Assignment 1 -
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Part 1: Short Answer
Answer each question in this section. Each answer is worth 5 points for a total of 50 points.
1. Describe the voyages of Zheng He. How did he contribute to the spread of Chinese culture?
2. What role did women play in Parisian salons during the Age of Enlightenment?
3. Why was Timbuktu such an important center of West African trade?
4. What was the importance of coffee houses in Islamic society?
5. How did the Ottoman system of devshirme help to create merit-based opportunities in the military and administration as opposed to the hereditary system practiced in Europe at the time?
6. What new ideas about individual human rights came from the French Revolution?
7. What are the three reasons why the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain?
8. How did the Factory Act of 1833 and the Mines Act of 1842 change the pattern of whole families working together?
9. What is nationalism and what role did it play in revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg's Austrian Empire?
10. According to early French socialists, what is the role of government in socialism?
Part 2: Structured Essay
For this section, you will use the list of terms below in your answer to the essay question.
1. Henry the Navigator
2. Spice trade
3. Caravel
4. Columbian Exchange
5. Middle Passage
6. Mercantilism in reference to colonization
7. The Scramble for Africa
8. Quinine
Essay Question: Why does modern history begin with the Age of Discovery (1450-1650)? What changes did the era of European exploration and expansion bring about? How did this early era of exploration and expansion differ from the later New Imperialism?
Assignment 2 -
Part 1: Short Answer
Answer each question in this section. Each answer is worth 5 points for a total of 50 points.
1. How did the Meiji Restoration modernize Japan?
2. What is the concept of manifest destiny?
3. What event propelled African independence movements?
4. What is apartheid?
5. Why did the Allies win World War II?
6. What explains the dominant role that the Israeli/Palestinian issue has played in Middle Eastern politics since 1945?
7. What were the causes of the Cold War?
8. What role did Gandhi play in Indian independence?
9. Who were the Asian economic tigers?
10. What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?
Part 2: Essay
For this section, you will use the list of terms below in your answer to the essay question.
1. Treaty of Versailles
2. Re-drawing the map of Europe and the Middle East
3. Reparations payments
4. Adolf Hitler
5. Weimar Republic
6. Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks
7. Appeasement 8. Totalitarianism
Essay Question: Your textbook claims that anyone seeking to understand the origins of modern world conflicts must begin with World War I. How did the measures taken by global powers to reestablish peace and stability after World War I directly lead to the outbreak of World War II?