Unit 2 Study Guide Spring 2020 Revised PDF

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History 1112 Unit 2 Study Guide

Lecture 9: Transformation in Early Modern China Terms: Kong Fuzi/Confucius (551-479 BC); the Hongwu Emperor (r. 1368-1398); the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402-1424); Timur the Lame (1336-1405) Review Questions: 1) How does tradition shape the Chinese vision of the ideal society? 2) What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Ming Dynasty?

Lecture 10: Of Shoguns and Emperors Terms: Sengoku Period (c. 1467-c. 1568); Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582); Tokugawa Ieyasu (r. 1603-1605); the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1868); Taihei (1603-1853) Review Questions: 1) What influences shaped early Japanese civilization? 2) In what ways did the Tokugawa shoguns create a new Japan? Could a similar experience have emerged in Europe? Why/why not? Lecture 11: Colonization Among Rivals Terms: Bullion and Beavers; Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635); the English Seadogs; Barbados; Queen Nzinga (r. 1583-1663) Review Questions: 1) How factors shaped the futures of New France, the English colonies, and Central Africa? 2) Which colonial power was the most just in its interactions with the people in the colonies? Why?

Lecture 12: The Thirty Years War Terms: James I Stuart (r. 1603-1625), the English Civil War (1642-1651), Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) F16 Review Questions: 1) Were the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War religious disputes, political disputes, or something else? 2) What were the long-term effects of the Thirty Years War?

Lecture 13: The Scientific Revolution

Terms: The Scientific Revolution (c. 1543-c. 1687), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Review Questions: 1) How was the Scientific Revolution a significant factor in the rise of secular society? 2) Were Hobbes, Descartes, and the others products of their eras? In other words, would Hobbes have “happened” without the English Civil War?

Lecture 14: The Ascendancy of France Terms: Absolutism, Louis XIV (1638-1715), the Palace of Versailles, Mercantilism, Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and the Balance of Power, Carlos II and the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714) Review Questions: 1) Was Louis XIV’s reign a success?

Lecture 15: A “Glorious Revolution” in England: The Dawn of Liberalism Terms: Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and the Commonwealth; the Glorious Revolution (1688); John Locke (1632-1704) and the Two Treatises on Government; William and Mary (r. 1688-1702) Review Questions: 1) How did England differ from Louis XIV’s France? 2) What factors brought about the Glorious Revolution?

Lecture 16: The Rise of Russia Terms: The Golden Horde in Russia (1237-1480), Ivan III the Great (r. 1462-1505), the Oprichnina, Ivan IV the Terrible (r. 1533-1584), Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725) Review Questions: 1) In what ways is Russia the heir of both Roman and Mongolian legacies? 2) How did Ivan IV and Peter shape Russian history?

Lecture 17: India and the Mughal Empire Terms:

Samsara and Moksha; Siddhartha Gautama (c. 566-486); Timur the Lame (1336-1405); the Mughal Empire (1526-1858); Akbar the Great (r. 1556-1605); Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) Review Questions: 1) How is Buddhism an outgrowth of Hinduism? How is it distinct? 2) In what ways did the Mughal Empire continue the traditions of Indian history? In what ways did it break them?...