Study Guide and Terms

World History from 1500 (Spring 2012)

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. Not all of the terms are covered in the textbook: some will be dealt with only in lecture.

The tests will present a subset of 15 or so of these terms, from which you will select 10 terms on which to write answers. You will have to answer at least 1 or 2 terms from each chapter covered by the test (look closely at the test: it will tell you whether 1 or 2 terms is required; as a general rule of thumb, chapters with longer lists of terms will require 2).

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 a sentence or two from the text (don’t even bother with the glossary definitions: they are usually inadequate, and often don’t cover the right material), 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 most of that from the textbook, if you read it carefully, but it’s a lot easier if you listen to the lectures, too; however, some terms, mostly historical terminology, will not be in the textbook at all, because I am planning to discuss them in lecture. 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 (2/8)

Chapter 21. World Economy
British East India Company
Colonialism
Columbian Exchange
Early Modern
Imperialism
manufacturing
Mercantilism
Seven Years War
Vasco da Gama
Chapter 22. Transformation of the West, 1450–1750
Calvinism
Catholic Reformation
consumerism
Copernicus
Enlightenment
Isaac Newton
Johannes Gutenberg
Nationalism
Protestant Reformation
Renaissance Humanism
Scientific Method
Chapter 23. Rise of Russia
Absolute Monarchy
Catherine the Great
cossacks
Ivan III
Kennedy Thesis
Parliamentary Monarchy
Peter the Great
serfdom
Chapter 24. Early Latin America
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bourbon reforms
bureaucracy
conquistadors
Creoles
encomienda
haciendas
mestizos
Plantations
sociedad de castas
Treaty of Tordesillas
viceroyalities

Test #2 (3/2)

Chapter 25. Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Abolitionism
African Diaspora
Atlantic Slave Trade
Boers
Maroons
Triangular Trade
World Systems TheoryChapter 26. The Muslim Empires
Abbas the Great
Akbar
Chaldiran
Janissaries
Mughal Empire
Ottoman Empire
Sikhism
Suleyman the Magnificent

Chapter 27. Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change
Hongwu
Seven Years War
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
trading empires
Zheng He

Chapter 28. The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750–1914
Adam Smith
Baron de Montesquieu
Charles Darwin
Congress of Vienna
conservativism
corporations
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment
French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
French Revolution
industrialization
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
Karl Marx
liberalism
Maximilien Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
nationalism
socialism
Thomas Hobbes
US Declaration of Independence
Voltaire

Test #3 (3/28)

Chapter 29. Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order
Balkan nationalism
Civilizing mission
Lord Charles Cornwallis
Manifest Destiny
Maori
Monroe Doctrine
New Imperialism
Partition of Africa
settlement colonies
tropical dependencies
Unequal Treaties
White Man’s Burden
Zulu
Chapter 30. The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830–1920
Benito Juárez
caudillos
centralists
Creoles
dependency theory
Dom João VI
Domingo F. Sarmiento
federalists
Panama Canal
Porfirio Díaz
positivism
Simon Bolívar
Spanish-American War
Chapter 31. Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China
compradors
Mahdist Revolt
Mahmud II
Opium Wars
Self-Strengthening
Suez Canal
Sun Yat-sen
Taiping Rebellion
Tanzimat Reforms
Westernization
Young Turks
Chapter 32. Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West
Alexander II
Crimean War
Fukuzawa Yukichi
industrialization
intelligentsia
Iwasaki Yataro
Lenin
Meiji Restoration
pogroms
Russo-Japanese War
Sergei Witte
trans-Siberian railroad
zemstvoes

Test #4 (4/11)

Chapter 33. Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order
Armenian Genocide
Home Front
jingoism
League of Nations
mandates
Mohandas Gandhi
Mustafa Kemal, Ataturk
Nationalism
pan-Africanism
satyagraha
Schlieffen Plan
self-determination
Total War
trench warfare
Triple Entente
Versailles Treaties
Woodrow Wilson
Zionism
Chapter 34. The World between the Wars: Revolutions, Depression, and Authoritarian Response
Benito Mussolini
collectivization
Comintern
Fascism
Five-year Plans
Great Depression
Guernica
Guomindang
Joseph Stalin
Juan Perón
Long March
Mao Zedong
May Fourth Movement
Mexican Revolution
New Deal
Russian Revolution
Spanish Civil War
V. I. Lenin
Chapter 35. A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World Order
Algeria
apartheid
Atlantic Charter
atomic bombs
Battle of Britain
blitzkrieg
Decolonization
genocide
Holocaust
Israel
Jomo Kenyatta
Kwame Nkrumah
National Socialism
Total War
United Nations
Winston Churchill
Yalta Conference

Test #5 (5/2)

Chapter 36. Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War
Berlin Wall
Cold War
decolonization
De-Stalinization
European Union
feminism
Marshall Plan
Sputnik
superpowers
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
welfare state
Chapter 37. Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st Century
banana republics
drug trade
Fidel Castro
Gen. Augusto Pinochet
Hugo Chávez
liberation theology
migration
NAFTA
Zapatistas
Chapter 38. Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence
decolonization
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Green Revolution
Indira Gandhi
Muslim Brotherhood
Nelson Mandela
neocolonial economy
Chapter 39. Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-Building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
Deng Xiaoping
Great Leap Forward
Ho Chi Minh
Korean War
Mao Zedong
Red Guard
Yukio Mishima
Chapter 40. Power, Politics, and Conflict in World History, 1990–2010
disappeared
glasnost
Mikhail Gorbachev
perestroika
Ronald Reagan
Yugoslavia
Chapter 41. Globalization and Resistance
European Union
fundamentalism
Global Warming
globalization
International Monetary Fund
internet
multinational corporations
NAFTA
Seattle WTO Protests
terrorism
United Nations
World Bank