Download 5 Problems on Modern World Civilizations Since 1500 - Final Exam | HIST 1031 and more Exams World History in PDF only on Docsity! Modern World Civilizations History 1031 Professor Gross Spring, 2011 Final Examination Advance Copy Exam time: As indicated on course syllabus Exam date: Tuesday, 3 May 2011 You must bring with you at least two blank blue books for the exam. You must take the exam on the specified date or you will receive an F for the course. At the time of the exam you will be asked to answer questions divided into four parts. Your essays should be thorough answers that integrate primary, secondary sources, class discussions and lectures. Each essay should, therefore, make use of the source book and secondary text: 1) your arguments should be supported with discussion of relevant documents in the Source Reader, and 2) your ideas should be supported with specific facts, for example approximate dates and locations. Your essay should be a coherent and unified answer. Part I. Answer the following question (40 minutes): During the Industrial Revolution in England, contemporaries referred to the "Condition of England Question." What was the “Condition of England Question”? What were the responses of Samuel Smiles, Edwin Chadwick, Engels and Marx, and the Great Charter to the Condition of England Question? Who do you think best understood the realities of industrialization and offered the most realistic responses? Why? Part II. Answer the following question (30 minutes): 1. What was “new” about the "new imperialism"? What specific kinds of rationalizations did Europeans offer for the establishment of their empires in Asia and Africa? What kinds of counter-arguments were developed in response to imperialism? Be sure to discuss relevant sources. Part III. Answer ONE of these questions (30 minutes): 1. “In Asian countries between 1880 and WWII, nationalist leaders like Sayyid Jamal ad Din al-Afghani in Iran, Sun Yat-sen in China and Mohandas Gandhi in India led movements to throw off the yoke of western imperialism. In order to awaken the power of nationalism, these leaders advocated distinctive movements rooted in their countries’ own unique cultures and histories.” Comment on this statement, using the relevant documents. OR 2. Why was the war that erupted in Europe in1914 different than what Europeans had anticipated or imagined? (Be sure to include Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel.) In what ways did the experience of war change European society and culture, including the lives of men in the trenches and women on the home front?
