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Chapter 14: Economic Transformations (due 12/06/2016)
1. What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce?
2. To what extent did the Portuguese realize their own goals in the Indian Ocean?
3. How did the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and British initiatives in Asia differ from one another?
4. To what extent did the British and Dutch trading companies change the societies they encountered in Asia?
5. What was the world historical importance of the silver trade
6. Describe the impact of the fur trade on North American native societies.
7. How did the North American and Siberian fur trades differ from one another? What did they have in common?
8. What was distinctive about the Atlantic slave trade? What did it share with other patterns of slave owning and
slave trading?
9. What explains the rise of the Atlantic slave trade?
10. What roles did Europeans and Africans play in the unfolding of the Atlantic slave trade?
11. In what different ways did the Atlantic slave trade transform African societies?
Define:
1. Indian Ocean commercial network
2. trading post empire
3. Philippines (Spanish)
4. British/Dutch East India companies
5. Tokugawa Shogunate
6. Silver drain
7. Potosi
8. soft gold
9. African diaspora
10. Benin/Dahomey
11. Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
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Chapter 15: Cultural Transformations (due 12/12/2015)
1.
In what ways did the Protestant Reformation transform European society, culture and politics?
2.
How was European imperial expansion related to the spread of Christianity?
3.
In what ways was European Christianity assimilated into Native American cultures of Spanish America?
4.
Why were missionary efforts to spread Christianity so much less successful in China than in Spanish America?
5.
What accounts for the continued spread of Islam in the early modern era and for the emergence of reform or
renewal movements within the Islamic world?
6.
What kinds of cultural changes occurred in China and India during the early modern era?
7.
Why did the scientific revolution occur in Europe rather than in China or the Islamic world?
8.
What was revolutionary about the scientific revolution?
9.
In what ways did the Enlightenment challenge older patterns of European thinking?
10.
How did 19th century developments in the sciences challenge the faith of the Enlightenment?
11.
In what ways was European science received in the major civilizations of Asia in the early modern era?
Define:
1.
Protestant Reformation:
2.
Catholic Counter-Reformation:
3.
Taki Onqoy:
4.
Ursula de Jesus:
5.
Jesuits in China:
6.
Wahhabi Islam:
7.
Kaozheng
8.
Mirabai:
9.
Sikhism:
10.
Copernicus:
11.
Newton:
12.
European Enlightenment:
13.
Voltaire:
14.
Condorcet and the idea of progress
Name___________________________________________________________________ Due 12/19/2016
Chapter 16: Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes 1750-1914
1.
In what ways did the ideas of the Enlightenment contribute to the Atlantic revolutions?
2.
What was revolutionary about the American Revolution, and what was not?
3.
How did the French Revolution differ from the American Revolution?
4.
What was distinctive about the Haitian Revolution, both in world history generally and in the history of Atlantic
revolutions?
5.
How were the Spanish American revolutions shaped by the American, French and Haitian revolutions that
happened earlier?
6.
What accounts for the end of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century?
7.
How did the end of slavery affect the lives of the former slaves?
8.
What accounts for the growth of nationalism as a powerful political and personal identity in the nineteenth
century?
9.
What were the achievements and limitations of nineteenth-century feminism?
Define:
1.
North American Revolution:
2.
French Revolution:
3.
Declaration of the Rights of man and Citizen:
4.
Napoleon Bonaparte:
5.
Haitian Revolution:
6.
Spanish American revolutions:
7.
abolitionist movement:
8.
nationalism:
9.
Vindication of Rights of Women:
10.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
11.
maternal feminism:
12.
Kartini:
Name_______________________________________________________________________ Due 01/02/2016
Chapter 17: Revolutions of Industrialization
1.
In what respects did the roots of the Industrial Revolution lie within Europe? In what ways did that
transformation have global roots?
2.
2. What was distinctive about Britain that may help to explain its status as the breakthrough point of the
industrial Revolution?
3.
How did the Industrial Revolution transform British society?
4.
How did Britain’s middle class change during the nineteenth century?
5.
How did Karl Marx understand the Industrial Revolution? In what ways did his ideas have an impact in the
Industrializing world of the nineteenth century?
6.
What were the differences between industrialization in the United States and that in Russia?
7.
Why did Marxist socialism not take root in the United States?
8.
What factors contributed to the making of a revolutionary situation in Russia by the beginning of the twentieth
century?
9.
In what ways and with what impact was Latin America linked to the global economy of the nineteenth century?
10.
Did Latin America follow or diverge from the historical path of Europe during the nineteenth century?
Define:
1.
Steam engine:
2.
Indian cotton textiles:
3.
Middle-class values:
4.
Lower middle class:
5.
Ellen Johnston:
6.
Karl Marx
7.
Labour Party:
8.
socialism in the United States:
9.
Progressives:
10.
Russian Revolution of 1905:
11.
Caudillos:
12.
Latin American export boom:
13.
Mexican Revolution:
14.
dependent development: