worldhistory

Final Exam Essay

2006-05-04T10:15:00.000-07:00

History 1040: Final Exam Cumulative Essay Questions

THE RULES:

You may bring one (1) 8 and ½ by 11 inches sheet of paper containing essay outlines into the exam with you. You MAY NOT write entire essays on that sheet, but you may write as many outlines in as much detail as you wish.

THE PROCEDURE:

Before starting the exam, you will put your name on your outline and hand it in to me. You will then complete the first four sections of the exam. Once you have completed those sections, you will hand those in and receive your outline back. You may then write the essay (the fifth exam section) on notebook paper. You supply the notebook paper.

I will not change/alter/mutilate/staple or spindle these rules. There will be no exceptions. All disputes will be adjudicated by my German Shepherd, and since I am the exalted Provider of All Milk Bones and Assorted Treats, I will win. Good Luck!

Questions

(Remember that these are cumulative. Use material from throughout the semester.)

1. Provide and explain three factors that led to the rise of Western European global dominance by 1850, and then provide and explain three factors that contributed to the loss of such dominance by 1950.

2. Has religion been more of a unifying or a dividing force in the world since 1500?

3. Find three examples of the transfer of an idea or concept or even a product from one culture or state to another since 1500 and assess the impact of such a transfer on both parties to this exchange.

Review

2006-05-04T10:14:00.000-07:00

Review session is Friday, May 5th, at 10am in Central 218.

World War 2

2006-05-01T08:28:00.000-07:00

World War II: The Extremes of Global Total War

Numbers
60 million global dead

Extent
theaters of war: CBI (CHINA/BURMA/INDIA)
population movements
“COMFORT WOMEN”

Violence
innovations: RADAR, decryption (ALAN TURING)
HIROSHIMA: MANHATTAN PROJECT
BLITZ and DRESDEN: fire bombing

Geopolitical Impacts
China: MAO
MARSHALL PLAN
United Nations
NATO

Culture
Adorno: “no poetry after Auschwitz”

Fascism/Holocaust

2006-05-01T08:26:00.000-07:00

Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust

Nazism and Anti-Semitism

1935: NUREMBURG LAWS
1938: KRISTALLNACHT (November 9-10, 1938)

Holocaust and the “Final Solution”

1939-41: Jewish “ghettoes” in Poland
January 1942: WANNSEE CONFERENCE
ADOLPH EICHMANN: the “banality of evil”
AUSCHWITZ

Great Depression contd.

2006-04-20T11:04:00.000-07:00

Political and Economic Crises in the interwar years

(continued from previous lecture)

Fascism in Europe

What is fascism?
ideology, techniques and organization

Circumstances
WEIMAR REPUBLIC: unstable democracies

Italy
BENITO MUSSOLINI: “IL DUCE”
Fasci di Combattimento: “Band of Combat”

Germany

HITLER and NAZISM
“MEIN KAMPF” (1923)
ENABLING ACT (1933)

Great Depression

2006-04-20T11:03:00.000-07:00

The Great Depression and the Interwar Years

Impact of war

Loss of export markets: IMPORT SUBSTITUTION
Financial costs
Britain: from creditor to debtor
1919 Versailles Conference
REPARATIONS / JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

1924: DAWES PLAN

rise of NYC as global financial center

1929 and the Crash

Black Thursday and Black Tuesday
Global impact

Recipes for recovery?

Effort to alleviate economic stress took many forms
Britain, France and traditional economic thought

Japan: militarization and the “GREATER EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE”

Mexico: nationalization: LAZARO CARDENAS (1934-40)

FDR and the NEW DEAL

What about Germany?

World War I: Global Impact

2006-04-10T14:18:00.000-07:00

World War I: Global Impact

Revolution in Russia: Marxism-Leninism in practice

V.I. LENIN, LEON TROTSKY
Revolutions of 1917

JOSEPH STALIN and “socialism in one country”
Collectivization: KULAKS

Europe and the Arab World

SYKES-PICOT TREATY (1916)
Balfour Declaration (1917)
HASHEMITES
The Mandate System: Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Trans-Jordan

Global War

2006-04-10T13:55:00.000-07:00

World War I: The War to End All Wars?

