World Scholar's Cup History — practice questions
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Practice World Scholar's Cup History in the app →A factory owner in 1890 replaces his steam plant with a power source that also lights the building. That sourcBefore that switch, the machinery of the first industrial age had been driven by:Workers stand at fixed stations while belts carry parts past them for fitting. This arrangement is the:A new hire learns his whole job in a day and knows he is easily replaced. Mechanisation had made factory work:A mill hand works fourteen hours and still cannot cover the rent. Alongside long hours, workers earned:A village family moves to a mill town, joining thousands doing the same. This swelling of cities is called:Asked why they left the countryside, most nineteenth century migrants said they had come to:A city lays pipes running in from the surrounding countryside. Those pipes brought in:Cleaner water, steadier food and better medical care reach an industrial city. Together these:The first nation to industrialise also led the way in ending child labour. That nation was:A child working in a British mill in 1820 was protected by a law capping her working day at:A British textile mill in 1834 may no longer employ any child below the age of:A Prussian factory in 1840 may not employ any child below the age of:Under that same Prussian law, a fifteen year old's shift was capped at:Children finally left the factory floor for the schoolroom once governments required:Weavers in one town organise as weavers rather than alongside every local worker. They have formed:The American Federation of Labor was originally called the Federation of Organized Trades and:In Britain and the United States, unions grew without a political party behind them, which means they developeBy the middle of the nineteenth century, utopian socialism had been largely replaced by:The French economist and philosopher who first used that term was:The influential party formed in 1875 that advocated laws to improve working-class conditions was the:A peasant in 1750 lived much as his grandfather had. Before the nineteenth century, life is described as changStrangers gather in a station, dance for two minutes and scatter. Sociologists call this kind of voluntary, unThousands of fans pack into one stadium for a concert. That grouping in close proximity is best called a:Millions of readers follow the same news story from different cities, never meeting. Sociologists call that grEarly theorists in the 1890s explained crowd behaviour mainly by treating crowds as:After a hurricane, neighbours take supplies from a flooded shop and see it as survival while outsiders call itThe sociologists who developed that theory of new norms in unfamiliar situations were:Under that theory, people in an unfamiliar situation first:A sociologist argues several conditions must stack up before a crowd acts at all. That functionalist account iAnother sociologist credits people in crowds as rational actors deciding to gather. His account is the:Staff at a university protest a bill cutting their bargaining rights on campus. That is a social movement at wAn organisation campaigning for one state to leave the union is operating at which level?Bodies campaigning worldwide on poverty, trafficking and genetically modified food operate at which level?Several organisations working on the same issue together make up a social movement:All of a society's social movement industries taken together form its social movement:A campaign opens by naming the problem clearly so anyone can grasp it. That is:Two movements with similar problems merge their goals into one. That process is called:How many aspects does that alignment process have?A movement builds a link to uninvolved individuals and unorganised groups. That aspect is:A movement broadens its core ideas so they appeal more widely and mobilise more people. That is:Two movements agree to promote each other even though their immediate goals differ. That is:A movement that has won its original demand completely revises its goals to stay relevant. That is:Frames are described as helping individuals identify and understand social events and work out which:Raiders appear on the horizon and the townspeople run uphill to the fortified height. That refuge is the:Sparta seized Messenian farmland and enslaved the people living on it. Those enslaved people were the:After the Persian threat, Greek city-states banded together in 477 BCE with a treasury on Delos. That allianceA Persian force lands on the west coast of Attica and a battle follows there. The place is:A small band, mostly Spartans, chose to stand in a narrow pass between the mountains and the sea. That pass waAthenians left their own city empty and put their faith in the fleet from an island close by. That island was:Around 509 BCE an Athenian aristocrat talked Sparta into helping throw the tyrants out of Athens. He was:With its middle class sliding into debt and slavery, Athens appointed one man in 594 BCE to restore order. He Every four years from 776 BCE, Greeks travelled to one site to compete in contests honouring Zeus. That site wA temple dedicated to Athena Parthenos crowned the Athenian heights and became a symbol of the city. It is thePhilip II died and his twenty-year-old son inherited a rebellion along with the throne. That son is known as:A student dates a coin to the stretch from 323 to 31 BCE, after Alexander's death. That stretch is the:Roman society split into two orders. One was the patricians, and the other was the:Rome's laws were written down and posted in the Forum so any citizen could read them. That code is the:After 367 BCE one of the two highest officials of the republic had to be a plebeian. Those officials were the:After 450 BCE the plebeians met in their own assembly and elected ten officers every year. Those officers wereRome and Carthage fought a long series of wars for control of the western Mediterranean. Those wars are the:A Carthaginian general marched an army with war elephants over the Alps into Italy. That general was:In 31 BCE Octavian beat the fleet of Antony and Cleopatra off the coast of northern Greece. That battle was:The Senate honoured Octavian with a title meaning revered one, used for gods and old heroes. That title was:The early republic had no king. It was run by elected magistrates and a Council of Elders called the:Back in Rome, Caesar pressed the Senate into naming him to an office of sole command. That office was: