became periphery countries to the European core
Set up monoeconomies
# of revolts and dictators before democracy established itself
Corruption inherited from colonial times
2. Go to links page and find travel sites and also try cia factbook or nationmaster.com
3. Core-periphery - notes
4. Plantation system - notes

Test Questions

1These are the jobs of the manufacturing area

a Primary

b Secondary

c Tertiary

d Quaternary

e None

2These are the jobs that involve mining and farming

a Primary

b Secondary

c Tertiary

d Quaternary

f None

3What are the three core areas

a Africa Latin America and Asia

b Japan China and the Koreas

c America Japan and Europe

d Africa Asia and the Americas

e None

4In the old core-periphery model

a The core extracted raw materials

b The core mainly engaged in quaternary industries

c The core countries colonized periphery countries

d The core manufactured and the peripheries extracted raw materials

e Both C and D

5Shifting cultivation involves

a Rotating fields

b Slash and burn farming

c Is done on poor soil

d All of the above

e none

6Areas of shifting cultivation run into problems when

a The fields are not rotated

b The population goes up

c When the shifting is not cultivated

d Both a and b

e none

7(T/F) GGS explains that Latin American countries had a higher percentage of farmers which meant less time was spent inventing, developing their military and creating a socially stratified society

8Plantation farms

a Involve large farms with lots of labor

b Divide the society into two classes

c Create a well-developed economy

d Both a and b

e none

9Latin America countries (internally) were divided along

a Linguistic lines

b Ethnic/Skin Tone lines

c Religious lines

d Political Lines

e None

10Plantations are an example of a industry

a Primary

b Secondary

c Tertiary

d Quaternary

e none

11Plantations count on workers that are

a Low skilled
b Have little education

c Have little political power

d All of the above

e none

12Core countries have been losing jobs in this field to the periphery

a Primary

b Secondary

c Tertiary

d Quaternary

e none

13(T/F) Latin America is a North-South Axis and this means that the people have had little chance of meeting other to get diseases, little chance of finding plants and animals for farming but have had lots of military contact and conflicts

14(T/F) The Aztecs defeated the Incas in open battle in the year 1400 before Cortez came which weakened both empires

15The only large animal indigenous to the Americas was

a Horse

b Llama

c Goats

d Bison

e none

161In order to become a warrior, an Aztec had to

a Capture 4 people in battle

b Kill 4 people in battle

c Kill or capture 4 people

d None of the above

e all

17In the Aztec empire the social layers were ranked

a Warriors emperor workers priests slaves serfs

b Emperor warriors priests slaves and then serfs

c Emperor priests warriors workers slaves and then serfs

d Emperor warriors workers priests serfs and then slaves

e none

18Workers in the Aztec empire

a Had to pay taxes

b Had the same rights has warriors

c Were bound to the land

d Could pay their way into a higher class

e none

19Serfs

a Had to pay taxes

b Had the same rights has warriors

c Were bound to the land

d Could pay their way into a higher class

e none

20Slaves

a Had to pay taxes

b Had the same rights has warriors

c Were bound to the land

d Could pay their way into a higher class

e none

21According the demographic transition chart

a Stage one is folk and stage four is popular and it goes from less to more developed

b Stage one is less developed and has low birth rates

c Stage four has high birth rates

d Stage four and one have low growth rates

e Both a and d

22The highest growth in the demo trans occurs in

a 1

b 2

c 3

d 4

e none

23Involves intense labor on a farm

a Plantation

b Peninsular

c Creole

d Mestizo

e none

24Another way of saying you were born in Spain

a Plantation

b Peninsular

c Creole

d Mestizo

e none

25Leader

a Viceroy

b Plantation

c Peninsular

d Creole

e Mestizo

26. The lowest growth occurs at what stage of the demographic transition

a 1

b 2

c 3

d 4

e None

27 The Aztec used

a Direct Rule

b Indirect Rule

28. The Incas did the following to the people they conquered

a Moved them

b Made them change their language

c Made them change their religion

d All of the above

e none

29 (T/F) The Ivory Coast is a Monoeconomy

30. Monoeconomies are more likely to

a Be LDCs

b Have little social stratification or social mobility

c Are more likely to have bad governments

d All of the above

e None of the above

31. Boom and bust relates to

a Monoeconomies

b Developed countries

c Rise and fall of governments

d All of the above

e None of the above

32. (T/F) Former colonies are likely to be monoeconomies

33. According to the core-periphery model, colonized countries

a Were dependent on core countries for manufactured goods

b Did not become dependent at all

c Ended up ahead of the core countries

d Ended up as monoeconomies in most cases

e Both a and d

34. (T/F) The social classes in Latin America went from lighter skin to darker skin based off of the Europeans’ system of discrimination

