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WORLD HISTORY WORD WALL: “THE BIG 100” Anthony Salciccioli | Clarenceville High School | Grade 10 UNIT I TERMS- “FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD HISTORY: ERAS 1-3, BEGINNINGS TO 300 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE • How you perceive history- it’s value, it’s importance, it’s usage • The different sides of a story. Even though the event happened, people will see it differently HISTORICAL SCALE • Amount of detail you bring to a historical event • Changing your levels of history from personal, local, national, world • Placing yourself in different timeframes. Projecting your self in the past and future PRIMARY SOURCES • The most original, unbiased piece of information. • Allows us to think for ourselves, free from bias HOW TO ASSESS CLAIMS • Most important thing I can teach you as a social studies teacher. • 1. Intuition: (Hunch) • 2. Authority: (Should I listen to this person? Are they experts on the subject? • Logic: Does this make logical sense? • Evidence: This is what always should be sought out. SIX STEPS TO ARCHEOLOGY • • Archeology allows us to understand our human story by providing evidence on our distant past. More of a hard science, than social science • 1. Locate a site • 2. Map • 3. Excavate • 4. Screen • 5. Document • 6. Laboratory Analysis RACE • Biologically, there is no race. • We are all Homo Sapiens • There is significant difference in race sociologically. KINGDOM • A country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen. • These are ruled along hereditary lines and are not democratic nor meritbased. CIVILIZATION • A group of people that possess 7 criterion • 1. Cities- The engine of civilization • A group needs to have all 7 to be considered civilized. • 2. Advanced tools • 3. Social Classes • 4. Specialized Jobs • 5. Writing • 6. Organized Religion • 7. Government and Laws • Other peoples existed that did not meet these 7. EMPIRE • An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress. • “Conquer and Expand” HISTORICAL BIAS • A particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned. Whether favorable, or unfavorable, it is a belief that not objective. CITY-STATE • A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. • Greece had over 1,000, so they were able to experiment with various ways of governance. HEGEMONY • Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others. CULTURAL DIFFUSION • Cultural diffusion is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another. The mixing of world cultures through different ethnicities, religions and nationalities. It has increased with advanced communication, transportation and technology. • THE MORE PEOPLE YOU MIX WITH, THE MORE YOU LEARN. DIASPORA • The dispersion of any people from their original homeland. • This has happened to groups that have faced push migrations. PUSH VS. PULL MIGRATIONS • Reasons why people leave where they are. • Push factors are negative. • Pull are positive. HISTORIOGRAPHY • The study of historical writing. • We evaluate whether the information comes from a good or bad source. • Some sources are highly biased, so it validates the usage of primary sources. SYNCRETISM • The combining or attempted combining of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. • This is most evident in the Chinese belief systems. COGNITIVE DISSONANCE • Feeling experienced when evidence presented violates what we were taught. • Part of process in finding evidence related to historical event. ETHNOCENTRISM • Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture. • Belief that, “one’s people” are superior to another. HUNTING AND GATHERING • Ways Homo Sapiens lived for millennia • Small groups that worked collectively • Was very effective • Began to go away 10,000 years ago when man shifted to Agrarian ways • Very few people on earth live this way now. AGRARIAN SOCIETIES • Began when mankind filled up the world. • It took man roughly 170,000 years to fill world from East Africa to Southern South America • Sedentary populations led to major changes. CITIES • Engines of Civilization • Emerged when Agrarian societies stayed sedentary for long periods of time • Where cities emerge give perspective to world hegemony throughout history. RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS • These were the first four civilizations in history • They emerged in good climates, along rivers • The first four were Sumer (Tigris and Euphrates), Egypt (Nile), Indus Valley (Indus), China (Yellow) • All possessed the 7 criterions for civilization. WORLD RELIGIONS • Answer Fundamental Questions all people ask • Adapt to cultures where they spread • Are adopted by the political leadership • Are portable and have a message that transcends geography • Western ones are: • 1. Judaism • 2. Christianity • 3. Islam • Eastern ones are: • 4. Hinduism • 5. Buddhism 4 FUNCTIONS OF RELIGIONS • 1. Cosmological- Answers the questions where man fits into cosmos • 2. Mystical- Provides profound, transcendent experiences • 3. Pedagogical- What is taught from generation to generation • 4. Sociological- Provides a group to identify with and support networks. TURNING POINT • This is a historian’s reasoning device that eludes to key moments in history. • In other words, these hinge moments point history into an entirely different direction and serves as causation for future outcomes. UNIT II TERMS: ERA 4- EXPANDING AND INTENSIFIED HEMISPHERIC INTERACTIONS, 300 TO 1500 C.E. POPULATION GROWTH • Caused by: • 1. Invention of Iron • 2. Farming and Pastoral Nomadism • 3. Improved Crops • 4. Usage of horses and camels • 5. People living in denser populations boost immune