praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Modern_history
Context: The Qing dynasty (1644–1911) was founded after the fall of the Ming, the last Han Chinese dynasty, by the Manchus. The Manchus were formerly known as the Jurchens. When Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels in 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor, the last Ming emperor, committed suicide. The Manchus then allied with former Ming general Wu Sangui and seized control of Beijing, which became the new capital of the Qing dynasty. The Mancus adopted the Confucian norms of traditional Chinese government in their rule of China proper. Schoppa, the editor of The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History argues, "A date around 1780 as the beginning of modern China is thus closer to what we know today as historical 'reality'. It also allows us to have a better baseline to understand the precipitous decline of the Chinese polity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."

question: What was founded after the fall of the Ming? 

answer: The Qing dynasty

question: The Qing dynasty lasted through what time period? 

answer: 1644–1911

question: What were the Manchus originally known as? 

answer: the Jurchens

question: Why did the last Ming Emperor commit suicide? 

answer: Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels

question: Who became allies with the Manchus to seize control over Beijing? 

answer: former Ming general Wu Sangui

question: The Qing dynasty formed after what event? 

answer: after the fall of the Ming

question: During what time period did the Qing dynasty rule? 

answer: 1644–1911

question: What were the Manchus originally named? 

answer: Jurchens

question: Who was Beijing captured by in 1644? 

answer: Li Zicheng's peasant rebels

question: Who did the Manchus make an Ally with to seize control of Beijing? 

answer: former Ming general Wu Sangui
Title: Modern_history
Context: Society in the Japanese "Tokugawa period" (Edo society), unlike the shogunates before it, was based on the strict class hierarchy originally established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The daimyo, or lords, were at the top, followed by the warrior-caste of samurai, with the farmers, artisans, and traders ranking below. In some parts of the country, particularly smaller regions, daimyo and samurai were more or less identical, since daimyo might be trained as samurai, and samurai might act as local lords. Otherwise, the largely inflexible nature of this social stratification system unleashed disruptive forces over time. Taxes on the peasantry were set at fixed amounts which did not account for inflation or other changes in monetary value. As a result, the tax revenues collected by the samurai landowners were worth less and less over time. This often led to numerous confrontations between noble but impoverished samurai and well-to-do peasants, ranging from simple local disturbances to much bigger rebellions. None, however, proved compelling enough to seriously challenge the established order until the arrival of foreign powers.

question: What was society based on during the Tukugawa period? 

answer: strict class hierarchy

question: Strict class hierarchy was established by who? 

answer: Toyotomi Hideyoshi

question: What group were considered to be at the top of the Strict Class Hierarchy? 

answer: The daimyo, or lords

question: How were taxes charged during the Tukugawa period? 

answer: set at fixed amounts

question: What effect did  having taxes charged at a fixed amount have on it's revenue? 

answer: tax revenues collected by the samurai landowners were worth less and less over time.

question: What is the Tokugawa period also known as? 

answer: Edo society

question: What was society in  the Tokugawa period based in? 

answer: strict class hierarchy

question: What group was considered at the top of the Strict Class Society? 

answer: The daimyo, or lords,

question: What effect did the way the taxes were charged have on it's revenue. 

answer: revenues collected by the samurai landowners were worth less and less over time.

question: How were taxes charged in the Tokugawa period? 

answer: set at fixed amounts
Title: Modern_history
Context: On the Indian subcontinent, the Mughal Empire ruled most of India in the early 18th century. The "classic period" ended with the death and defeat of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 by the rising Hindu Maratha Empire, although the dynasty continued for another 150 years. During this period, the Empire was marked by a highly centralized administration connecting the different regions. All the significant monuments of the Mughals, their most visible legacy, date to this period which was characterised by the expansion of Persian cultural influence in the Indian subcontinent, with brilliant literary, artistic, and architectural results. The Maratha Empire was located in the south west of present-day India and expanded greatly under the rule of the Peshwas, the prime ministers of the Maratha empire. In 1761, the Maratha army lost the Third Battle of Panipat which halted imperial expansion and the empire was then divided into a confederacy of Maratha states.

question: Who ruled most of India in the early 18th century? 

answer: Mughal Empire

question: How did the "Classic Period" end? 

answer: the death and defeat of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707

question: Who was behind the death off Emperor Aurangzeb? 

answer: Hindu Maratha Empire

question: Where was the The Maratha Empire centralized? 

answer: south west of present-day India

question: What happened when the  Maratha Army lost the third battle of Panipat? 