Unprecedented in three aspects: scope, means and impact.

Scope: a truly global war: not just between states, but between empires
WESTERN FRONT, Atlantic Ocean, GALLIPOLI, Palestine

Battlefield and Home Front: “Total War”

Numbers: Those fighting and those who died

Means: technology, tactics and weaponry

Trench Warfare: Mud, shells and gas
U-BOATS
casualties: THE SOMME (1916)

Impact:

Political and Economic (still to come)
Social/Cultural
a literary war: WILFRED OWEN: “DULCE ET DECORUM EST”
Commemoration and Remembrance
UNKNOWN SOLDIER: John Dos Passos
KATHE KOLLWITZ

Essay assignment #2

2006-04-10T13:54:00.000-07:00

History 1040: Paper #2
Due: 4/19 for M/W and 4/20 for T/Th class.

Please write on ONE of the following, using the documents, your textbook and your notes only. There is no need for outside sources or research. Three (3) pages maximum.

1. Read the Azamgarh Proclamation (A/O, 334-6) by the Indian rebels of 1857. What were their grievances, and what had the British done in India to provoke such a reaction?
2. Compare the Golden Dawn cigarette ad and Australian recruitment poster (A/O 375-6) to the British soldier’s journal on 378-81. What images of the First World War are presented here, and what do these items tell us about the relation ship between the home and war fronts during the conflict?
3. What do the illustrations on A/O 358-9 relay about the changes Japan experienced in the late nineteenth century?

Balances of Power, East and West

2006-04-05T08:59:00.000-07:00

Balances of Power: East and West

Japan and the United States at the start of the 20th century

Japan

Tokugawa Shogunate: “BAFUKU”

Matthew Perry, 1853-4

Emperor MEIJI (Mutsuhito)
“MEIJI RESTORATION”

ZAIBATSU

1904-5: Japanese-Russian War

United States

1890: ALFRED THAYER MAHAN

1893: Hawaii

“JINGOISM”

THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Roosevelt Corollary
1903: Panamanian revolt
Panama Canal

Balances of Power, East and West

2006-04-05T08:58:00.000-07:00

Short essay questions

2006-03-21T15:11:00.000-08:00

Three of these will be on the exam and you'll write on two of them.

1. What was the major difference between Owen's utopian socialism and Marx's scientific socialism?

2. Name three technological/medical changes that allowed European colonization of Africa in the late 1800s. Which was most important and why?

3. Why did Rammohun Roy found the Brahmo Samaj?

4. How did Social Darwinist ideas affect public policy in the United States in the early twentieth century?

5. What was life like for industrial workers in the new manufacturing cities of the nineteenth century?

Religious revivals - 19th Century

2006-03-14T15:19:00.000-08:00

Religious Revival in the 19th Century

Christianity and the “Modern”
“Apes versus Angels”

Pius IX: “THE SYLLABUS OF ERRORS” (1864)

continuation of anti-Semitism
POGROMS: 1866: Poland, Ukraine / 1871: Odessa

Hinduism and Colonialism in India

RAMMOHUN ROY (1772-1833)
BRAHMO SAMAJ (1828)

ARYA SAMAJ (1875)

Varieties of Islam

Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792): WAHHABISM

Mahdi: Sudan, 1881-98

Muslim Brotherhood – Egypt

Indian Islam: SAYYID AHMED KHAN (1817-1898)
Aligarh Muslim University

Imperialism and Resistance

2006-03-12T16:29:00.000-08:00

Imperialism and Resistance

Late 19th century: Age of Imperialism (part 2)

Motives
State rivalries
France and REVANCHE
Leopold II and the BELGIAN CONGO
Britain, India and the Suez Canal

Economics: global depression of 1870s-80s
Cheap resources and captive markets

Means
Technology
Steamships, QUININE and the machine gun
1898: Battle of Omdurman
1896: Battle of ADOWA

State control
1857: INDIAN REBELLION

Justifications

SOCIAL DARWINISM
The “CIVILIZING MISSION”

