Period 1+2
Give two (2) impacts of the Agricultural Revolution on human society.
Social stratification, specialization of jobs, centralized governments, permanently settled communities, population boom, health challenges.
Give three examples of Silk Road transmissions that are NOT Silk.
Religion, especially Buddhism, communicable diseases like the bubonic plague, and trade commodities like porcelain, gems, ivory, glass, fur, etc.
Give three (3) examples of European advantages over New World communities during first-wave conquests.
Guns (technological development), Germs, and Steel
What is a key difference between the American and French revolutions?
American Revolution was very conservation, no major social order change; French revolution completely realigned the social order and destroyed the monarchy.
The Cold War split the world into what categories of country?
First, second, and third world.
Christianity and Buddhism share what appeals as organized religions?
Appeals to lower class and impoverished communities, and destruction of caste / class systems.
What is the key difference between class systems (found primarily in Europe) and caste systems (found primary in the East?)
Social Mobility
The Protestant Reformation occurred initially because:
Rebelling against corruption in the Catholic Church, like the sale of indulgences.
Define: White Man's Burden
European sentiment that is was their "duty" to civilize their colonies, by force if necessary - education and governance especially.
Give two (2) examples of issues / problems surrounding decolonzation movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Pre-industrial conditions, national resources extracted from the country, fragmented political division, exploitation by corporations, fragile democracies, Cold War conditions.
What is the key difference between class and caste systems?
Social Mobility.
What is the major difference between the exploration of Chinese explorers and European explorers?
Treasure and tribute vs. conquest and conversion
What factor(s) encouraged European civilizations to adopt chattel slavery and mercantilism as their prevailing economic systems?
Plantation agriculture of the New World, specific labor intensive commodities like sugarcane.
Give two examples of the "ills of the city," or consequences of industrialization and urbanization.
Proliferation of wage labor, public health crises like cholera and smog, increased population density, child labor, increase in crime
Give one (1) similarity and difference between the Chinese and Russian revolutionary periods.
Similarities - post-revolution terror, underlying philosophies, civil war, pre-industrial pressures / conditions
Difference - target revolutionary populations (urban vs. rural), war conditions (WW1 vs. Japanese invasions)
Define: syncretism
A “blended” religion or culture, fusion of religious elements to form a new / modified religion or culture
Give two (2) impacts of Mongol invasion / rule along Great Asia.
Destruction of Islamic Communities, expansion of the Silk Road and trade of the East, regime / dynasty change in China, fracturing of post-Mongol political dynasties, eventual destruction of nomadic communities.
Give three (3) examples of important exchanges during the Colombian Exchange process, for both the Americas and European societies
Epidemic diseases, livestock, religion, food staples like potatoes, wheat, rice, sugarcane, and coffee, slaves.
What ends China's Century of Humiliation?
Their successful communist revolution and creation of their Great Leap Forward.
Using religious revival movements to create anti-western, anti-globalist sentiment and harken back to an imagined, "better" historical moment. Important to modern day Islamic movements and Christian "religious right" political movements.
European adoption of Christianity was most aided by what historical processes / events?
Adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire, and the construction of Christian feudal states post-Roman collapse.
Which three (3) regions were responsible for "Southernization," and what did this contribute to the global process?
India - textiles, mathematics, sailing technology. China - gunpowder, printing press, compass, agricultural technology. Muslim Civs. - slavery, trading routes
Give two (2) impacts of the Enlightenment on European societies.
Widespread social unrest harnessed to Revolutions, popularized liberal thought of freedom, democracy, citizenship, rejection of the monarchy and absolutism, moral arguments against slavery and serfdom, popularization of the scientific method.
The Ottomans, Qing, and Mughals all share what "flaw(s)" that leads to their downfall?
Poorly industrialized militaries, conservative cultural movements, and being left behind with overseas colonialism.
Define: neo-colonization
Using capitalism and global corporations to replace systems of political and economic oppression in post-colonial countries, especially African and Latin America.