answer: the empire was then divided into a confederacy of Maratha states.

question: Who ruled most of India in the 18 century? 

answer: Mughal Empire

question: What event ended the "classic period"? 

answer: the death and defeat of Emperor Aurangzeb

question: What caused the death of Emperor Auranzeb?  

answer: the rising Hindu Maratha Empire,

question: Where was the Maratha Empire centralized? 

answer: south west of present-day India

question: What caused the Maratha Empire to split in 1761? 

answer: the Maratha army lost the Third Battle of Panipat
Title: Modern_history
Context: The development of New Imperialism saw the conquest of nearly all eastern hemisphere territories by colonial powers. The commercial colonization of India commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the British East India Company, in 1765, when the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar, or in 1772, when the Company established a capital in Calcutta, appointed its first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and became directly involved in governance.

question: What did the development of new imperialism cause? 

answer: the conquest of nearly all eastern hemisphere territories by colonial powers.

question: When did the commercial colonization of India begin? 

answer: 1757

question: What happened n the battle of Plassey? 

answer: Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the British East India Company

question: When was the British East Company given the right to collect revenue? 

answer: 1765

question: What is the term used to describe the "Right to collect revenue"? 

answer: diwani
Title: Modern_history
Context: The Maratha states, following the Anglo-Maratha wars, eventually lost to the British East India Company in 1818 with the Third Anglo-Maratha War. The rule lasted until 1858, when, after the Indian rebellion of 1857 and consequent of the Government of India Act 1858, the British government assumed the task of directly administering India in the new British Raj. In 1819 Stamford Raffles established Singapore as a key trading post for Britain in their rivalry with the Dutch. However, their rivalry cooled in 1824 when an Anglo-Dutch treaty demarcated their respective interests in Southeast Asia. From the 1850s onwards, the pace of colonization shifted to a significantly higher gear.

question: In what year did the Maratha states lose to the British East Company? 

answer: 1818

question: What was the name of the war lost by the Maratha states in 1818? 

answer: the Third Anglo-Maratha War

question: How long did the British east Indian Company rule last after the war? 

answer: 1858

question: What caused the British east Indian Company rule to end? 

answer: the Indian rebellion of 1857 and consequent of the Government of India Act 1858

question: What did Britain establish in 1824? 

answer: Singapore as a key trading post
Title: Modern_history
Context: The Dutch East India Company (1800) and British East India Company (1858) were dissolved by their respective governments, who took over the direct administration of the colonies. Only Thailand was spared the experience of foreign rule, although, Thailand itself was also greatly affected by the power politics of the Western powers. Colonial rule had a profound effect on Southeast Asia. While the colonial powers profited much from the region's vast resources and large market, colonial rule did develop the region to a varying extent.

question: What dispatched of The Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company? 

answer: their respective governments

question: What country did not have to succumb to forign rule? 

answer: Thailand

question: Who also profited from Southeast Asia resources? 

answer: colonial powers
Title: Modern_history
Context: Many major events caused Europe to change around the start of the 16th century, starting with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the fall of Muslim Spain and the discovery of the Americas in 1492, and Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation in 1517. In England the modern period is often dated to the start of the Tudor period with the victory of Henry VII over Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Early modern European history is usually seen to span from the start of the 15th century, through the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century.

question: In what year did the fall of Constantinople happen?  

answer: 1453

question: When is the modern period dated in England? 

answer: Battle of Bosworth in 1485

question: Who was defeated by Henry Vll at the battle of Bosworth? 

answer: Richard III
Title: Modern_history
Context: Russia experienced territorial growth through the 17th century, which was the age of Cossacks. Cossacks were warriors organized into military communities, resembling pirates and pioneers of the New World. In 1648, the peasants of Ukraine joined the Zaporozhian Cossacks in rebellion against Poland-Lithuania during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, because of the social and religious oppression they suffered under Polish rule. In 1654 the Ukrainian leader, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, offered to place Ukraine under the protection of the Russian Tsar, Aleksey I. Aleksey's acceptance of this offer led to another Russo-Polish War (1654–1667). Finally, Ukraine was split along the river Dnieper, leaving the western part (or Right-bank Ukraine) under Polish rule and eastern part (Left-bank Ukraine and Kiev) under Russian. Later, in 1670–71 the Don Cossacks led by Stenka Razin initiated a major uprising in the Volga region, but the Tsar's troops were successful in defeating the rebels. In the east, the rapid Russian exploration and colonisation of the huge territories of Siberia was led mostly by Cossacks hunting for valuable furs and ivory. Russian explorers pushed eastward primarily along the Siberian river routes, and by the mid-17th century there were Russian settlements in the Eastern Siberia, on the Chukchi Peninsula, along the Amur River, and on the Pacific coast. In 1648 the Bering Strait between Asia and North America was passed for the first time by Fedot Popov and Semyon Dezhnyov.

