# ✅ Checkpoint: Ideas, Technology, and Globalization

By Better Wise



## Quiz

1. Luther's 95 Theses (1517) spread across German lands within about two weeks, while Jan Hus made very similar arguments a century earlier and was burned. What does the lesson say best explains the different outcome?
   - The difference was distribution, not doctrine: cheap printed pamphlets carried the theses at scale.
   - German princes were uniformly more tolerant of religious dissent than the authorities who tried Hus.
   - Luther's theology was fundamentally new, while Hus repeated older ideas.
   - Literacy in 1517 Germany had reached nearly universal levels.
2. Which statement best captures what the lesson calls the public sphere?
   - A government office that licensed printers and approved books before publication.
   - A space created by cheap print, rising literacy, coffeehouses, and salons where private people reason publicly about authority.
   - The network of royal courts where dynastic loyalty was negotiated.
   - The market where printed books were bought and sold.
3. According to the lesson's winners-and-losers table for the print-and-nation shift, which of the following are listed as losers? Select all that apply.
   - Literate middle classes
   - Regional autonomy
   - Multilingual empires such as the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Romanov empires
   - Publishers
   - Local dialects
4. Benedict Anderson described the nation as an ____ community of strangers who believe they share a language, a history, and a fate.
5. The lesson's three-step test for connecting a technology to historical change requires naming the technology precisely, finding a measurable indicator, and then doing what?
   - Proving the technology was invented before any of its rivals.
   - Asking who gained and who lost, and whether the losers had a realistic alternative.
   - Showing that the change was inevitable and benefited everyone.
   - Listing every invention that existed in the same decade.
6. The Chicago to Liverpool wheat price gap shrank from more than 50 percent in 1870 to roughly 15 percent by 1913. Which technologies does the lesson say worked as one system to produce this? Select all that apply.
   - Jet freight
   - Container standardization in the 1960s
   - Railways moving prairie wheat to the coast
   - The telegraph letting Liverpool buyers price Chicago grain the same afternoon
   - Steamships carrying grain across the ocean
7. In April 1956, Malcom McLean's converted tanker Ideal X carried ____ containers from Newark to Houston.
8. During the 1870 wave's grain invasion, Britain, Germany, and Denmark faced the same shock. Which pairing of country and response matches the lesson?
   - Germany stayed open and switched to dairy exports; Britain passed the Méline tariff.
   - Britain raised tariffs to protect its farmers; Denmark stayed open and imported grain.
   - All three countries raised tariffs, and farm prices stayed high everywhere.
   - Britain stayed open and let domestic agriculture shrink; Denmark stayed open but switched to butter and bacon for the British market.
9. The third globalization wave's signature technology was the standard shipping ____, first used commercially in 1956.
10. In your own words, explain why the same falling freight cost produced different outcomes in the 1870 wave and the 1990 wave. Use at least one concrete example from the lesson (for example the grain invasion responses or the China shock).


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## Contents

Part of [🧭 History and Big-Picture Thinking](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking.md)

- **🌾 Turning Points: Agriculture, Empires, Industry**
  - [🌱 The Agricultural Revolution: Surplus, Cities, and Hierarchy](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/agricultural-revolution-surplus-cities-hierarchy.md)
  - [🏛️ Empires and Trade Networks: Tribute, Roads, and Ideas in Motion](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/empires-trade-networks-tribute-roads-ideas.md) (sign-in required)
  - [⚙️ Industrialization: Coal, Steam, and the Productivity Break](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/industrialization-coal-steam-productivity-break.md)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Turning Points and Their Drivers](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/checkpoint-turning-points-drivers.md)
- **🌍 Ideas, Technology, and Globalization**
  - [💡 Ideas in Motion: Print, Enlightenment, and Nationalism](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/ideas-in-motion-print-enlightenment-nationalism.md)
  - [🚂 Technology as a Force: Ships, Rails, and Containers](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/technology-as-force-ships-rails-containers.md)
  - [🔗 Three Waves of Globalization: 1492, 1870, 1990](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/three-waves-globalization-1492-1870-1990.md)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Ideas, Technology, and Globalization](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/checkpoint-ideas-technology-globalization.md) — this lesson
- **🔍 Thinking Like a Historian: Sources, Bias, Causation**
  - [📜 Reading Primary Sources: Author, Audience, Context](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/reading-primary-sources-author-audience-context.md)
  - [🎭 Spotting Bias and Framing in a Source](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/spotting-bias-framing-in-a-source.md)
  - [🧩 Causal Patterns: Contingency, Conjuncture, and Comparison Today](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/causal-patterns-contingency-conjuncture-comparison.md) (premium content)
  - [✅ Checkpoint: Sources, Bias, and Causal Patterns](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/checkpoint-sources-bias-causal-patterns.md) (premium content)
- [Course cheatsheet](https://everwise.study/courses/history-and-big-picture-thinking/cheatsheet.md) (premium content)