APWH/ Hamburger
Winter Term 2009-2010 Assignments
These assignments are always due at the beginning of class on the first day of the week for which the topic is assigned.
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Study Guide: Chapter 18: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration Due: Monday, November 29th
1. Read Chapter 18, and pp. 579-580, and 585-586
2. Define the vocabulary listed below with significance.
3. Answer each focus question with a good long paragraph. (3/4 page handwritten, ½ page typed) Do not quote directly from the book.
4. Write and underline a thesis statement at the beginning of each answer.
kamikaze The Ottomans The Golden Horde
Yuan Dynasty Chinggis Khan (Temujin) bubonic plague
Khubilai Khan Tamerlane Zheng He
1. Compare and contrast Mongol rule in Persia and China.(Use direct comparisons.) (State)
2. To what extent did social structures in nomadic societies differ from settled peoples? (Soc & Env)
Study Guide, Chapter 19: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa Due: Monday, December 6th
1. Read the assigned chapter.
2. Define the vocabulary listed below with significance.
3. Answer each focus question with a good long paragraph. (3/4 page handwritten, ½ page typed) Do not quote directly from the book.
4. Write and underline a thesis statement at the beginning of each answer.
Bananas, stateless society, kinship group, Kingdom of Kongo, Kingdom of Ghana, Mansa Musa, Swahili, Kilwa, Zimbabwe, age grades, diviners, Axum
1. What was Islam’s effect on African kingdoms? (See earlier periods)
2. Draw a free hand map of trade routes in Africa. Add the commodities that were traded. (See text) Write a thesis statement describing this trade.
3. Compare the role of women in African society with women in China, western Europe, and Mongol societies. (Use direct comparisons.)
Study Guide, Chapter 17: Foundations of Christian Society in Western Europe Due: Monday, December 13th
and, Chapter 20: Western Europe during the High Middle Ages
1. Read pp. 433-454 and pp. 509-515, 521-529, and 532-534
2. Define the vocabulary listed below with significance.
3. Answer each focus question with a good long paragraph. (3/4 page handwritten, ½ page typed) Do not quote directly from the book.
4. Write a thesis statement at the beginning of each answer.
Germanic Tribes, Charlemagne, feudalism, serfs, Pope Gregory I, Benedictine monasticism, Holy Roman Empire, Three Estates, guilds, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dominicans and Franciscans, the Crusades
1. In what ways did the Catholic Church increase its power? (Cul, State & Soc)
2. In what ways did European states change after the 11th century? (State)
Study Guide, Chapter 21: Americas Due: Monday, December 20st
1. Read the assigned chapter.
2. Define the vocabulary listed below with significance.
3. Answer each focus question with a good long paragraph. (3/4 page handwritten, ½ page typed) Do not quote directly from the book.
4. Write a thesis statement at the beginning of each answer.
Mexica/Aztec Tenochtitlan Ritual Bloodletting
Huitzilpochitli Pueblo and Navajo Iroquois
Cahokia Inca Quipu
Inti and Viracocha Pacific Islander Trade Maori
1. Compare and contrast the social systems of Native American societies, Australian societies, and Pacific Islanders.
2. Compare the religious beliefs of the Mexica to the Incas.
Study Guide: Chapter 24: The Transformation of Europe Due: Monday, January 3rd
1. Read the assigned chapter.
2. Define the vocabulary listed below with significance.
3. Answer each focus question with a good long paragraph. (3/4 page handwritten, ½ page typed) Do not quote directly from the book.
4. Write a thesis statement at the beginning of each answer.
Martin Luther/95 Theses Henry VIII John Calvin Catholic Reformation
Thirty Years’ War Spanish Inquisition English Civil War absolute monarchy
Peace of Westphalia Ptolemaic/Copernican universes philosophes
1. How did the Protestants and Catholics respond to problems in the Catholic Church?
2. Compare and contrast the political systems of England and France.
Study Guide: Chapter 23: Transoceanic Encounters & Global Connections Due: Monday, January 10th
1. Read the assigned chapter.
2. Define the vocabulary listed below with significance.
3. Answer each focus question with a good long paragraph. (3/4 page handwritten, ½ page typed) Do not quote directly from the book.
4. Write a thesis statement at the beginning of each answer.
Vasco da Gama; lateen sails/compass/astrolabe; volta do mar; Prince Henry;
Vitus Bering; Magellan’s circumnavigation; trading post empires; English East India Company
Occupation of Siberia Seven Years’ War “Columbian Exchange” Manila Galleons
1. Compare and contrast the Portuguese motives and efforts in exploration with those of the Spanish.
2. How were indigenous people treated when Europeans encountered them? Cite specific examples from the Americas, Asia, and Siberia.
3. What were the consequences of the Columbian Exchange for both the old world and the new world?
Study Guide: Chapter 25: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania Due: Monday, January 17th
Hernan Cortes encomienda conquistadors Francisco Pizarro
Viceroys/audiencias Treaty of Tordesillas Mestizo Silver Trade
Mita system Fur trade indentured servitude James Cook
1. What were the various economic purposes for settlement of the new world?
2. Compare and contrast South and North American colonial societies. Include governance, social structure, and labor systems.
Study Guide: Chapter 26: Africa and the Atlantic World Due: Monday, January 24th
Antonian Movement Creole Queen Nzinga
syncretism Cash crops abolition movement
Dona Beatriz triangular trade Kingdom of Kongo
Maroons The Fulani Dahomey
1. Trace the origins and practice of slavery in Africa. To what extent were Africans involved in the slave trade?
2. Compare and contrast plantation society in North and South America.
3. What were the effects of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa?
Study Guide: Chapter 27: Tradition and Change in East Asia Due: Monday, January 31st
neo-Confucianism Qing Dynasty Matteo Ricci
Kangxi scholar-gentry mean people
Tokugawa Shogunate daimyu bushido
Edo native learning Dutch learning
1. To what extent did neo-Confucian principles affect life in China and Japan?
2. Compare and contrast the role of the merchant in Chinese and Japanese society.
3. Both China and Japan were isolated societies. Compare them and evaluate the contacts between them and other societies.
Study Guide: Chapter 28: The Islamic Empires Read for Monday, Feb 7th—homework vacation
Study Guide: Chapter 29: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World Due: Monday, February 14th
popular sovereignty Simon Bolivar volksgeist Declaration of Independence
Conservatism Zionism Liberalism Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
Italian and German Unification The Civil Code Haitian Revolution women’s emancipation
1. What did all the revolutions have in common? What was different?
2. To what extent did ideology govern the history of Europe and the Americas in the 19th century?
3. What were the overall causes of Latin American independence movements?
Study Guide: Chapter 30: The Making of Industrial Society Due: Monday, February 21st
horsepower cholera raw materials
factory system Cult of Domesticity (not in book—guess!!)
dependent economies socialism Sergei Witte
demographic transition Communist Manifesto
horizontal/vertical organization
1. What appears to be the necessary conditions for industrialization? Give specific examples in Britain, Germany, US, and Russia.
2. What were the beneficial and the adverse effects of industrialization.
3. What were the global effects of industrialization?