Study Terms

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.

Test 1 (9/22) – 87 terms

Chapter 15
Aztec Empire
Christopher Columbus
Columbian exchange
Conquistadors
Creoles
Encomienda system
Florentine Codex
Humanism
Inca Empire
Johannes Gutenberg
Mestizos/memlucos
Nahua
Renaissance
Treaty of Tordesillas
Chapter 16
Atlantic Slave Trade
Confucianism
Dutch East India Co.
Emperor Sejong
Examination system
Joint-Stock Companies
Martin Luther
Matteo Ricci
Ming Dynasty
Mughal Dynasty
Reformation
Sikhism
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Chapter 17
Abbas I
Absolutism
English Bill of Rights
English Civil War
Janissaries
Louis XIV
Mercantilism
Ottoman Empire
Peace of Augsburg
Peace of Westphalia
Peter the Great
Puritans
Romanov Dynasty
Safavid Dynasty
Süleyman
Thirty Years’ War
Chapter 18
Encomienda
Haciendas
Maroons
Mestizos/Métis
New England
Plantations
Potosí
Québec
Quilombos
Repartimiento
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Syncretism
Viceroyalties
Virginia Colony
Chapter 19
Abolitionism
Act for the Abolition of Slave Trade
Asante and Dahomey
Atlantic Plantation System
Cod
Kimpa Vita/Dona Beatriz
Manumission
Maroon Communities
Mulattoes
Olaudah Equiano
Santeria
Seven Years’ War
Songhai Empire
Triangular trade
Chapter 20
Aurangzeb
Bushido
Catherine the Great
Cossacks
Cotton
Emperor Kangxi
Emperor Qianlong
Footbinding
Joseph Francois Dupleix
Lord Charles Cornwallis
Macartney Mission
Qing Dynasty
Robert Clive
Seclusion Edicts
Tibet
Treaty of Nerchinsk
Yoshimune

Test 2 (10/29) – 95 terms

Chapter 21
Adam Smith
Baron de Montesquieu
Carl Linnaeus
Encyclopedia
Enlightened despots
Enlightenment
Great Trigonometrical Survey
Isaac Newton
James Cook
John Locke
Joseph Banks
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Nicolaus Copernicus
Problem of Longitude
René Descartes
Sir Francis Bacon
Thomas Hobbes
Chapter 22
American Revolution
Caudillos
Congress of Vienna
Constitution of the United States
Declaration of Independence
Estates General
Jacobins
Juntas
Louis XVI
Maximilien Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Simòn Bolìvar
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Chapter 23
Charles Darwin
Communism
Conservativism
Crimean War
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Industrial Revolution
James Watt
John Stuart Mill
Josiah Wedgewood
Karl Marx
Liberalism
Louis Napoleon
Nationalism
Otto Von Bismarck
Reform Bill of 1832
Romanticism
Social Darwinism
Socialism
Tanzimat Reforms
Tsar Alexander II
Utilitarianism
Chapter 24
Boxer Rebellion
Empress Ci Xi
Fukuzawa Yūkichi
Indian National Congress
Indian Revolt of 1857
Meiji Restoration
Opium War
Rammohun Roy
Russo-Japanese War
Self-Strengthening Movement
Sino-Japanese War
Taiping Rebellion
Treaty of Nanjing
Zaibatsu
Chapter 25
Abraham Lincoln
Benito Juárez
Confederations of Canada
Gilded Age
Indian Act of 1876
Indian Removal Act
Porfirio Diáz
Racism
Reconstruction
Responsible Government
Seneca Falls Convention
Sir John A. MacDonald
Sitting Bull
US Civil War
Chapter 26
Berlin Conference
Cecil Rhodes
Chulalongkorn
David Livingstone
Extraterritoriality
Federation of Indochina
King Leopold II of Belgium
Mission civilisatrice
Native Land Act of 1913
New Imperialism
Rubber
Shaka
Suez Canal
Unequal Treaties
White Man’s Burden

Test 3 (12/3) – 95 terms

Chapter 27
Balfour Declaration
Joseph Stalin
League of Nations
Mandate System
Mexican Revolution
Paris Peace Conference
Russian Revolution
Submarines
Sun Yat-sen
Total War
Trench Warfare
V.I. Lenin
Versailles Treaty
Weimar Republic
Woodrow Wilson
World War One
Chapter 28
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Collectivization
Fascism
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Great Depression
Invasion of Manchuria
John Maynard Keynes
Joseph Stalin
Lebensraum
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mustafa Kemal
Nuremburg Laws
Rape of Nanjing
Satyagraha
Spanish Civil War
Chapter 29
Atlantic Charter
Battle of Stalingrad
blitzkrieg
Bretton Woods Conference
Charles de Gaulle
Cold War
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Holocaust
Marshall Plan
Pearl Harbor
Quit India
Siege of Leningrad
Total War
Truman Doctrine
United Nations
Vichy Regime
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Winston Churchill
Chapter 30
Ahmed Sukarno
Cuban Missile Crisis
Decolonization
Détente
Domino Theory
Ernesto Guevara
Fidel Castro
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Great Leap Forward
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Ho Chi Minh
Hungarian Uprising
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mao Zedong
Prague Spring
Salvador Allende
Suez Crisis
Superpower
Chapter 31
Apartheid
Augusto Pinochet
Ayatollah Khomeini
Boris Yeltsin
Deng Xiaoping
European Union
Globalization
Islamists
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nelson Mandela
North American Free Trade Association
Osama bin Laden
Ronald Reagan
Rwandan Genocide
Sandinistas
Solidarity
Soweto Uprising
Structural Adjustment
Tiananmen Massacre
Chapter 32
Bharatiya Janata Party
Globalization
HIV/AIDS
Human Rights
Iraq War
Mercosur
Microfinance
One Child Policy
Outsourcing
September 11, 2001
World Trade Organization