Darwin's World

2006-03-08T13:42:00.000-08:00

Darwin, Evolution and “Social Darwinism”

CHARLES DARWIN (1809-82)
1859: “The Origin of Species”
NATURAL SELECTION
1871: “The Descent of Man”

The Uses of Darwinism

the rise of “SOCIAL DARWINISM”
HERBERT SPENCER (1820-1903): “SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST”
intersection with liberalism and nationalism
competition and struggle as human condition
National survival
Darwinian model of international politics
imperialism and scientific racism
EUGENICS and national strength
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

Your moment of zen

2006-03-01T20:24:00.000-08:00

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Liberalism, Nationalism etc.

2006-03-01T20:21:00.000-08:00

Liberalism, Nationalism and Socialism

Context for emerging political ideas:

Industrialization: Middle and working classes
Revolutions in the USA and France
Napoleonic Wars in Europe

Liberalism: new towns, new wealth and status

Liberty, order and individualism
Constitutions and Parliaments
BENJAMIN CONSTANT
JOHN STUART MILL
Responsibility and Participation
1832 REFORM ACT
Economics
CORN LAWS

Nationalism: French Revolution and French Conquests

Latin America: SIMON BOLIVAR (1783-1830)
Germany: “BURSENSCHAFTEN”
Daniel O’Connell and Irish Nationalism
Giuseppe Mazzini and the Risorgimento

Socialism and Industry

Utopian Socialists: ROBERT OWEN
Scientific Socialists: KARL MARK
“COMMUNIST MANIFESTO” (1848)

Outline: Industrial Revolution(s)

2006-02-27T20:42:00.000-08:00

Outline: Industrial Revolution(s)

Origins and “Take-Off”

Preconditions
Markets, consumers, savings
Industry in Britain
Preconditions plus resources
JAMES WATT and MATTHEW BOULTON: Steam Engine
Power looms, spinning jennies
GEORGE STEPHENSON, “The Rocket” (1830)
railways
LANCASHIRE
Britain as “workshop of the world”

Global Industrialization
United States: LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS
Amos Lawrence
Germany
Ruhr Valley, Rhineland
France
Lille

Impact: Global and Local

The Geography of Industry: Suppliers and Manufacturers
India: from exports to imports
USA: north vs. south: industry and the Civil War
A new Eurocentrism

New Towns, New Lives

Impact of industrialization: blessing or curse?
CHARLES DICKENS, “COKETOWN”
Factory Acts

Opportunities
LOWELL MILL GIRLS

European Expansion: The Atlantic

2006-02-20T14:25:00.000-08:00

Hernan Cortes
Potosi
smallpox
Virginia Company, 1607
Massachusetts Bay Company, 1630

Outline: Britain and India, 1757-1857

2006-02-15T09:11:00.000-08:00

•Context: Mughal decline post-1707

•BENGAL
•Nawabs of Bengal: SIRAJ-UD-DAULA
•East India Company: ROBERT CLIVE
•JAGHAT SETHS
•MIR JAFAR
•BATTLE OF PLASSEY, 1757

•East India Company Rule
•DIWAN, 1765
•Economic and Social Consequences

Outline: Atlantic Revolutions

2006-02-13T10:12:00.000-08:00

•Themes: context, radicalism, legacy

–USA: 1776
–THOMAS JEFFERSON, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1776
–Rhetoric vs. Practice in the new republic

–France, 1789
–DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN, 1789
–MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE
–“THE TERROR”
–OLYMPE DE GOUGES

–Haiti, 1804
–TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE
–LEGER SONTHONAX

Paper topics

2006-02-09T15:28:00.000-08:00

History 1040: Paper #1: Due 2/15/06: 2-3 pages

Please answer one of the following. Remember that a good argument uses evidence and requires organization and clarity. Please proof read. An excessive number of errors in grammar and syntax will count against you.

1. What do Jahangir’s Memoirs (A/O, 52-56) tell us about how the Mughal Empire managed to rule successfully such a diverse place as India in the 1500s and early 1600s?
2. What reasons for colonization does Richard Hakluyt offer to Elizabeth I? Which did he stress most, and why?
3. Using the painting of Versailles (Bulliet, 381), please discuss how Louis XIV used architecture to demonstrate and defend his power.