systems. EXPANDING NETWORKS OF EXCHANGE Routes Empires Around 300 BCE to 300 CE, merchants, shippers, sea captains, and empire-builders extended and strengthened trade routes across Afroeurasia and the Americas. Empires required networks of military and political communication. These networks encouraged interaction of many kinds over long distances. Writing With the appearance of alphabetic writing systems in Afroeurasia, people could communicate faster and easier than ever before. Religions The appearance of world religions— Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity—stimulated cultural interchange across political and cultural boundaries. PASTORAL NOMADISM • Are producers of food, and the size of their tribal or ethnic units increases accordingly. These groups raise livestock, and they move about within their established territory to find good pastures for their animals. COLLECTIVE LEARNING • Human beings build our body of knowledge over time. • Those from the past have contributed inventions, innovations, and ideas that are still very much with us today. • This is one of the main reasons history is studied. SILK ROAD • The Silk Road was a network of trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China, which linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce. • This was the catalyst for the world to increase it’s interactions. TRANS-SAHARAN TRADE ROUTE • This was the route that connected Africa. Many commodities passed along these, the most important being salt and gold. • This was to Africa what the Silk Road was to Afroeurasia • This interconnectedness boosted immune systems along with economies. WESTERN CIVILIZATION • This is the lineage that began in Greece. • This Greek heritage was passed to the Romans…. • Which was passed to the Byzantines….. • Which was passed to Europe…. • Which was passed to the United States. We ultimately have Greek roots. EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS • This is the portion of the world that follows Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism and Shinto. • They have high population centers and cultural similarities compared to the western world. DAR AL-ISLAM • This is the area of the world under the rule of Islam , literally, "the home of Islam" or "the home of submission.“ • This concept was the impetus for the spread of Islam beginning in the 7th century. DYNASTIC CYCLE • Dynastic cycle is an important political theory in Chinese history. According to this theory, every dynasty goes through a culture cycle. A new ruler unites China, founds a new dynasty, and gains the Mandate of Heaven PANDEMICS • These are serious diseases that kill large numbers of people throughout the world. • Although they are tragic, they have altered world history • i.e. Indigenous deaths through smallpox, European economy post-Bubonic Plague MEDIEVAL TIMES • In European history, the Middle Ages or Medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. WORLD ZONES • 1. Afro-Eurasia: Africa and the Eurasian landmass, including offshore islands like Britain and Japan • 2. The Americas: North, Central, and South America, plus offshore islands like the Caribbean Islands • 3. Australasia: Australia and the island of Papua New Guinea, plus neighboring islands in the Pacific Ocean • 4. The Pacific: Island societies such as New Zealand, Micronesia, Melanesia, Hawaii • (Antarctica is not considered a world zone because until very recently no people lived there.) UNIT III TERMS: ERA 5- THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE, 15TH-18TH CENTURIES ABSOLUTISM • A political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler or other authority. Kings and Queens believed they had complete control over government and the lives of their people • The most widespread political system in use in Europe and parts of Asia in 1500-1600. DIVINE RIGHTS OF KINGS • The philosophical justification that monarchial rule comes from God’s will. Allows leaders to essentially do what they want. THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT • A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. • It was fueled by free-thinkers and philosophers and still has tremendous influence on modern education and government. AGE OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION • Began with Portugal in the 15th Century and resulted in European nations navigating the earth to seek economic gains. • This initiated significant global changes. EUROPEAN MIRACLE • “The European Miracle”, a term coined by Eric Jones refers to the sudden rise of Europe during the late Middle Ages. • REFORMATION + RENAISSANCE + SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION + ENGLIGHTENMENT + AGE OF DISCOVERY= EUROPEAN MIRACLE. • Europe went from poor, ignorant, and backwater to having world hegemony in a short time. NATION-STATE • A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. • In other words, the modern idea of being a citizen of a country….not a kingdom, dynasty, empire, fiefdom, etc. that we’ve seen in the ancient world. PROTESTANT REFORMATION • A 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches • Resulted in significant increases in literacy in Europe due to Luther’s promoting reading the bible in the vernacular, not Latin. COUNTER-REFORMATION • The period of Catholic resurgence beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War (1648), and was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation. RENAISSANCE • A cultural movement that spanned from the 14th-17th Century that ended Medieval Times and brought renewal and growth to Europe. • Began in Italy and then spread outward to the rest of Europe Art AFFECTED Religion Philosophy