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  1. 1.What were the Nuremberg Laws (1935) and their significance?

    • •Nazi laws stripping Jews of citizenship and banning intermarriage
    • •SS regulations governing concentration camp administration
    • •German laws forbidding any religion other than Nazi ideology
    • •War crimes laws Nazi Germany imposed on conquered territories

  2. 2.What was the significance of the Edict of Milan (313 AD)?

    • •Imperial proclamation granting religious tolerance and ending Christian persecution
    • •Decree establishing Christianity as Rome's official state religion
    • •Agreement between Rome and bishops establishing church governance
    • •Roman military order transferring the capital from Rome to Constantinople

  3. 3.What was the significance of the invention of writing in Mesopotamia (~3400 BC)?

    • •Cuneiform enabled large-scale records, law, literature, and administration
    • •Writing was invented mainly for religion and restricted to priests
    • •Writing in Mesopotamia arose to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics
    • •Sumerians invented writing to communicate across the Silk Road

  4. 4.What was the role of the League of Nations and why did it fail?

    • •First international peace organization weakened by non-membership and weak enforcement
    • •Global body that prevented WWII but failed to manage the aftermath
    • •European-only alliance created at Versailles to manage German reparations
    • •Trade organization that later evolved into the modern WTO

  5. 5.What were the primary causes of the fall of the Western Roman Empire?

    • •Decisive military defeat to the Huns that left Rome defenseless
    • •Catastrophic plague that killed half the Roman population in the 4th century
    • •Combined military pressure, economic decline, political instability, and overextension
    • •Christianity's pacifist influence preventing Rome from maintaining its military

  6. 6.What was the Taiping Rebellion and why is it significant?

    • •1900 anti-foreign uprising in China preceding the Boxer Protocol
    • •Peasant rebellion led by a Ming loyalist in southern China
    • •19th-century Chinese nationalist movement that overthrew the Qing Dynasty
    • •Massive Chinese peasant rebellion and one of history's deadliest wars

  7. 7.What were the philosophical underpinnings of the American and French Revolutions?

    • •American revolution grounded in Protestant theology and French in classical republicanism
    • •Both revolutions were mostly reactions to taxation without clear ideology
    • •Shared Enlightenment ideas from Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu
    • •American revolution drew from Puritan theology and French from materialism

  8. 8.What was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939)?

    • •An alliance between Germany and Japan
    • •A peace treaty ending the Spanish Civil War
    • •A trade agreement between the Soviet Union and Britain
    • •A non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with secret territorial divisions

  9. 9.What was the significance of Gutenberg's printing press for the Protestant Reformation?

    • •Gutenberg was a Protestant reformer who designed the press for dissent
    • •Press had minimal impact on the Reformation because most people were illiterate
    • •Printing mainly helped the Catholic Church distribute Counter-Reformation doctrine
    • •Printing enabled Luther's ideas to spread rapidly across Europe

  10. 10.What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)?

    • •A trade agreement between European powers
    • •A secret agreement between Britain and France to divide the Ottoman Empire's Arab provinces
    • •An alliance between Russia and the Ottoman Empire
    • •A peace treaty ending World War I