dataset_name: high_school_world_history
description: The following are multiple choice questions (with answers) about high
  school world history.
fewshot_config:
  sampler: first_n
  samples:
  - question: "This question refers to the following information.\n\"At least one of\
      \ the [world's] societies would have to somehow enormously increase its productivity\
      \ [in order to achieve global hegemony]. That quantum jump would have to be\
      \ made before the various scientific, technological, agricultural, and industrial\
      \ revolutions on which our post-quantum-leap world rests. It could only be accomplished\
      \ by exploiting the ecosystems, mineral resources, and human assets of whole\
      \ continents outside the lands of the society making the jump. Western Europe\
      \ did just that by means of its brutality and guns and, more important, by geographical\
      \ and ecological luck.\"\nCopyright \xA9 2015 Cambridge University Press.\n\
      Alfred Crosby, historian, Ecological Imperialism, 2004\nThe \"quantum jump\"\
      \ mentioned in the passage most directly contributed to which of the following\
      \ developments in the period 1450\u20131750 C.E.?\n(A) A breakdown in trade\
      \ routes through the collapse of the established state structure (B) An increase\
      \ in the population of the world through more plentiful supplies of food (C)\
      \ The spread of Chinese and Indian belief systems across the world (D) An increase\
      \ in social unrest"
    target: Let's think step by step. We refer to Wikipedia articles on world history
      for help. The "quantum jump" mentioned in the passage refers to the conquest
      of the New World and the Columbian Exchange. Choice (A) and (C) did not happen
      in history. Choice (C) refers to the human assets. The answer is (B).
  - question: "This question refers to the following information.\n\"The struggle against\
      \ neo-colonialism is not aimed at excluding the capital of the developed world\
      \ from operating in less developed countries. It is aimed at preventing the\
      \ financial power of the developed countries being used in such a way as to\
      \ impoverish the less developed.\nNon-alignment, as practiced by Ghana and many\
      \ other countries, is based on co-operation with all States whether they be\
      \ capitalist, socialist or have a mixed economy. Such a policy, therefore, involves\
      \ foreign investment from capitalist countries, but it must be invested in accordance\
      \ with a national plan drawn up by the government of the non-aligned State with\
      \ its own interests in mind. The issue is not what return the foreign investor\
      \ receives on his investments\u2026The question is one of power. A State in\
      \ the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny.\"\nKwame Nkrumah,\
      \ Neo-Colonialism, 1965\nWhich of the following provides the best context for\
      \ Nkrumah's writings?\n(A) The Industrial Revolution (B) Decolonization (C)\
      \ Regional Free Trade Associations (D) Autarky"
    target: Let's think step by step. We refer to Wikipedia articles on world history
      for help. The passage expresses a point that the successful fight against neo-colonialism
      were in danger and the newly independent nations like Ghana may be re-colonized
      via financial power of the developed countries. The answer is (B).
  - question: "This question refers to the following information.\n\"Indeed, as both\
      \ the fatwas of distinguished [scholars] who base their opinion on reason and\
      \ tradition alike and the consensus of the Sunni community agree that the ancient\
      \ obligation of extirpation, extermination, and expulsion of evil innovation\
      \ must be the aim of our exalted aspiration, for \"Religious zeal is a victory\
      \ for the Faith of God the Beneficent\"; then, in accordance with the words\
      \ of the Prophet (Peace upon him!) \"Whosoever introduces evil innovation into\
      \ our order must be expelled\" and \"Whosoever does aught against our order\
      \ must be expelled,\" action has become necessary and exigent\u2026\"\nLetter\
      \ from Ottoman Sultan Selim I to Safavid Shah Ismail I, 1514\nThe letter from\
      \ Selim I is most clearly an example of which of the following?\n(A) The maintenance\
      \ of military supremacy at all costs (B) Expanding tensions between religious\
      \ sects (C) Factors that brought about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (D)\
      \ Peacemaking efforts among the Islamic empires"
    target: Let's think step by step. We refer to Wikipedia articles on world history
      for help. The passage is an example of expanding tensions between Selim and
      Ismail. In the passage the Selim references the fatwa and the consensus of the
      Sunni community to against whosoever introduces evil. The answer is (B).
  - question: 'This question refers to the following information.

      "The real grievance of the worker is the insecurity of his existence; he is
      not sure that he will always have work, he is not sure that he will always be
      healthy, and he foresees that he will one day be old and unfit to work. If he
      falls into poverty, even if only through a prolonged illness, he is then completely
      helpless, exam_ins to his own devices, and society does not currently recognize
      any real obligation towards him beyond the usual help for the poor, even if
      he has been working all the time ever so faithfully and diligently. The usual
      help for the poor, however, leaves a lot to be desired, especially in large
      cities, where it is very much worse than in the country."

      Otto von Bismarck, 1884

      Otto von Bismarck likely made this speech in reaction to which of the following
      issues?

      (A) Social acceptance of child labor (B) Declining life expectancy in Germany
      (C) Criticisms of German trade tariffs (D) Negative effects attributed to industrial
      capitalism'
    target: Let's think step by step. We refer to Wikipedia articles on world history
      for help. The passage talks about the grievance of the work under the industrial
      capitalism. The answer is (D).
  - question: "This question refers to the following information.\nHe contains all works\
      \ and desires and all perfumes and all tastes. He enfolds the whole universe\
      \ and in silence is loving to all. This is the Spirit that is in my heart, this\
      \ is Brahman. To him I shall come when I go beyond this life, and to him will\
      \ come he who has faith and doubts not.\n\u2014The Upanishads, India, c. 1000\
      \ BCE\nTo which religion does the speaker most likely belong?\n(A) Hinduism\
      \ (B) Buddhism (C) Shintoism (D) Zoroastrianism"
    target: 'Let''s think step by step. We refer to Wikipedia articles on world history
      for help. Brahman refers to the ultimate reality of all things in the Hindu
      religion. In contrast, Buddhism does not have a concept of supreme God. The
      answer is (A).'
group: mmlu_flan_cot_fewshot_humanities
include: _mmlu_flan_cot_fewshot_template_yaml
task: mmlu_flan_cot_fewshot_high_school_world_history