35. At the top of the social ladder in colonial Latin America was

a Plantation

b Peninsular

c Creole

d Mestizo

e Mulattos

36How did the Aztecs die

a exposed to diseases they had never had before

b died of smallpox

c had weaker immune systems and died when Europeans gave them their diseases

d did not get diseases because they had a large north-south axis

e all of the above

37The Aztec fighting style is best described as

a Highly skilled with their obsidian weapons

b Effective use of their men in battle

c Mainly determined by religious and not military factors

d Mainly determined by political factors

e All of the above

38Tenochtitlan held

a 1 million people

b 10,000 people

c 200,000 people

d 50,000 people

e none of the above

39Tenochtitlan's symbol

a was an eagle holding a snake on a tree

b was an eagle perched on a large man eating a mouse in the full moon under a tree and the man was c

standing on one leg

c was an eagle on a cactus with a snake in its mouth

d was a snake in a circle

e none of he above

40The Incans most likely did not develop as far as the Europeans because

a they had a lower percentage of their people farming

b they had an easy time developing farming

c they had the llama to help them do physical labor

d they had contact with outside groups which caused them problems

e none of the above

41The Incan farming system

a involved dredging up land from the bottom of a lake and using it for soil

b involved rotating their crops every other year

c involved making hillsides into a step system of farmable layers

d involved slashing and burning

e included wheat and corn and potatoes

42The Incans ate

a llamas

b pigs

c goats

d chickens

e guinea pigs

43Unlike the Incans, Europeans

a studied past military battles

b fought many outside groups previous to meeting the Incas

c had not gotten sick beforehand

d knew how to ambush an enemy

e all of the above

44. a pyramid with a wide base and a narrow top that does not go up too high goes along with a country

a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies

b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies

c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies

d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies

45. a pyramid with a rectangular look that tapers at the top indicates

a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies

b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies

c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies

d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies

46. On the population pyramid, the area to the right

a represents women

b represents men

c represents age

d represents nothing, it just mirrors the left

47. In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of

A) homogeneous groups.

B) sense of family and community

C) groups living in isolated rural areas.

D) groups that have little interaction with other groups.

E) groups living in large cities

48. Folk culture includes all of the following except

a homogeneous

b family

c less development

d individuality

49. According to GGS, farming

a leads to a society with many differnt job

b leads to inventions

c leads to food surpluses and an increase in population

d leads to gunpowder and germs

e all of the above

50. According to GGS, the European beat the Aztecs because

a they had disease immunities

b the East-Wet axis forced them to have better military skills

c they had more inventions due to their better farming techniques and more developed societies

d because they had steel

e all of the above

51. According to GGS, having livestock

a means you have a better chance of dying of disease and is not good

b means you develop diseases first and get the immunities first making you more powerful

c is not an advantage or disadvantage

d means you will not farm

e none of the above

52. According to GGS, Eurasia

a had 13 of the 14 ancestors to all of the large animals

b had an advantage because it is the longest landmass going East to West

c had a greater variety of plants

d all of the above

e none of the above

53The Mayan society collapsed when

a their population went down

b rhey started harvesting wheat

c they let the field go fallow and that made them useless

d they got sick from European diseases

e all of the above

54Slash and burn farming does not go well with stage 2 countries because

a population decline in stage two leads to a shortage of workers

b the increase in people means that fields do not get left fallow for long

c it cannot supply enough food without destroying the land for future use (not sustainable)

d stage two countries are LDCs and vulnerable to problems Malthus predicted

e all of the above except letter a