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 |