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Honors World History
Fall 2008 Final Study Guide
Review your terms. Make sure you know the significance not just the glossary definition.
Review your maps of Europe from WWI and the map of Imperialism since there will be some map questions.
Foundations
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Describe the evolution of Democracy in
Ancient Greece:
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City States (Sparta and Athens)
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Political Leaders
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Philosophers / Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
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Forms of Government
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Impact of the spread of Greeks ideas
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Explain the evolution of the Roman Republic to
the Roman Empire
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Roman Written law and its application to
everyone
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Greek and Roman influence on the US
constitution and political system (legacy)
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10 Commandments and Judeo-Christian
Tradition (Moral law)
Enlightenment
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Laying the Foundation for ideological and
political Revolution
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Renaissance, Protestant Reformation;
impact of each
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Compare key ideas of the great thinkers from the
Enlightenment period
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Know specific thinkers and their
philosophy: Locke, Montesquieu,
Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Jefferson,
Madison, Hobbes
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Impact on the governments in Europe
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Absolute Monarchy
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Explain how Absolute Monarchs rose
to power in Europe
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Spread of Enlightenment and its effect
on Monarchy: Enlightened despots
English Revolution (English Civil War and
Glorious Revolution)
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Organize the main events in
chronological order
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Know the kings / rulers and their
relationship with Parliament
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Know the key points of the documents
that came out of the revolution: Magna
Carta, English Bill of Rights, Petition
of Rights
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Know the dates (in general)
American Revolution
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Organize the main events in
chronological order
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Know the key points of the documents
that came out of the revolution:
Declaration of Independence, US Bill
of Rights
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Know the dates (in general)
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Explain the separation of powers and
the federal system
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Connect to the Enlightenment
French Revolution
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Know the main causes of the revolution
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Describe the Estates – General
information who, how many, rights,
lack of rights
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Organize the main events in
chronological order; significance
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and
the Citizen
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Main characters / characteristics
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Louis XVI
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Robespierre
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Connect to the Enlightenment
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Congress of Vienna
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Revolutions of 1848
Industrial Revolution
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Agricultural Revolution / Crop rotation
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Analyze why Britain was the first to
industrialize
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Describe the growth of population, urban
migration, growth of cities
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Manchester
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The spread to the rest of Europe and the US
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The effects of industrialization on mining
and manufacturing
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Inventors: Watt, Whitney, Bessemer,
Pasteur, Edison, Darby, Arkwright,
Hargreaves, Kay, Fulton, Morse
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Transportation: Railroads, roads, canals
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The union movement /class tension
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Growth of the middle class
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Political Reforms / suffrage
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Factors of Production
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Entrepreneurship
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Growth of capitalism/ Laissez-faire (Adam
Smith), Utilitarianism (J. Bentham)
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Response to capitalism: utopianism,
socialism, communism (Karl Marx)
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Mass Culture / Charles Dickens
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Darwin, Mendal, Pavlov, Freud, Marie
Curie
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Arts in the Industrial Age:
Romanticism/Realism
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Imperialism
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Motivations for Imperialism (five)
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Africa
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External and interior forces that enabled the
Europeans to conquer Africa
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Case studies: Congo / Nigeria
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Significance of the Berlin Conference: European
goals as well as perspective of Africans
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Systems of control were used in Africa. What are
they? Which nations used which ones?
Positive and negative effects of Imperialism /
both long and short term
Significance of the Great Trek and Boer War.
Countries were not conquered in Africa / reason
why they remained Independent
Muslim Regions
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What are examples of European presence in
the Muslim Region?
India
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East India Company
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Sepoy Mutiny
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+/- Effects of Imperialism in India
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Nationalism movement in India
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Independence movement in India
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Non-violent disobedience / Gandhi’s
philosophy; film Gandhi
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Partition of India and its effects
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Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
China
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Compare European Exploration to China’s
movement towards isolationism
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Opium War
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Taiping Rebellion
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Boxer Rebellion
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Japan
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Meiji Era
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Russo-Japanese War
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Southeast Asia
Dutch, British, and French control in the Pacific
Rim region
Economic Imperialism in Latin America
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Economic Imperialism in Latin America
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WWI
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Unification of Germany and Italy
Break up of the Ottoman Empire
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Lost territories
Four MAIN Causes and the shot
Blank check and ultimatum
The entrance of the Russians, Germans,
British, Belgians, French, Japanese
Fronts: West, East, Home
Battles: 1st Marne, Somme, 2nd Marne,
Gallipoli
Life in the Trenches
Impact on the soldiers
Total War, Weapons, Propaganda
US entry