Review Sheet for History 102, Examination #1

Dr. Michael Lewis

Part I:  Be prepared to provide several sentences explaining (a) what this thing is/who this person is, (b) approximately when it happened/lived, (c) where  (d) why it is important/historically significant. 
In preparing for these terms, you will find some of them mentioned in your notes, but a few will only be found in your textbook. Please use the index of the textbook to look up any terms that you are unsure about. The textbook will also help you with terms that we did cover in class, by providing further contextual information.

Zheng He/Treasure Fleet                   Vasco de Gama                                 Mehmed II

Pax Mongolica                                      Cortez                                                 Moctezuma

Battle of Lepanto                                 Ismail (Safavid)                                  janissaries

Johannes Kepler                                 Yong Le                                                Tokugawa Shogunate

Trans-Saharan Caravan                    Suleyman the Magnificent                  Abbas the Great

The Silk Route                                      Babur                                                     Akbar

The Indian Ocean Trade                      Roxelana                                              Treaty of Tordesillas

Vijayanagar                                           Magellan                                              Lapu Lapu

Kingdom of Mali                                  Mercantilism                                         Sir Francis Drake

Swahili City-States                                 Privateer                                            East India Company

Prince Henry the Navigator                Great Zimbabwe                                Juan Sebastian Del Cano

Indulgences                                          Martin Luther                                    Peasant’s War of 1524-5

Anabaptists                                          John Calvin                                     Counter-Reformation

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre     Absolutism                                       Limited Monarchy

European Witches (1500s)                 Smallpox                                          St. Francis Xavier                     

Louis XIV                                              Erasmus                                         95 Theses

John Hus                                          Diet of Worms                                 Katherine von Bora

Thirty Years’ War                                Albuquerque                               Elmina (Fort in W. Africa)

Kongo Kingdom                                  Mutapa                                    Francisco Pizarro                

Copernicus                                            Galileo                                     Isaac Newton

Cod                                                        Zwingli                             Atlantic Triangle Trade

 Sugar Cane                                    Industrial Agriculture          Economy of Scale           

                                                                                            

Part II:  The following provide sample topics for the examination’s essays.  Please note: these are meant to guide your review. Do not expect them to be exactly reproduced on the examination.  On the exam you will be expected to answer one essay question – you will be given at least two to choose from.  Your essay should be substantial.  It should be several pages long, with a clear thesis statement, introduction, and conclusion.  It should include specific historical details used to prove your point. 

1.)      Contrast China, Spain, Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, and the Mughal Empire.  Describe the key factors in these empires' fates during the 1400s-1700s.

2.)      Given the political/social/cultural chaos of Europe in the period 1500-1700, particularly with regard to the Protestant Reformation and religious and political wars of that period, how did a handful of European states manage to expand outward and begin to dominate a large part of the world in this same period?  I expect that you will have to contrast European developments with those in other parts of the world.

3.)       How valid is the idea that you can tell the history of the world by telling a history of trade relationships and arrangements., and who controls the world's economic systems?  Suggest what this type of history would include and explain well, but also suggest what this type of history would leave out, using specific examples from class.

4.)      Would it be fair, or not, to use the Indian Ocean Trade, and the history of who controlled it, as a model for European expansion in the rest of the globe? Why or why not? Use extensive details in proving your case.

5.)      Why were European explorers so successful in “conquering” both the Old and the New Worlds? Are these two cases more similar or dissimilar? Use examples of European expansion in both the Old and the New Worlds in proving your point.

6.)     If you had to be a non-elite woman in 1550, where in the world would you want to live, and why? In answering this question you should focus both upon why you choose the place that you do, but also why you don't choose other key empires of that time.

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