Politics Literature Architecture Science Music FEUDALISM • The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection. SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION • The scientific revolution was the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed views of society and nature. CAPITALISM • An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state that became the dominant economic system in Western World COERCED LABOR • When people are forced to labor against one’s will • Types: Slavery, Bride buying, Child Labor, Indentured Servitude, Human trafficking, Impressment, Peonage, Penal Labor COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE • Vast Global economic exchange that started with Columbus when he returned to Spain in 1493, bringing plants and animals that he found in the Americas. • It caused a global population explosion and commercial revolution: GREAT DYING This occurred when Europeans arrived in the Americas. Up to 95% of indigenous people died due to European’s guns, germs (smallpox), and greed. GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE • Mutual dependence at a global level. In other words, one country depends on another country for something and that country may depend on another country, which eventually creates global interdependence. MERCANTILISM • Economic policy aimed at strengthening a national economy by exporting more goods than importing. • Often colonial powers forced their colonies to provide raw materials for these economies and then buy the finished products. “GUNPOWDER” EMPIRES • These are the Empires that embraced the usage of firearms and subsequently gained power through the military might their weapons afforded them. These six are the European Empires, Safavid, Mughal, Russian, Ming China, and the Ottomans. UNIT IV: ERA 6 - AN AGE OF GLOBAL REVOLUTIONS, 18TH CENTURY TO 1914 CONSTITUTIONALISM • This was when nations adopted Constitutions to serve as, “rule books” for running nations DEMOCRACY • The word 'democracy' has its origins in the Greek language. It combines two shorter words: 'demos' meaning whole citizen living within a particular citystate and 'kratos' meaning power or rule. In short, it is a system where the majority rules. INALIENABLE RIGHTS These are rights that are indelible and cannot be taken away. For us, these are stated in the first Ten Amendments of our Constitution known as the Bill of Rights CLASSICAL LIBERALISM NATIONALISM • The strong belief that the interests of a particular nationstate are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY • It’s the idea that the power of this government comes from "We the People", that the American government, our government, is ruled by its people through their votes. REPUBLICANISM Republicanism is a system of government where people vote for people to speak on their behalf. Here is where our 435 seats are in the United States REVOLUTIONS DURING THIS TIME • Democratic- Many countries gaining sovereignty and adopting democracy. • Industrial- Economies and culture based upon the industrial process. • Abolitionism- Countries eliminating slavery. • Revolutions are a means of getting rid of the old way and replacing it with something new. RULE OF LAW • This is an idea that began with the Magna Carta in 1215 and increased over time. • All people follow the law. • People will come and go, but the laws remain the same. SECULARISM • Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and people. SOCIAL CONTRACT On a smaller scale, the teacher and student relationship demonstrates that mutual sacrifices result in mutual benefits. CAPITALISM • An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. INDUSTRIALIZATION • When economies switched from agriculture to factories. • This created large cities and major global changes in regards to economy, culture, and hegemony. LABOR UNIONS • These are groups of workers that band together in solidarity in order to create better working conditions for themselves. • Were the catalyst of the working class. URBANIZATION • This is the process of people abandoning their rural roots and moving into cities. • In Detroit, immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, Blacks from the south (Great Migration)and whites from Appalachia moved here to work in factories. WORKING CLASS • This class emerged during this time. The working class are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labor occupations and in skilled, industrial work. Workingclass occupations include blue-collar jobs, some whitecollar jobs, and most service-work jobs. IMPERIALISM • This was the process of a large, well-armed nation going to a smaller, militarily weaker nation and imposing their economic and social will. SOCIAL DARWINISM • The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals • Philosophy behind European imperial nations which demonstrated significant racism. • People of color throughout the world were subjugated due to this philosophy. UNIT 5: ERA 7 - GLOBAL CRISIS AND ACHIEVEMENT, 1900-1945 BALANCE OF POWER POST WAR • In 1900 Europe had hegemony over the world. • By 1945, the balance of power shifted. After two World Wars and a Great Depression, the power shifted. • Former colonies became independent and the USA and USSR became the world’s superpowers. COMMUNISM • This is a system of government where all resources are collectivized • It emerged in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution ousted Czar Nicholas II. • Ultimately fails due to the lack of incentive. FASCISM • This is a philosophy where a leader has total control over the decisions facing a country. • Emerged in Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USSR • Adopted by the