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
John Hus
Diet of Worms
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?
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.