Outline: Slavery in the Atlantic World

2006-02-08T13:27:00.000-08:00

Outline 2: Slavery in the Atlantic World (keywords in CAPS)

Global slavery pre-1400
Aristotle
Athens/Rome/Africa
Christianity and slavery

Plantation labor in Spanish/Portuguese colonies
ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM
BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, 1474-1566

Why African slavery?
1453
justifications
philosophical/religious/pragmatic

Chronology
1440s: first Africans taken to Portugal
1518: Spanish ASIENTO
1621: Dutch West India Company
1672: ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY

Impact
indigenous African societies: KONGO
“MIDDLE PASSAGE”
demographics
slave states vs. slave societies
slave ports: BRISTOL and LIVERPOOL

European Expansion I: Asia

2006-02-08T13:25:00.000-08:00

Caravel
Prince Henry the Navigator, 1394-1460
Sagres
Vasco da Gama
Goa
East India Company, 1601
Surat
Calcutta

State Consolidation - Europe

2006-02-02T14:43:00.000-08:00

Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan"
"Divine right of kings"
Bishop Bossuet
Louis XIV (r.1643-1714)
Peter the Great (r.1682-1725)
Versailles
St. Petersburg
"enlightened despotism"

State Consolidation: Asia

2006-01-31T14:14:00.000-08:00

•Ming Dynasty
•Hongwu
•Forbidden City
•Mughal Empire
•Akbar
•Jizya
•Agra
•Aurangzeb

World in 1500 keywords

2006-01-26T11:46:00.000-08:00

Vijayanagar•Axial rudder•Zheng He•Venice•Trans-Sahara•Mali•Calicut•Surat•Mombasa•Mogadishu•Ibn-Majid

Tuesday/Thursday

2006-01-26T11:44:00.000-08:00

History 1040
The World Since 1500

Metropolitan State College of Denver
Spring 2006
South Classroom 121: T/Th: 1-2:15pm

Dr. Andrew Muldoon
211K Central (303-352-4422)
amuldoo1@mscd.edu
muldoonandrew@yahoo.com
Office Hours: M/W: 10-noon and 2:30-3:30 (or by appt)

Overview: This course focuses on the various forces that have shaped our modern world, including trade, technology, colonialism and religion, just to name a few. We will look at both broad themes, and specific moments in human history. This course has several goals: to introduce you to people, events and ideas from the past; to demonstrate how historians work and use evidence; to encourage you to develop your ability to think critically and write effectively; and to increase your understanding of the contemporary world.

Requirements: To benefit fully from this class, and to succeed in it, you must do a few things. You must attend the lectures, even if you need to attend one outside of your own section because of a conflict. You must be both physically AND mentally present in class: take good notes, ask questions and participate in discussions. You must complete all assigned work on time. This includes the reading, which should be completed BEFORE each class.

Grades/Policies: We will have three exams. The first two will be worth 20% each of your grade. The third will be worth 30%. The two papers are worth 25%, and the remaining 5% will include quizzes and class participation. I will allow make-up exams for the first two only, and on certain specific conditions. You must contact me before the exam itself: no emails later in the day after the test, for example. You must take the make-up within two days of the scheduled date. On the papers, late submissions will cost a grade per day, unless you have seen me before the due date with an extraordinary conflict.

Student Conduct: Please be respectful of your fellow students and instructor by adhering to some basic civilities in the class. Please do not bring food to class. Drinks are fine. Please turn off all cellphones before class starts. Please remove all hats when seated in class; we all have bad hair days and we can support each other. If you enter class late, please take the first seat available near the door; do not walk past me if at all possible. I take academic honesty seriously and expect you to do so as well. Violations of academic honesty will at best merit a failing grade on the project, and at worst merit referral to the appropriate judicial office at Metro.

Books: Please purchase the following. We may also have some handouts.

