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 |
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 |