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Global Studies
Dr. Matthews
Section 1
Animism
Hunter-Gather Society
Paleontology
Griot
Epistemology
Freud’s Theory of civilization
Retributive Justice
Civilization
Mitochondrial Eve
Theory of Sympathetic Magic
Section 2
Code of Hammurabi
Castes (Varna)
Ren
Samsara
Mandate of Heaven
Legalism
Silk Roads
Delian League
Solon
Pericles
Section 3
Socratic wisdom
Aristotelian Mean
Civic Virtue
FINAL EXAM 2014 STUDY SHEET
Definitions
Hippocratic Oath
Plebian
Natural Law
Shari’a
Pharisee
Caliphate
Shi’ites
Natural Law
Feudalism
Spring Semester
Section 4
Pope Paul III’s Decree on
Indigenous Peoples
Middle Passage
Humanism
Machiavellian politics
Protestant Reformation
Calvinism
Protestant Ethic
Luther’s view of humanity
Indulgences
Section 5
Natural rights
Absolutism
Hundred Years War
Social Contract
General Will
Enlightenment
Factionalism
French Terror
Mechanization
Laissez-faire
Communism
Final 6 weeks
Industrial Revolution
Invisible Hand
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Social Darwinism
Boxer Rebellion
Balfour Declaration
Satyagraha
Long March
Fascist Party
Mandate System
Afrikaners
Suez Canal
NATO
Marshall Plan
Cold War
Ataturk
Chronology
Section 1
Written language
Holocene
Plows
Homo Habilis
Law
First Cave Paintings
Section 2
Shang Dynasty
Akkadian Dynasty
Peloponnesian War
Egyptian Middle Kingdom
Indus Valley Civilization
Hammurabi’s Code
Life of Confucius
Section 3
Paul spreads Christianity in
eastern Mediterranean
Establishment of the Roman
Empire
Umayyad Caliphate rules from
Damascus
Socrates
Fall Final
Last Roman Emperor
Constantine moves capital of
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Roman Empire to
Constantinople
Life of Muhammad
Crowning of Charlemagne
Spring - Section 4
First Stock Market
Gutenberg’s Printing Press
England outlaws International
Slave Trade Unification of
Spain
Martin Luther
Magna Carta
Berlin Conference
Section 5
Communism
Enlightenment
Hundred Years War
Steam Engine Perfected
French Terror
Congress of Vienna
Final 6 weeks
Cuban Missile Crisis
Balfour Declaration
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
VE Day
Korean War
Independence of India and
Pakistan
Founding People’s Republic of
China
Treaty of Versailles
Fall of Berlin Wall
Networks and Relations: Questions and Ideas
Early Modern Period
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What events prepare Europe for the Early Modern Period?
What are the changes and continuities from 1450 to 1750?
How did the world change from an Asian-centered economy to a global world economy?
How did Islamic Empires approach state building?
How does distance affect empire building?
o State-building in the Americas
How do forced labor systems reflect the time and society in which they take place?
How did intellectual developments in China and Europe shape their future courses?
o Example: Neo-Confucianism & Enlightenment
Ideas of the “Other”
The Black Plague
Renaissance
Capitalism & Exploration
Reform in Religion
The Rise of the State in Europe
o Divine Rights vs. Bill of Rights
7. Enlightenment
8. The Use of Labor – Slavery
9. Age of Absolutism
10. State Building in Europe, Asia and Africa
o China, Japan, Ottoman, Mughal
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Modern Period
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What events prepare Europe for the Modern Period?
What are the changes and continuities from 1750 - 1945?
How did revolutions in the Old and New World compare with one another?
o Examples: Haitian, French and American Revolution
How did industrialization reshape economic and social life?
o Example: Pollution, gender roles, reforms
What were the political, economic and social consequences of colonialism and imperialism in Africa and
Asia?
How did Middle Eastern thought and culture respond to the challenge of Western Imperialism?
How did East Asian countries respond to attempts at modernization?
o China & Japan (Opium War; Meiji Reforms)
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How did nationalism and socialism differ from each other?
o Examples: Marx vs. Bismarck
What were the global consequences of World War I & II?
o Examples: Totalitarianism/ Fascism/ Holocaust/Cold War
How and why did communism grow in China and Russia?
