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 15Aztecs |
Chapter 16Akbar |
Chapter 17beaver |
Chapter 18Columbus |
Section 2: Test 3/11
Chapter 19creole |
Chapter 20botanical gardens |
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 27Albert Einstein |
Chapter 28Adolf Hitler |
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 |