Bulliet, Crossley et al., The Earth and its Peoples: Third Edition,
Volume 2: since 1500 (ISBN 0618471162)

Andrea/Overfield, The Human Record: Sources of Global History
Fifth Edition, Volume 2: since 1500 (ISBN 0618370412)

Class Schedule:

Jan. 17 Introduction

Jan. 19 Reading a Primary Source
Andrea/Overfield, 15-18: “Teaching the Young in Tokugawa Japan”
Be prepared to discuss this document!

Jan. 24 The Trading Worlds of 1500
Bulliet, 337-357

Jan. 26 State Consolidation in Asia
Bulliet, 411-445
A/O, 23-26: “Ming Decline” and 40-68: “The Islamic Heartland in India”

Jan. 31 Absolutism in Europe
Bulliet, 364-386, 445-453
A/O, 173-181: “Russia and the West in the 18th Century”

Feb. 2 European Expansion: East
A/O, 29-39; 86-94: “European Exploration and Expansion”

Feb. 7 European Expansion: West
Bulliet, 387-410 and A/O, Chapter 4: “Africa and the Americas”

Feb. 9 Slavery in the Atlantic World
A/O, 204-215: Africa’s Curse: The Slave Trade

Feb. 14 Atlantic Revolutions
Bulliet, 457-479 and A/O, 181-203: Revolutions
PAPER #1 DUE

Feb. 16 From the Mughals to the Raj: South Asia, 1750-1857
Bulliet, 498-517 and A/O: 221-3, 330-6

Feb. 21 Exam 1

Feb. 23 Industrial Revolution(s)
Bulliet, 480-493 and A/O, 265-274: “Middle Class and Working Class..”

March 2 An Age of Ideology?: Liberalism, Socialism, Nationalism
Bulliet, 493-497 and A/O: 275-280

March 7 Urbanization and Urbanites
Bulliet, 548-556

March 9 Darwin’s World
A/O, 281-4

March 14 Colonization and Resistance
Bulliet, 569-595 and A/O: 293-307, 310-318, 339-341

March 16 Religious Revival and Anti-Colonialism
A/O: 224-232

March 28 Balances of Power, East and West
Bulliet, 557-567 and A/O: 293-296, 349-361

March 30 Exam 2

April 4 World at War: part 1
Bulliet, 596-617

April 6 World at War, part 2
A/O: 372-393

April 11 The Great Crash
Bulliet, 619-628, 652-660; A/O: 394-8, 453-5

April 13 Japan and Empire in Asia
Bulliet, 629-631 and A/O: 399-404

April 18 Global War
Bulliet, 631-639 and A/O: 405-418
PAPER #2 DUE

April 20 China’s Long March
A/O: 456-465, 505-510

April 25 Cold Warriors
Bulliet, 669-687 and A/O: 468-477, 511-4

April 27 A Post-Colonial World
Bulliet, 641-651 and A/O: 419-447, 478-481

May 2 1989: The End of History, or maybe not?
Bulliet, 689-710 and A/O: 515-524

May 4 Review

Monday/Wednesday Syllabus

2006-01-26T11:43:00.000-08:00

History 1040
The World Since 1500

Metropolitan State College of Denver
Spring 2006
Central Classroom 218: M/W, 1-2:15pm and 4-5:15pm

Dr. Andrew Muldoon
211K Central (303-352-4422)
amuldoo1@mscd.edu
muldoonandrew@yahoo.com
Office Hours: M/W: 10-noon and 2:30-3:30 (or by appt)

Overview: This course focuses on the various forces that have shaped our modern world, including trade, technology, colonialism and religion, just to name a few. We will look at both broad themes, and specific moments in human history. This course has several goals: to introduce you to people, events and ideas from the past; to demonstrate how historians work and use evidence; to encourage you to develop your ability to think critically and write effectively; and to increase your understanding of the contemporary world.

Requirements: To benefit fully from this class, and to succeed in it, you must do a few things. You must attend the lectures, even if you need to attend one outside of your own section because of a conflict. You must be both physically AND mentally present in class: take good notes, ask questions and participate in discussions. You must complete all assigned work on time. This includes the reading, which should be completed BEFORE each class.

