World History Finalstudy Guide

World History Finalstudy Guide

WORLD HISTORY FINALSTUDY GUIDE

UNIT- 0 THE MIDDLE AGES

  1. What percent of Europe died from the Plague? ______
  2. Where did the Plague come from? ______
  3. Which German town blamed Jews for the Black Death and burned women and children? ______
  4. The Papacy moved during this time period. Which French town was home to the Pope? ______

UNIT- 1 THE RENAISSANCE & EXPLORATION

  1. Define Renaissance ______
  2. Name the family that was the largest patron to the arts in Florence. ______
  3. What was the Peace of Lodi? ______
  4. Who invented the Printing Press? ______
  5. When was the Printing Press invented? ______
  6. Two artists that sculpted the Biblical figure David. ______
  7. Define Humanism. ______
  8. Humanist author of Laura’s Sonnets. ______
  9. Where was Prince Henry the Navigator from? ______
  10. First explorer to circumnavigate the globe. ______
  11. Conquistador that looted the Aztec Empire. ______
  12. Conquistador that looted the Inca Empire. ______

UNIT- 2 THE REFORMATION & WARS OF RELIGION

  1. Prior to the Reformation, who wrote Utopia which was critical of the Church? ______
  2. What was being sold that led Luther to post his 95 Theses? ______
  3. Who protects Luther after he flees from the Diet of Worms? ______
  4. What Treaty ended The Schmalkaldic War in Germany in 1555? ______
  5. Which religious group did “Bloody” Mary persecute? ______
  6. Name for French Protestants. ______

UNIT- 3 ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM

  1. King of Sweden during the 30 Years War, he is considered the father of modern warfare. ______
  2. What did the Edict of Nantes declare? ______
  3. What did the Edict of Fontainebleau declare? ______
  4. Peter the Great wanted to make Russia more like______?
  5. Who was called the “Sleeping Giant” of the world? ______

UNIT- 4 THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION & THE ENLIGHTENMENT

  1. During the Scientific Revolution, which scientist wrote the book The Fabric of the Human Body? ______
  2. What was Diderot’s most important work during the Enlightenment? ______
  3. What were Salons? ______
  4. Female author during the enlightenment that encouraged women’s rights. ______

UNIT- 4.5 – ECONOMIES & SOCIETIES OF THE 1700s

  1. Which 1700s war is sometimes called the “first world-wide war”? ______
  2. What was the domestic system of industrial production (fabric) in Flanders and England? ______

UNIT- 5 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

  1. Who was in the First Estate? ______
  2. Who was in the Second Estate? ______
  3. Who was in the Third Estate? ______
  4. Name of the King’s fortress that was stormed at the beginning of the French Revolution. ______
  5. The leader of the Committee of Public Safety that led the Reign of Terror. ______
  6. What was the Concordat of 1801? ______
  7. Napoleon’s final battle. ______

UNIT 6 TEST INDUSTRY & THE –ISMS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

  1. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? ______
  2. Who invented the Spinning Jenny? ______
  3. What new building hosted the Great Exhibition of 1851? ______
  4. Who were the Luddites? ______
  5. What did Metternich's "principle of legitimacy" want to ______
  6. Who was the leader of the Congress of Vienna? ______
  7. Who developed the “iron law of wages” which stated that wages would stay low as workers bred more children? ______
  8. Following the capture of Napoleon, the Bourbon monarchy was restored, but then an election was held. ______
  9. Which French President followed King Louis-Philippe? ______
  10. Who created the London Police force, nicknamed the “Bobbies”? ______

UNIT 7: LIFE IN THE 19TH CENTURY- UNIFICATION, NATIONALISM & IMPERIALISM

  1. Who reconstruction of Paris with broad boulevards, public squares, and municipal utilities? ______
  2. Who was the Italian nationalist who challenged Cavour for control of southern Italy and led the Red Shirts? ______
  3. What was the decisive battle of the Franco-Prussian War where Napoleon III was captured? ______
  4. What did the Ausgleich (or Compromise) of 1867 accomplish? ______
  5. Which 19th century scientist realized that natural selection will favor the animal that is best adapted? ______
  6. Which scientist developed the process of pasteurization, germ theory of disease and the notion of preventing food from spoilage? ______
  7. Who is the father of sociology? ______
  8. If fabric and textiles led the first industrial revolution, what goods led the second industrial revolution? ______
  9. Define Social-Darwinism. ______
  10. Who was the leader of the Zionist movement? ______
  11. What event showed the rest of the world the anti-Semitism of France? ______
  12. Where was the Boer War fought? ______
  13. The "open door" policy was to allow more freedom of trade in which Asian nation? ______