people in times of duress and crisis • Eliminated by a criticalthinking populace and democracy GENOCIDE • The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. • They have occurred throughout history but there were two major ones during this time, the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust GLOBAL GREAT DEPRESSION • Five causes were: • 1) Inequality of Wealth • 2) Protectionism • 3) Stock Market Crashes • 4) Overproduction of Agriculture • 5) War Debts and Reparations HOLOCAUST • The Holocaust was the sum total of all anti-Jewish actions carried out by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945 • It resulted in 13,000,000 deaths, including over 6,000,000 Jewish people MILITARISM • The belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. INDUSTRIALIZED WEAPONS • These were weapons that were made using the industrial process • Their creation and implementation resulted in the bloodiest century in human history • More people were killed in the 20th century than all previous centuries combined. MODERNITY • From 1900-1945, many inventions were created that ushered in the, “Era of Modernity” • These included the radio, airplane, automobile, assembly line, telephone, movies, and most importantly, electricity TOTALITARIANISM • A political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. ATOMIC AGE • The period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear, or "atomic“ bomb, Trinity, on July 16, 1945, during World War II. • This changed the world irreparably as humans created the capabilities for world-wide suicide UNIT 6: ERA 8- THE COLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH: THE 20TH CENTURY SINCE 1945 ARMS RACE AND SPACE RACE • A competition between the Superpowers for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons and advancements in space. • This fueled actions between the USA and USSR during the Cold War. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE • The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. • This method was used during this time period to combat colonial powers, unjust governments, and in the struggle for full citizenship DOMINO THEORY • The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. • Largely responsible for the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts, as well as several smaller incidents in the 1980’s. CONTAINMENT • Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. CULTURAL IMPERIALISM • This is when one culture of a large and powerful country, organization, etc. having a great influence on another less powerful country • This has increased since the end of the Cold War GLOBALIZATION • Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION (M.A.D.) • Mutual assured destruction, or MAD, is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender • This has been the pervasive philosophy of the Atomic Age BRINKMANSHIP • The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics. • This took place throughout the Cold War, with the Cuban Missile Crisis being the best example. DECOLONIZATION • Decolonization is defined as the act of getting rid of colonization, or freeing a country from being dependent on another country. An example of decolonization is India becoming independent from England after World War II. • Happened throughout the postWorld War world DEMOCRATIZATION • This was the process of nations moving from prior models of governance to democratic forms. • In 1920, there were 15 democratic nations, today 2/3 of the world uses a form of democratic government to run their nations. UNIT 7: CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ISSUES, PAST TO PRESENT ETHNIC CLEANSING • The mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. • This has been perpetrated by many radical regimes in recent years and is based on extreme religious and/or political viewpoints. FOSSIL FUELS • Fossil fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years. • The burning of these has caused environmental damage. GLOBAL WARMING • A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. 21ST CENTURY MIGRATIONS • More than 70 million people have been forced to leave their homes because of conflict, political upheaval and disasters, as well as by climate change and development projects, and are now living as migrants. • This shift has, and will continue to, greatly effect world geopolitics NATURAL RESOURCES • Natural resources are materials provided by the Earth that humans can use to make more complex (human-made) products. • World economies are based upon these and mankind faces challenges as they continue to be depleted. TERRORISM • This is when regimes use violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. • 9/11/01 is considered a turning point in terrorism and the world has been riddled with many attacks since then. • This has ushered in an era where often the need for security has lessened individual liberties. OVERPOPULATION • Overpopulation is a function of the number of individuals compared to the relevant resources, such as the water and essential nutrients they need to survive. It can result from an increase in births, a decline in mortality rates, an increase in immigration, or an unsustainable biome and depletion of resources. • The world now has 7 Billion people living on it. THE INFORMATION AGE • The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization. FINAL WORD…. • • Thank you for spending this year with me and I hope this class was a beneficial experience for you. I wish you all the best in your future years and hope to keep in touch with many of you. • Now a final perspective to leave you with….. • https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=XH7ZRF6zNoc