12 Questions
The 1872 painting by John Gast, depicting the flight of Native Americans and animals from the light of American empire progressing West, was called: ___________
American Progress
According to the lecture, the Polish Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin invented the term _______ in 1943.
genocide
The lecture identified two distinctive features of modern racism: a.Biological (physiological and anatomical) b._______
historical
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) invented the system of modern ________, or binomial nomenclature.
taxonomy
According to American wisdom, “there ain’t no such thing as a _______ lunch___
free
The idea of Progress is the idea of secular ________.
salvation
The ideology of history is called ‘historicisu’.
historicism
In modernity, there is a collapse of the ____dimension into the immanent/secular dimension.
transcendent
The Indian national song ‘Vande Mataram’ represents India as the goddess _____.
Durga/Kali
The Objectives Resolution of 1949 begins by stating the Allah has delegated his authority to the State of Pakistan through its _____.
people
According to Gil Scott-Heron, who’s on the ____?
moon
At the moment of the first nuclear explosion, J.Robert Oppenheimer was reminded of _____.
Bhagavad Gita/Vishnu/Krishna
Test your knowledge of American history, including the concept of progress, the impact of settler colonialism, and the origins of the term genocide.
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