UNIT 8—THE GREAT WAR AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM

  1. The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand in which city? ______
  2. What was the name of the war plan to prevent a two front war in Germany? ______
  3. What alliance was the Ottoman Empire a part of? ______
  4. What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? ______
  5. Name the ethnic group that was victim of an attempted genocide in WWI. ______
  6. Name the Treaty that forced Germany to acknowledge "war guilt" and to pay reparations for its alleged wartime aggression. ______
  7. The Middle Eastern Muslim nation that made an effort to adopt a Westernized secular culture after World War I? ______
  8. Who wrote Mein Kampf? ______
  9. Who won the Spanish Civil War? ______

Unit 9: THE COLD WAR AND A NEW WESTERN WORLD

  1. What was the other name of the European Recovery Program? ______
  2. The opposite of NATO was? ______
  3. Middle Eastern political leader who promoted Pan-Arabism. ______
  4. Which two nations emerged from the “orgy of blood”? ______
  5. Creator of the “Great Leap Forward.” ______
  6. The author of The Feminine Mystique and who was a founder of the National Organization of Women. ______
  7. What did the Brezhnev Doctrine? ______
  8. Define détente. ______
  9. Name the political movement that made average people aware of environmental problems and gained a variety of local and national political offices. ______
  10. What did the group Black September do in 1972? ______

SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

There will be one SAQ (of course the SAQ will have part A, B, & C as always). To help you, I have written three SAQs but will use only one on the exam. These are the sources I have selected.

POSSIBLE SAQ #1

“Jacob Burckhardt defined the period [the Renaissance] in terms of two concepts, ‘individualism’ and ‘modernity’. . . . This nineteenth-century myth of the Renaissance is still taken seriously by many people. . . . However, professional historians have become dissatisfied with this version of the Renaissance. . . . In the first place, there are arguments to the effect that so-called ‘Renaissance men’ were really rather medieval. They were more traditional in their behaviour, assumptions and ideals than we tend to think—and also more tradition than they saw themselves. . . . In the second place, the medievalists have accumulated arguments to the effect that the Renaissance was not such a singular event as Burckhardt and his contemporaries once thought and that the term should really be used in the plural. There were various ‘renascences’ in the Middle Ages, notably in the twelfth century and in the age of Charlemagne. In both cases there was a combination of literary and artistic achievements with a revival of interest in classical learning, and in both cases contemporaries described their age as one of restoration, rebirth or ‘renovation’.

-Peter Burke, “The Myth of Renaissance”

POSSIBLE SAQ #2 (DUALING SOURCES)

“By anchoring France securely to the shores that the Constituent Assembly had been unwilling to leave, Bonaparte accomplished somewhat late in the day that “revolution from above” of which the old monarchy had been incapable. The political trade-off was a certain number of amputations of the immediate Revolutionary inheritance, a few backward movements, and disconcerting borrowings from the Old Regime. In a sense, the dynamism of Bonaparte and his rigorous administration revived the experiment of enlightened despotism, somewhat belatedly, since in the setting of Western Europe it was already a bit out of date…”

-Louis Bergeron, historian, France Under Napoleon, 1981

“Napoleon himself believed that his work was a kind of crowning of the Revolution, and he was remarkably honest about his friendship with Robespierre’s brother… Napoleon would never have imagined that his own career could have flourished as it did without the surgery performed on French society by the Revolution. He was born in Corsica of poor, proud, petty-noble parents, and before the Revolution he could not possibly have risen above the rank of captain in the French army. Also, he had read Rousseau and sympathized with much of the Jacobin philosophy…Napoleon was indeed a military despot, but he did not destroy the work of the Revolution; in a sense, in a wider European context, he rounded off its work.”

-George Rudé, historian, Perspectives on the European Past, 1971

POSSIBLE SAQ #3

-Pablo Picasso, mural, Guernica, 1937

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