1. Age of Revolutions
2. Industrial Revolution: two, coal & oil, machine & chemical
3. Imperialism
o Imperialism in Africa and India
 Scramble for Africa/ Berlin Conference/ Colonial India
4. Nationalism
5. Modern European Ideologies
o Examples: Liberalism, Nationalism, Socialism, etc.
6. Reactions to Reform in the Middle East and East Asia
o Ottoman Empire, China & Japan
7. Decolonization & National Liberation:
o Movements in China, India, etc. (violent vs. non-violent path)
Sample Essay Questions
1. One of the recurring themes in a great deal of modern European and American thought is the notion that there
are fundamental differences between the culture and the politics of the East and the West, the Orient and
Occident. It is often argued that Western culture, religion, and politics, is more open, more civilized, and more
democratic than its Eastern counterparts.
Take a position on whether there are fundamental differences between Eastern and Western cultures, religions
and politics. Support your position with specific examples and illustrations from the ancient Eastern societies –
Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Nubian, Indian, Chinese and Greek – we have studied.
2. Until the middle of the twentieth century, the narratives of most world history have placed Europe squarely at
its center, attributing the best of world culture and government to the classical Greek and Roman civilizations.
To what extent is such a narrative justified and to what extent does it misstate the contributions of civilizations
from every part of the world to modern culture and government? Use examples from the civilizations we have
studied to support your position.
3. The idea of a “just war” – that there were conditions that must be met for the use of violence and war to be
moral and just – first emerged in post-classical Christian and Islamic thought.
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What were the specific conditions Augustine laid down for the use of violence and war to be
moral and just within the Christian tradition?
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What were the specific conditions that emerged from the Islamic tradition for the use of violence
and war to be moral and just?
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In your view, are the conditions developed in these traditions complete and adequate for the
consideration of the morality and justice of war? You may argue that these conditions are complete and
adequate as they stand, that there needs to be additional conditions, and/or that some conditions in the
Christian and Islamic tradition are inappropriate standards
4. Modern racism in Europe and the Americas took shape, in significant part, through the emergence of the
institution of modern slavery. What was the connection between racism and slavery? How did racism take
shape and change as slavery developed? In your view, does the ultimate cause of racism lie with economic
exploitation?
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5. Modern political theorists – from Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson, Madison and Rousseau to Kant, Robespierre, de
Gouges, Toussaint L’Ouverture and Burke – built their different conceptions of the good government on the
foundation of different ideas of human nature.
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Compare and contrast two of these theorists, showing how their different ideas of human nature
led to different conceptions of the good government.
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Identify the theorist who, in your judgment, provides the most compelling conception of a good
government, and explain why his or her conception is superior to that of the other theorists.
Final 6 weeks
1. Perhaps the most powerful counter-example to the idea that human history is progressing toward a more
civilized and more democratic future is the number of people killed in the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries.
A. What should the growing destructiveness of war and the ever increasing numbers of people killed lead
us to conclude, if anything, about human nature?
B. What is the relationship of war to political regimes, from the most democratic to the most authoritarian?
2. “Questions from A Worker Who Reads” – Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
And Babylon, many times demolished.
Who raised it up so many times?
Cæsar built the Gauls.
Did he not have a cook with him?
In what houses of gold-glittering Lima did the
builders live?
Where, when the evening that the great Wall of
China was finished, did the masses go?
Phillip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Years’ War.
Who else won it?
Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
Who entered them?
Over whom did the Cæsars triumph?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces
for its inhabitants?
Every ten years a great man.
Who paid the bill?
Even in fabled Atlantis the night the ocean engulfed
it,
So many reports.
So many questions.
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Using evidence from your studies this year, c in support of or in opposition to Bertolt Brecht’s
suggestion that while history is written from the point of view of “great men, it is actually ordinary men and
women who are responsible for the accomplishments and achievements of world history?
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To what extent were great men, on the one hand, and ordinary men and women, on the other hand,
responsible for the development of individual rights?
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To what extent were great men, on the one hand, and ordinary men and women, on the other hand,
responsible for the development of modern democratic government?
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