World History 6.0

Final Exam Review/Study Guide

The World History Final Exam is scheduled for Monday June 5th, second session. You will be given a room assignment as soon as they are made available to me. The Final consists of 65 Multiple Choice questions and is cumulative. Most questions are recall; some are skill based. Below is a list of terms, people, and concepts that you can expect to see on the Final.

Part 1: Vocab:Define and describe the significance and impacts of the following:

  1. Agricultural Revolution
  2. Confucianism
  3. Hinduism
  4. Caste system
  5. Buddhism
  6. PaxRomana
  7. Judaism
  8. Christianity
  9. Islam
  10. Feudalism
  11. Crusades
  12. Mongols
  13. Columbian Exchange
  14. Triangle Trade
  15. Mercantilism
/ 16.Renaissance
17. Printing Press
18.Protestant Reformation
19. Martin Luther
20. Enlightenment
21. Nationalism
  1. French Revolution
23.Declaration of Rights of Man
24. Industrial Revolution
25. Socialism
26. Communism (Fascism too)
27. Imperialism
28. Berlin Conference
29. Opium War
30. Meiji Restoration
31. World War I
32. Russian Revolution / 33. Great Depression
34. Dictator
35. World War II
  1. Holocaust
  2. Cold War
  3. creation of modern Israel
  4. Economic Miracle
40. Mao Zedong
  1. Deng Xiaoping
  2. One Child Policy
  3. Tiananmen Square
  4. Mohandas Gandhi
  5. Partition
  6. Apartheid
  7. Nelson Mandela
  8. Developed nations
  9. Developing nations
  10. Globalization

Part 2: Study Guide Questions: The following question cues will help you prepare for the questions on the final.

FOUNDATIONS

Agriculture & Civilization

  1. What were the impacts of the agricultural revolution?
  2. What characteristics of early civilizations? Where were most early civilizations located

Geographically?

Rise of Empires

  1. What characteristics allow empires to gain and maintain power? How did Emperors unite their people?
  2. Comparatively, how did China’s cultural & technological development compare to others?
  3. What was the structure of the government of the Roman Empire?
  4. What was the economy of the Roman Empire like?

Fall of Empires

  1. Why do empires lose power?
  2. What are some effects of empires losing power?
  3. What is the main reason that both the Roman Empire & the Han Dynasty fell?

RELIGIONS

60. What is the difference between monotheism & polytheism?

61. Which religions are monotheistic? Which are polytheistic?

62. What role do the 10 Commandments (Christianity); the Eightfold Path (Buddhism); & the 5 Pillars (Islam) play in each religion?

63. What are the origins of the major world religions that we studied this year? (where & when did they emerge?)What are their major beliefs? How did Buddhism spread?

64. What are the major beliefs of Confucianism?

ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

Society & Trade
65.What was Western Europe like during the Middle Ages?
66. What was the structure of Europe’s Feudal system? Why was Feudalism developed? Why did it decline?
67.What were the causes & effects of the
Crusades? / Technology & Innovation
68.What was the impact of the printing press?

GLOBAL INTERACTIONS

Explorations & the Americas
69.How did the Columbian Exchange affect the Americas and Europe?
70. How was the idea of mercantilism influential? / Renaissance & Reformation
71.Why was the Renaissance significant in European history? What areas of study were emphasized at this time?
72.What were the causes of the Reformation?

ENLIGHTENMENT/REVOLUTION & THE INDUSTRIAL AGE

Enlightenment & French Revolution
  1. What developments were the foundations of the Scientific Revolution?
  2. How were the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment similar and different?
  3. How did the Enlightenment influence the French Revolution?Who were major Enlightened thinkers?
  4. What were the long-term and short-term causes of the French Revolution? How did it inspire nationalism? What were its effects?
  5. What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man? The Wealth of Nations? The Magna Carta?
/ Industrialization & Imperialism
  1. How was socialism a response to industrialization? What did Karl Marx think about the effects of capitalism?
  2. What were the impacts of industrialization?
  3. What were the causes and motivations for imperialism? When did it occur?
  4. What were the effects of imperialism on India, Africa, and China?
  5. What was the cause of the Opium Wars?
  6. How did Japan respond to European pressure?

20TH CENTURY

West & Russia
  1. What were the main causes of WWI?
  2. What were the effects of World War I?
  3. How did the Holocaust influence the creation of modern Israel?
  4. How did the Great Depression contribute to the start of WWII?
  5. What were the effects of World War II?
  6. Causes of Cold War? When/why was NATO formed?
/ China & Japan
  1. What were some effects of China’s communist revolution?
  2. What did Deng Xiaoping do to improve China?
  3. Why were the Tiananmen Square protests in China important?
  4. What was Japan’s development like after WWII?
/ Independence Movements
  1. What were some successes of India’s independence movement?
  2. What are examples of issues India faced as it gained independence?
  3. What are examples of issues Africa faced as nations gained independence?
  4. What are examples of issues Middle Eastern countries faced as they gained independence?
  5. Why was Israel created?

Part 3: Timeline of Major Developments:Here is a flow chart of the major ideas we covered this year in a chronology

Hunter Gatherers
↓
Agricultural Revolution
↓
Civilization
↓
Religions & Roman Empire
↓
Fall of Empires
↓
Spread of Islam
↓
Crusades
↙ ↘ / Early American Civilizations
↓
Renaissance
↓
Invention of moveable-type Printing Press
↓
Protestant Reformation
↓
Scientific Revolution
↓
Enlightenment
↓
French Revolution
↓
Nationalism spreads
↘
↙
Tension grows in Europe
↘
↙
Communist China &
Capitalist Japan / Industrial Revolution
↘ ↙
Middle-class grows & Socialism
↓
Imperialism
↓
Japan industrializes
↓
World War I
↓
Rise of Dictators
↓
World War II
↓
Cold War
↓
U.S. & USSR / European Exploration
↓
Columbian Exchange
↓
Spanish Colonization
↓
Slave trade expands
↓
Latin Am. get independence
↙
↘
Africa & India lose freedom
↙
↘
Independence movements
↓
Problems in Af & Middle East

1989-Present

Political, Social, Economic Problems in the modern world