World History Study Guide Mr. Huesken

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World History Study Guide Mr. Huesken

World History Study Guide – Mr. Huesken

Unit III Exam – 90 points total

Test Breakdown:

  • 60 multiple choice questions @ 1 point each
  • 15 map matching questions @ 1 point each
  • 3 essay questions @ 15 points
  • You pick the one (1) that you feel the most comfortable with
  • Bonus questions

Test Date: ______

Exam Topics

  • Culture
  • Definition
  • Elements of Culture
  • Anthropology
  • What is it?
  • How did it originate?
  • Anthropological Method
  • Dangers of Culture
  • Stereotyping
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Xenophobia
  • Assimilation
  • Ethnocide

UNIT I

  • The Middle Ages
  • Feudalism
  • The Manor
  • The Class system
  • The Serfs
  • The Black Death
  • Causes?
  • Where did it originate?
  • Symptoms
  • Impact on Europe
  • The Renaissance
  • Causes
  • Where did it originate?
  • Major figures
  • Impact on Europe
  • The Founding of Christianity
  • Where did it originate?
  • Jesus of Nazareth
  • Peter / Paul
  • Edict of Milan
  • The Council of Rome
  • The Catholic Church
  • Why was it so powerful?
  • Power structure
  • The Pope
  • Purgatory
  • Excommunication
  • The Inquisition
  • Purpose
  • The Reformation
  • [REFORM]ation
  • Reasons for…
  • Martin Luther
  • 95 Theses
  • Diet of Worms
  • John Calvin
  • Impact on Europe
  • Results of the Reformation
  • Religious violence
  • Peace of Augsburg
  • The Anabaptists
  • The Mennonites
  • The Amish
  • Absolute Monarchs
  • Reasons for…
  • Divine Right
  • Impact on Europe
  • Islam
  • Founding
  • The Prophet Muhammad
  • The Qur’an
  • The Five Pillars
  • Shia / Sunni Muslims
  • The Ottoman Empire
  • Creation
  • The sultan
  • The Janissaries
  • Suleiman the Lawgiver
  • The Ottoman law code
  • Cultural impacts
  • Feudal China
  • Filial Piety
  • Mandate of Heaven
  • Feudal Japan
  • The Shoguns
  • Social structure
  • Tokugawa shoguns
  • The Samurai
  • Bushido
  • Czarist Russia
  • Rivalry between Czar / nobles
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • The “good” period
  • “The Times of Trouble”
  • Peter the Great
  • Turning of Russia into a imperial power

UNIT II

  • Pre-Columbian / Mesoamerican Civilizations
  • Aztecs
  • Incas
  • Mayas
  • Age of Exploration
  • Motivations
  • Major Explorers
  • Impacts of…
  • The Vinland Map Controversy
  • Evidence for & against
  • Isolation of Asia
  • Chinese Exploration / Zheng He
  • Reasons for…
  • African Slaves Trade
  • Why Africans?
  • Effects
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • Reasons?
  • Important scientists
  • Impacts of…
  • The Enlightenment
  • Reasons for…
  • Major themes
  • Major philosophers
  • The English Civil War
  • Reasons for…
  • James I / Charles I
  • Parliament
  • Oliver Cromwell / his rule
  • The Restoration / Charles II
  • Latin American Revolutions
  • Reasons for…
  • Major figures
  • The Haitian Revolution
  • Reasons for…
  • Major figures
  • The start of the violence
  • International war?
  • Independence
  • The French Revolution
  • Reasons for…
  • The “Moderates” / Declaration of the Rights of Man
  • The “Radicals” / The Jacobins / The Reign of Terror
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Early life / military career
  • Rise to power
  • Major conquests / successes
  • Mistakes
  • Final exile

UNIT III

  • Industrial Revolution
  • Reasons for…
  • Major innovations / inventions
  • Major figures
  • Influence of…
  • Industrial Reformers
  • Reasons for reform
  • Major influences
  • Major figures / ideas
  • European Imperialism in Asia
  • Reasons for…
  • End of Isolation (China / Japan)
  • The British / Opium trade
  • The US / Commodore Perry
  • The Boxer Rebellion
  • British Imperialism in India
  • Reasons for…
  • Pros / Cons
  • The Sepoy Rebellion
  • European Imperialism in Africa
  • “Scramble for Africa”
  • British in South Africa
  • Reasons for…
  • Apartheid
  • The Boer Wars / Results
  • The US in the Philippines
  • The Spanish – American War
  • “Coaling Stations” / US goals
  • Emilio Aguinaldo / Filipino goals
  • How the war was fought
  • US reaction to the war
  • Results of the war
  • Otto von Bismarck / Imperial Germany
  • The German Confederation
  • Congress of Vienna
  • Prussia / Otto von Bismarck
  • Bismarck’s steps to victory
  • Franco-Prussian War
  • The Armenian Genocide
  • The Ottomans & the Armenians
  • The Russo-Turkish War / WWI
  • Planning & creation of the genocide
  • World reaction
  • Influence today
  • The Russian Revolution
  • Reasons for…
  • Czar Nicholas II
  • Vladimir Lenin / Bolsheviks
  • Russian Civil War
  • Creation of the USSR
  • Anastasia / Anna Anderson Mystery
  • The USSR / Josef Stalin
  • Lenin’s death
  • Leon Trotsky vs. Stalin
  • “The Great Purge”
  • “The Five Year Plan”
  • Results of…
  • Imperial Japan
  • “Opening Up”
  • Treaty of Kanagawa
  • The Shi-Shi / Meigi Revolt
  • Japanese modernization
  • New government
  • Foreign expansion / conflicts
  • The Weimar Republic
  • End of WWI / Treaty of Versailles
  • The German Revolution of 1918
  • The Weimar Government
  • Reaction to…
  • Issues with…
  • The end of…
  • Judaism / The Holocaust
  • Beginnings of the religion
  • The “diaspora”
  • European “anti-Semitism”
  • Hitler / Jewish “scapegoat”
  • The Holocaust
  • Views of the Holocaust
  • The Israeli – Palestinian Conflict
  • Zionism
  • British Mandate / Palestinians
  • Balfour Declaration
  • Jewish immigration to Palestine
  • Violence / World War II
  • The Peel Commission
  • The White Papers
  • Current Issues
  • Hinduism
  • History of…
  • “Big ideas”
  • Caste System
  • Dharma
  • Karma
  • Ganges River
  • Gandhi / Indian Independence
  • INC / Muslim League
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work in South Africa
  • Non-Violent Resistance
  • Work in India / results
  • Partitioning of India / Pakistan
  • Independence / issues
  • Gandhi’s assassination
  • Partitioning plan / British leave
  • Issues with…
  • End results with…
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