Midterm Study Guide - World History Since 1500 | GHIST 102, Study notes of World History

Download Midterm Study Guide - World History Since 1500 | GHIST 102 and more Study notes World History in PDF only on Docsity! Handout for the Midterm Exam (20 points) The exam takes place on Wed, February 23, during regular class time. You are allowed to bring one 5 x 3 index card to class with anything written on either side of the card. In order to use this card during the exam, you must follow these instructions: 1) Write your name in capital letters, last name first, on the upper left corner of the ruled side of the index card. Draw a box around your name. 2) What you write on the card must be hand-written. 3) The card must be your own work. You may not copy from anyone else’s card. Any failure to follow the above instructions regarding the cards may result in a failing grade. You will turn the cards in along with your exam. FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS CLOSELY: Students must bring one “Blue Book Examination Booklet” to class. It must be 8.5 x 7 inches in size and contain at least 8 leaves and 16 pages. If you don’t bring the proper booklet to class, you will receive a zero on the exam. Part One: Twenty multiple-choice questions (1/2 pt each), based on the following list of terms  Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the social contract  James I of England’s idea of kingship  The English Bill of Rights  Voltaire  The Enlightenment  Opium War  Confucianism and the Qing Dynasty  The Chinese royal observatory  The European scientific revolution  Empiricism  Galileo  the Jesuits (and their activity in Asia)  Martin Luther  the Mongols  Tobolsk (the city)  Emperor Akbar  Janissaries  John Thornton and the argument of African deculturation  Ogum (or Ogun or Ogou)  the Gullah  Sufism and coffee  the Ottoman Empire and the coffeehouse  the cacao tree  Caribbean sugar plantations  Vasco da Gama  the Dutch East India Company  the origins of the Atlantic slave trade  Tenochtitlan  the Americas and biological isolation  the Columbian Exchange  Potosi  Creoles and mestizos  the “single-whip” system  the Silk Road  Marco Polo  the Guanche  Mehmed II  the Safavid Empire  Ming Voyages  Mali Empire  a Eurocentric view of history  Russian expansion into Siberia  Wole Soyinka  Robinson Crusoe  Olaudah Equiano  The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen  Mary Wollstoncraft  triangular system of trade  King Affonso I  the Haitian Revolution Part Two: One Image Identification Question based on Images found in Blackboard on the Power Point titled “Midterm Exam Images” (2 points). You will have to identify one of two of the images, explaining in a paragraph (at least 4 sentences) what the image depicts in specific (not general) terms. You will also need to place the image in the proper century. An example of a poor answer for image nr. 1 is: “This depicts a clothed man and a naked woman with animals in the background.” Please note: it is your responsibility to make sure well in advance of the exam that you can access these images. If there is a problem, it is your responsibility to contact the professor well before February 23. Part Three: One Essay Question. You will have to write on one of the following essay questions, in no less than five blue-book pages, with 1 page equaling one side of paper (8 points). The best answers will present a sophisticated and complex argument, backed up by historical examples, historical details, and historical information, drawing upon the lectures AND readings. 1) Evaluate this statement and craft an argument for or against it: During early modern times (1400s to about 1700), it became clear that Europeans, and European culture, were destined to eventually dominate the world stage. 2) What explains the relatively ease with which Europeans conquered the Americas in the late 15th and early 16th centuries? A strong answer will discuss multiple factors. 3) Traditionally, historians have argued that influences flowed out of Europe, rather than the reverse: that Europeans changed non-western cultures and societies as a result of increasing cross-cultural interactions that began in the late 1400s, but that Europeans and European societies were not dramatically changed themselves by the outside world that they came into contact with during the early modern age (1400s-1700s). Assess the merits of this more traditional argument, and marshal evidence from the course to either support or contest it.