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CORE 1220: THE SHAPING OF THE MODERN WORLD – SPRING 2013
FINAL EXAM REVIEW
SECTION ONE – IDENTIFICATION MULTIPLE CHOICE (25 questions for 2 points each; 50
total): Thirty multiple-choice questions will use the terms from the list below.
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Reconquista
English East India Company
Glorious Revolution
Martin Luther
Ignatius Loyola
Nicolaus Copernicus
Isaac Newton
Thirty Years’ War
Voltaire
Adam Smith
Taino
Motecuzoma
Hernan Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
engenho
Afonso I
Dona Beatriz
Emperor Qianlong
Matteo Ricci
Tokugawa Ieyasu
daimyo
Janissaries
Mehmed the Conqueror
Suleyman the Magnificent
Shah Ismail
Babur
Akbar
Aurangzeb
jizya
Seven Years’ War
Declaration of Independence
Louis XVI
National Assembly
Jacobins
Olympe de Gouges
Napoleon Bonaparte
Saint-Domingue
gens de couleur
Toussaint Louverture
Simón Bolivar
Edmund Burke
Mary Wollstonecraft
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Congress of Vienna
Trail of Tears
La Reforma
Mexican-American War
U.S. Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Louisiana Purchase
Muhammed Ali
Alexander II
Lin Zexu
Commodore Matthew Perry
Meiji Restoration
“Capitulations”
Tanzimat
Crimean War
cohongs
Opium War
Unequal Treaties
Taiping Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
Theodor Herzl
Emiliano Aguinaldo
Sepoy Mutiny
Boer War
Indian National Congress
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Mustapha Kemal Ataturk
V.I. Lenin
Woodrow Wilson
Schlieffen Plan
Bolsheviks
Lusitania
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Mandate System
John Maynard Keynes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
New Deal
kulaks
Collectivization
Mein Kampf
Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Sun Yat-Sen
Mao Zedong
Chinese Communist Party
Jiang Jieshi
Guomindang
Rape of Nanjing
Munich Conference
appeasement
Axis Powers
blitzkrieg
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Midway
kamikaze
“Final Solution”
“comfort women”
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Bay of Pigs
Jawaharlal Nehru
Partition of 1947
Ho Chi Minh
Lyndon Johnson
Palestine
Founding of Israel
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Suez Crisis
Kwame Nkrumah
apartheid
Nelson Mandela
African National Congress
Cultural Revolution
Deng Xiaoping
Indira Gandhi
Iranian Revolution
Iran-Iraq War
dependency theory
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Ronald Reagan
perestroika
globalization
GATT and WTO
BRICs
European Union
OPEC
climate change
human trafficking
HIV/AIDs
Persian Gulf War
al-Qaeda
9/11 Attacks
Taliban
WMDs
SECTION TWO – SHORT ANSWER (2 answers for 10 points each; 20 total): Pick two of the
following events. In separate answers, describe the historical significance of each event. Your answer for
each should be roughly two-to-three short paragraphs in length (roughly one blue book page). You need to
provide a rough idea of when the event took place, if not the exact year/date.
Capture of Constantinople
Peace of Westphalia
The Stamp Act
Treaty of Nanjing
Seneca Falls Convention
Battle of Gettysburg
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Mukden Incident
Munich Conference
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Bandung Conference
Tiananmen Square
End of Apartheid
U.S. Invasion of Iraq
SECTION THREE – ESSAY (30 points total): Answer one of the following essay questions a minimum
of five blue book pages and have a standard essay format: an introduction showing your position on the
question, logically structured body paragraphs that detail the most important points backing up your
position and evidence to support these points, and a conclusion the reaffirms your position and shows how
you have supported it.
1) What are “human rights” and where did they
come from? How did these evolve over the
course of the modern period? Point to three or
four historical events or developments that were
critical to the development of this idea.
2) Do you think the Enlightenment has had an
overall positive or negative impact on human
society? Make sure to use examples of
Enlightenment thought from specific thinkers,
and demonstrate how those ideas were applied in
practice in the two and half centuries that
followed.
3) From the beginnings of the Atlantic Slave
Trade through the decolonization of the
twentieth century, what role has the concept of
race played in world history? How did ideas
about racial difference come about? How did
they influence concepts of citizenship and
individual rights during the modern era? Make
sure to use specific examples.
4) Through the past five hundred years of world
history, has there been a correlation between
capitalism and political freedom? What is the
relationship between free market capitalism and
liberal democracy? Are they compatible or at
odds with each other? Make sure to use specific
historical examples to support your argument.
5) What is a revolution? Provide your own
definition of the term and then compare and
contrast at least three different revolutions that
we have covered over the course of the semester.
Overall, have revolutions been positive or
negative events for human societies?
6) What is a “nation-state” and how did it
develop? How does the idea of sovereignty relate
to the nation state? And why did a global system
of independent nation-states develop globally
during the twentieth century? Lastly, do you
think nation-states have a future, or are they
becoming more irrelevant in the age of multinational corporations and the Internet? Make
sure to reference at least three key historical
developments when discussing the origins of the
nation-state.