Assignment
Answer the following questions.
Section I: Identification
Compose short but full and complete paragraph answers (6-8 sentences in length) that describe the historical significance of four (4) of the fifteen terms below. Historical significance is more than a simple definition. Your terms should clearly show detailed evidence for how they are important in both the context of the historical period in question and broader course themes.
Choose 4 from the 15 terms below:
Tennis Court Oath The Berlin Conference Giuseppe Mazzini
mercantilism Realpolitik/Weltpolitik Manifest Destiny
Tanzimat reforms Zionism War Capitalism
Religious Toleration/Tolerance Olympe de Gouges Creole
Simón Bolívar Social Contract The Enlightenment
Section II: Short Essay
Compose a short, two to three paragraph essay (8-10 sentences in length each) in answer to one (1) of the following questions:
Choice A - Define nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe. Give and critically analyze two country-specific examples in your answer.
Choice B - Compare "old" and "new" imperialism in the context of the early modern and modern West.
Choice C - Explain the transition from a mercantilist to a capitalist economy in the late-early-modern West and use Sven Beckert's book to support your answer.
Choice D - How did absolutist rulers in 18th century Europe respond to the Enlightenment?
Choice E - What impact did European colonization (from the 1500s-1800s) have on non-western populations around the world?
Section III: Long Essay
Compose a long, four to five paragraph essay (8-10 sentences in length each) in answer to one of the following questions (support your answers with my lectures, the textbook, and all appropriate supplementary readings):
Choice A - How did cotton become global? Use Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton as a springboard for connecting his thesis to course material on nationalism, industrialization, and empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Choice B - Explain and analyze globalization in the late-nineteenth century with that of globalization in the 1100s-1300s.
Choice C - How did the French Revolution lay the foundations for the modern nation-state?
Choice D - What role did nationalism play in the development of modern states during the nineteenth century?