Grades/Policies: We will have three exams. The first two will be worth 20% each of your grade. The third will be worth 30%. The two papers are worth 25%, and the remaining 5% will include quizzes and class participation. I will allow make-up exams for the first two only, and on certain specific conditions. You must contact me before the exam itself: no emails later in the day after the test, for example. You must take the make-up within two days of the scheduled date. On the papers, late submissions will be docked a grade per day, unless you have approached me before the due date with an extraordinary conflict.

Student Conduct: Please be respectful of your fellow students and instructor by adhering to some basic civilities in the class. Please do not bring food to class. Drinks are fine. Please turn off all cellphones before class starts. Please remove all hats when seated in class; we all have bad hair days and we can support each other. If you enter class late, please take the first seat available near the door; do not walk past me if at all possible. I take academic honesty seriously and expect you to do so as well. Violations of academic honesty will at best merit a failing grade on the project, and at worst merit referral to the appropriate judicial office at Metro.

Books: Please purchase the following. We may also have some handouts.

Bulliet, Crossley et al., The Earth and its Peoples: Third Edition,
Volume 2: since 1500 (ISBN 0618471162)

Andrea/Overfield, The Human Record: Sources of Global History
Fifth Edition, Volume 2: since 1500 (ISBN 0618370412)

Class Schedule:

Jan. 18 Introduction

Jan. 23 Reading a Primary Source
Andrea/Overfield, 15-18: “Teaching the Young in Tokugawa Japan”
Be prepared to discuss this document!

Jan. 25 The Trading Worlds of 1500
Bulliet, 337-357

Jan. 30 State Consolidation in Asia
Bulliet, 411-445
A/O, 23-26: “Ming Decline” and 40-68: “The Islamic Heartland in India”

Feb. 1 Absolutism in Europe
Bulliet, 364-386, 445-453
A/O, 173-181: “Russia and the West in the 18th Century”

Feb. 6 European Expansion: East
A/O, 29-39; 86-94: “European Exploration and Expansion”

Feb. 8 European Expansion: West
Bulliet, 387-410 and A/O, Chapter 4: “Africa and the Americas”

Feb. 13 Slavery in the Atlantic World
A/O, 204-215: Africa’s Curse: The Slave Trade

Feb. 15 Atlantic Revolutions
Bulliet, 457-479 and A/O, 181-203: Revolutions
PAPER #1 DUE

Feb. 20 From the Mughals to the Raj: South Asia, 1750-1857
Bulliet, 498-517 and A/O: 221-3, 330-6

Feb. 22 Exam 1

Feb. 27 Industrial Revolution(s)
Bulliet, 480-493 and A/O, 265-274: “Middle Class and Working Class..”

March 1 An Age of Ideology?: Liberalism, Socialism, Nationalism
Bulliet, 493-497 and A/O: 275-280

March 6 Urbanization and Urbanites
Bulliet, 548-556

March 8 Darwin’s World
A/O, 281-4

March 13 Colonization and Resistance
Bulliet, 569-595 and A/O: 293-307, 310-318, 339-341

March 15 Religious Revival and Anti-Colonialism
A/O: 224-232

March 27 Balances of Power, East and West
Bulliet, 557-567 and A/O: 293-296, 349-361

March 29 Exam 2

April 3 World at War: part 1
Bulliet, 596-617

April 5 World at War, part 2
A/O: 372-393

April 10 The Great Crash
Bulliet, 619-628, 652-660; A/O: 394-8, 453-5

April 12 Japan and Empire in Asia
Bulliet, 629-631 and A/O: 399-404

April 17 Global War
Bulliet, 631-639 and A/O: 405-418
PAPER #2 DUE

April 19 China’s Long March
A/O: 456-465, 505-510

April 24 Cold Warriors
Bulliet, 669-687 and A/O: 468-477, 511-4

April 26 A Post-Colonial World
Bulliet, 641-651 and A/O: 419-447, 478-481

May 1 1989: The End of History, or maybe not?
Bulliet, 689-710 and A/O: 515-524

May 3 Review