question: When did Russia experience territorial growth? 

answer: the 17th century

question: The 17th century is also known as? 

answer: age of Cossacks.

question: Who joined the Cossacks in 1648? 

answer: peasants of Ukraine

question: Who are Cossacks? 

answer: warriors organized into military communities

question: Why dd the Peasants of Ukraine join the Cossacks? 

answer: in rebellion against Poland-Lithuania
Title: Modern_history
Context: Traditionally, the European intellectual transformation of and after the Renaissance bridged the Middle Ages and the Modern era. The Age of Reason in the Western world is generally regarded as being the start of modern philosophy, and a departure from the medieval approach, especially Scholasticism. Early 17th-century philosophy is often called the Age of Rationalism and is considered to succeed Renaissance philosophy and precede the Age of Enlightenment, but some consider it as the earliest part of the Enlightenment era in philosophy, extending that era to two centuries. The 18th century saw the beginning of secularization in Europe, rising to notability in the wake of the French Revolution.

question: What bridged the middle ages to the modern era? 

answer: European intellectual transformation

question: What is regarded as the start of modern philosophy?  

answer: The Age of Reason

question: What does the Age of Rationalism succeed?  

answer: Renaissance philosophy

question: What is 17th century philosophy also referred to as? 

answer: the Age of Rationalism

question: What did the beginning of the 18th century mark the beginning of in Europe?  

answer: secularization
Title: Modern_history
Context: The Age of Enlightenment is a time in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the 18th century in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority. Enlightenment gained momentum more or less simultaneously in many parts of Europe and America. Developing during the Enlightenment era, Renaissance humanism as an intellectual movement spread across Europe. The basic training of the humanist was to speak well and write (typically, in the form of a letter). The term umanista comes from the latter part of the 15th century. The people were associated with the studia humanitatis, a novel curriculum that was competing with the quadrivium and scholastic logic.

question: From where does the phrase humanist originate?  

answer: the 15th century

question: What is the basic training of a humanist? 

answer: speak well and write

question: Where did Enlightenment gain momentum? 

answer: Europe and America

question: What was the age of Enlightenment centered on? 

answer: the 18th century in which reason was advocated as the primary source and legitimacy for authority.

question: What were the studia humanitatis competing against? 

answer: quadrivium and scholastic logic.
Title: Modern_history
Context: Renaissance humanism took a close study of the Latin and Greek classical texts, and was antagonistic to the values of scholasticism with its emphasis on the accumulated commentaries; and humanists were involved in the sciences, philosophies, arts and poetry of classical antiquity. They self-consciously imitated classical Latin and deprecated the use of medieval Latin. By analogy with the perceived decline of Latin, they applied the principle of ad fontes, or back to the sources, across broad areas of learning.

question: What did renaissance humanism reference? 

answer: Latin and Greek classical texts

question: renaissance humanism was antagonistic to what? 

answer: scholasticism

question: What did renaissance humanism place an emphasis on? 

answer: accumulated commentaries
Title: Modern_history
Context: The quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns was a literary and artistic quarrel that heated up in the early 1690s and shook the Académie française. The opposing two sides were, the Ancients (Anciens) who constrain choice of subjects to those drawn from the literature of Antiquity and the Moderns (Modernes), who supported the merits of the authors of the century of Louis XIV. Fontenelle quickly followed with his Digression sur les anciens et les modernes (1688), in which he took the Modern side, pressing the argument that modern scholarship allowed modern man to surpass the ancients in knowledge.

question: What was the basis of the quarrel between the Ancients and the moderns? 

answer: literary and artistic

question: In what time period did the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns peak? 

answer: early 1690s

question: Moderns support the merits of whom? 

answer: authors of the century of Louis XIV. Fontenelle

question: What did Louis XIV believe about the modern man? 

answer: modern scholarship allowed modern man to surpass the ancients in knowledge.
Title: Modern_history
Context: The Scientific Revolution was a period when European ideas in classical physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other classical sciences were rejected and led to doctrines supplanting those that had prevailed from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages which would lead to a transition to modern science. This period saw a fundamental transformation in scientific ideas across physics, astronomy, and biology, in institutions supporting scientific investigation, and in the more widely held picture of the universe. Individuals started to question all manners of things and it was this questioning that led to the Scientific Revolution, which in turn formed the foundations of contemporary sciences and the establishment of several modern scientific fields.

