Study Terms and Tests

These terms will be an important component of our daily discussions. They will also, perhaps more importantly, be the list from which the tests are drawn.

The answers I’m looking for have three important components:

Definition: Basic information about what the person did or what the event involved or what the term means.

Context: What country or region, what time period does this fit into? What else is happening around this term that’s important to know? What other people or events or concepts play a role?

Significance: Why is this an important person or event or concept? What does this change about the world, and what comes after this that couldn’t have happened without it?

Definition alone, which is what you get if you memorize the textbook glossary or a sentence or two from the text, gets you up to about a C, maybe. Context gets you to B-range. You need all three to make an A. (All of this assumes that you’re getting it right, of course.) You can get all that from the textbook, if you read it carefully, but it’s a lot easier if you listen to the lectures, too. Your answer need not be limited to the material in a single chapter: many names and terms and processes will appear in multiple chapters.

Section 1: Test 2/13

Chapter 15

Aztecs
chivalry
fixed-winds
humanism
imperialism
Incas
Ivan the Great
Mali
monsoons
nationalism
Ottomans
Renaissance
Timur the Lame
Vasco da Gama
world system
Zheng He

Chapter 16

Akbar
conquistadores
country trades
Gujarat
imperialism
joint-stock company
Mughal
Native Americans
Netherlands
pepper
Siberia
Suleiman the Magnificent
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
treasure fleets

Chapter 17

beaver
coal
Columbian Exchange
influenza
land surveys
maize
Manchu
mestizos
Military Revolution
slave labor
smallpox
sugar cane
sweet potato
tobacco
weeds

Chapter 18

Columbus
confraternities
Council of Trent
Dalai Lama
empiricism
Francis Bacon
Inquisition
Isaac Newton
Jesuits
jihad
Martin Luther
millenarianism
Nicolaus Copernicus
René Descartes
schism
Sikhism
Sufi
witchcraft

Section 2: Test 3/11

Chapter 19

creole
Dahomey
Janissaries
Jean Bodin
law of nations
Manchus
mandarins
maroons
Mughal dynasty
Niccolo Machiavelli
nuclear family
Peter the Great
Qizilbash
Queen Nzinga
Safavids
sovereignty
Topkapi palace

Chapter 20

botanical gardens
David Ricardo
industrialization
inoculation
James Cook
Marquis de Condorcet
monocultures
Neo Europes
opium
quinine
scurvy
steam power
Thomas Malthus
urbanization

Chapter 21
Alessandro Malaspina
American Revolution
Brazil
creolism
Dutch East Indies
juntas
Marathas
overseas Chinese
Qianlong Emperor
Robert Clive
Seven Years’ War
Sioux
Thomas Jefferson
Wahhabism
Xinjiang
Chapter 22
Adam Smith
anti-clericalism
Baron de Montesquieu
Catherine the Great
Denis Diderot
Edmund Burke
Encyclopedia
French Revolution
George Friedrich Handel
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Immanuel Kant
James Cook
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
laissez-faire
Napoleon Bonaparte
noble savages
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Romanticism
Voltaire

Section 3: Test 4/10

Chapter 23
Andrew Carnegie
canned foods
fossil fuels
Homestead Act
margarine
Mehmet Ali
railroads
refrigeration
Samuel Smiles
self-strengthening
specialization
steamships
telegraph
total war
Chapter 24
abolition
Arts and Crafts
compulsory education
coolies
economies of scale
factories
Haiti
Karl Marx
new rich
Oshio Heihachiro
palm-oil
paternalism
philanthropy
proletariat
socialists
urban planning
Chapter 25
Belgian Congo
business imperialism
Charles Darwin
civilizing mission
Comte de Gobineau
Ethiopia
machine guns
Maori wars
Monroe Doctrine
Most Favored Nation
Opium Wars
racism
Scramble for Africa
Social Darwinism
South Africa
Trail of Tears
Chapter 26
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alfred Dreyfus
anti-semitism
constitutionalism
Ethiopia
Jeremy Bentham
Johann Most
John Stuart Mill
José Rizal
Karl Marx
Kulturkampf
public sphere
Secularism
social welfare
US Civil War
Westernization

Section 4: Test 5/6

Chapter 27

Albert Einstein
cultural relativism
Edwin Hubble
Ernest Rutherford
existentialism
futurism
genetics
humanism
Kurt Gödel
Margaret Mead
Noam Chomsky
paleoanthropology
penicillin
pragmatism
quantum mechanics
Sigmund Freud
surrealism
Werner Heisenberg
William James

Chapter 28

Adolf Hitler
atomic bombs
Benito Mussolini
Cold War
corporatism
decolonization
fascism
First World War
Gamal Abdel Nasser
John Maynard Keynes
Josef Stalin
League of Nations
Mohandas Gandhi
nationalism
Pearl Harbor
Second World War
self-determination
Soviet Union
totalitarianism
trench warfare
Versailles Treaty
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Woodrow Wilson

Chapter 29
communism
counter-colonization
Cultural Revolution
European Union
fundamentalism
genocide
globalization
Great Depression
Holocaust
human rights
individualism
internet
Josef Stalin
Liberation theology
Mao Zedong
Marshall Plan
multiculturalism
Négritude
secularism
Sputnik
terrorism
United Nations
Chapter 30
conservation
consumerism
deforestation
desertification
environmentalism
ethnobotany
feminism
futurism
genetically modified organisms
green revolution
greenhouse effect
HIV/AIDS
obesity
public health
renewable energy
Walt Disney