question: What did the Scientific Revolution cause? 

answer: a transition to modern science

question: What s the Scientific Revolution? 

answer: a period when European ideas in classical physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other classical sciences were rejected

question: What did Scientific Revolution form? 

answer: several modern scientific fields.

question: What did the Scientific Revolution force people to do? 

answer: question all manners of things
Title: Modern_history
Context: The changes were accompanied by violent turmoil which included the trial and execution of the king, vast bloodshed and repression during the Reign of Terror, and warfare involving every other major European power. Subsequent events that can be traced to the Revolution include the Napoleonic Wars, two separate restorations of the monarchy, and two additional revolutions as modern France took shape. In the following century, France would be governed at one point or another as a republic, constitutional monarchy, and two different empires.

question: What happened to the king after the trial? 

answer: execution of the king

question: Who else was involved in the warfare? 

answer: every other major European power.

question: name an event that can be contributed to the revolution. 

answer: the Napoleonic Wars
Title: Modern_history
Context: The campaigns of French Emperor and General Napoleon Bonaparte characterized the Napoleonic Era. Born on Corsica as the French invaded, and dying suspiciously on the tiny British Island of St. Helena, this brilliant commander, controlled a French Empire that, at its height, ruled a large portion of Europe directly from Paris, while many of his friends and family ruled countries such as Spain, Poland, several parts of Italy and many other Kingdoms Republics and dependencies. The Napoleonic Era changed the face of Europe forever, and old Empires and Kingdoms fell apart as a result of the mighty and "Glorious" surge of Republicanism.

question: What characterized the Napoleonic Era? 

answer: The campaigns of French Emperor and General Napoleon Bonaparte

question: Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born? 

answer: Corsica

question: Where was Napoleon Bonaparte die?  

answer: St. Helena

question: Why were Europe's Empires and Kingdoms dispatched? 

answer: surge of Republicanism

question: From where did the French empire rule a large portion of Europe? 

answer: Paris
Title: Modern_history
Context: Italian unification was the political and social movement that annexed different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century. There is a lack of consensus on the exact dates for the beginning and the end of this period, but many scholars agree that the process began with the end of Napoleonic rule and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and approximately ended with the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, though the last città irredente did not join the Kingdom of Italy until after World War I.

question: What is Italian Unification? 

answer: social movement that annexed different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy

question: When did the Italian Unification occur? 

answer: in the 19th century

question: In what year do most  Scholars agree the Italian Unification ended? 

answer: 1871

question: In what year do most  Scholars agree the Italian Unification began? 

answer: 1815

question: After what event did the last citta irredente join Italy? 

answer: World War I.
Title: Modern_history
Context: Beginning the Age of Revolution, the American Revolution and the ensuing political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century saw the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrow the governance of the Parliament of Great Britain, and then reject the British monarchy itself to become the sovereign United States of America. In this period the colonies first rejected the authority of the Parliament to govern them without representation, and formed self-governing independent states. The Second Continental Congress then joined together against the British to defend that self-governance in the armed conflict from 1775 to 1783 known as the American Revolutionary War (also called American War of Independence).

question: What event did the American revolution cause? 

answer: British monarchy itself to become the sovereign United States of America.

question: How did the Thirteen Colonies become The United States Of America? 

answer: overthrow the governance of the Parliament of Great Britain, and then reject the British monarchy

question: Why did the United States form independent states? 

answer: the colonies first rejected the authority of the Parliament to govern them without representation

question: Who did the Second Continental Congress join together against? 

answer: the British

question: What is the armed conflict form 1775 to 1783 is known as? 

answer: American Revolutionary War
Title: Modern_history
Context: The American Revolution begun with fighting at Lexington and Concord. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. In June 1776, Benjamin Franklin was appointed a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence. Although he was temporarily disabled by gout and unable to attend most meetings of the Committee, Franklin made several small changes to the draft sent to him by Thomas Jefferson.

question: Where did the American Revolution start? 

answer: Lexington and Concord

question: What was issued on July 4, 1776? 

answer: Declaration of Independence

question: What did the Declaration Of Independence proclaim? 

answer: independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union.

question: What position was Ben Franklin appointed in 1776? 

answer: member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence.

question: What was Ben Franklin disabled by?  

answer: gout