Assignments

//Below you will find questions for each of the chapters we will discuss in class. You are responsible for reading the text and answering the questions. Some of these questions should be answered in your notebook for class discussion, while others will be turned in as graded assignments.// 


 * __**20th Century Timeline Assignment**__

You may use these websites for information:

http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/timelinedisplay.cfm?era_id=16

http://www.dudeman.net/history.html

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/lesson_plans/lesson3_chronology.pdf ||  

__European Industry and Empire (pp. 879-82) __ 1. In one sentence how would you describe the global community in the 18th and 19th century? 2. During the 19th century, Europe became the center of the world economy. Why did this happen? 3. What is imperialism and why was it important to the industrial West (Europe, the US)? 4. How did the Industrial Revolution influence nineteenth-century European imperialism? 5. How did Europeans view Asians and Africans before the nineteenth century? 6. What contributed to changing European views of Asians and Africans in the nineteenth century? 7. How did the European attitudes toward race which developed by the nineteenth century influence imperialist activities? 8. What was the “civilizing mission” and what affect did it have on native populations of non-industrialized areas?
 * **__Chapter 19: Reading Questions __**

__Reversal of Fortune: China’s Century of Crisis (pp. 882-89) __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Why did massive peasant rebellions happen in 19th-century China? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What kind of society did the leaders of the Taiping uprising envision for China? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why did opium become important in China by the early- to mid-1800s? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why did China and Britain go to war over opium? What was at stake? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Explain why China was unable to enter into the modern world as an equal player among industrialized nations. <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Why was China unable to respond effectively to mounting pressures from the West in the 19th century? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What was the response among the Chinese educated elite to the failure of Chinese “self-strengthening”?

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ottoman Empire – “The Sick Man of Europe” (pp. 889-94) __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. In what different ways did the Ottoman state respond to its various problems? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. In what different ways did various groups define the Ottoman Empire during the 19th Century? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Explain the similarities and differences of what happened in China and in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century.

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Japanese Difference: The Rise of a New East Asian Power (pp. 894-902) __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How did Japan’s historical development differ from that of China and the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. In what ways was Japan changing during the Tokugawa era? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Does Japan’s 19th-century transformation deserve to be considered revolutionary? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. How did Japan’s relationship to the larger world change during its modernization process? ||

__<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Explaining the Industrial Revolution (pp. 825-32) __ <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Provide a definition of industrialization. <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Explain the origins of industrialization. <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why did the Industrial Revolution start first in Europe and not in Asia? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in England first? What factors were present in England that led to the industrialization of that country?
 * __**<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ch. 18 - The Industrial Revolution **__

__<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">First Industrial Society (pp. 832-39) __ <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. How did the Industrial Revolution transform European society? (Think about effects on social structure, daily life, perceptions of class, etc.) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Explain how the middle and laboring classes benefited from industrialization. What were the negative consequences for these two groups? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Explain how industrialization led to the growth of social protest movements. <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What was Karl Marx’s opinion of the Industrial Revolution? In what ways did his ideas have an impact on the industrializing world of the 19th century?

__<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Comparing Industrialization in the US & Russia (pp. 840-46) __ <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. How did the social structure in Russia influence industrialization in Russia? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. What led to the industrialization of Russia? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. What were the differences between industrialization in the United States and in Russia? (Think about origins and changes caused by industrialization, for example.) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. Why did Marxism not take root in the United States? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. What factors contributed to the making of a revolutionary situation in Russia by the beginning of the 20th century?

__<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Industrial Revolution in Latin America (pp. 846-53) __ <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. Why did Latin America not industrialize? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. How was Latin America linked to the world economy and what impact did that have on Latin America? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. Did Latin America follow or diverge from the historical path of Europe during the 19th century? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. Ultimately what resulted from the export boom in Latin America? What long-term effects did that have? ||

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What is a revolution? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. How did the Enlightenment contribute to the Atlantic Revolutions? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What were the basic causes of the American Revolution? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What was revolutionary about the American Revolution and what was not? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Explain the causes of the French Revolution. What Enlightenment ideas influenced the French Revolution? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. How did the French Revolution differ from the American Revolution? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What were the results of the French Revolution? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Describe Haitian society in the late 18th century. What goal did each socio-economic group have for their Revolution? (What changes did each want to bring about?) <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What set off the Haitian Revolution and what changes were brought about by the Revolution? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. What were the long-term effects of the Haitian Revolution? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. How was the situation experienced by Spanish creoles similar to that of the British colonists in North America? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. What was the main cause of revolution in Central and South America? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. How did the Spanish American Revolutions differ from that of North America? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. Explain how the Spanish American Revolutions redefined Spanish society in the Americas. <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. Compare and contrast the long-term results of the North American and South American Revolutions.
 * __**<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 17 Reading Questions **__
 * <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Atlantic Revolutions
 * <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">French Revolution
 * <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Haitian Revolution
 * <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">South American Revolutions

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Echoes of Revolution __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">*Abolition of Slavery <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What accounts for the end of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century? Be sure to explain the influence of both events and ideas on the abolition of slavery. <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Why did slavery continue to persist in some areas longer than in others? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. How did the end of slavery affect the lives of the former slaves? What effect did it have on agriculture in areas where slavery had existed?

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">*Nationalism <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What is nationalism? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What accounts for the growth of nationalism as a powerful political and personal identity in the nineteenth century? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. What changes in Europe came about because of nationalism?

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">*Beginnings of Feminism <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What were the achievements and limitations of nineteenth-century feminism? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Why did women in Europe and America develop a feminist consciousness? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. Why was suffrage such an important issue for the feminist movement? ||

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How did the Scientific Revolution influence the era referred to as the Enlightenment? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. In what way did the Enlightenment challenge older patterns of European thinking? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What are the main characteristics of the Enlightenment? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. How did Enlightenment thinkers view government? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What did Enlightenment thinkers think about religion? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. In what way did “global awareness” influence the Enlightenment? <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Explain the significance of each of the following. Include information about where they were from, what they wrote about, and what their main ideas were. <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> John Locke (1632-1704) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Marquis de Condorcet (1743-94) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Mary Astell (1666-1731) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Olympe de Gouges (1745-1793) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Voltaire (1694-1778) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> David Hume (1711-1776) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Denis Diderot (1713-84) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) <span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Adam Smith (1723-90) ||
 * __**<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Questions for the Enlightenment (pp. 742-45) **__

<span style="color: #014141; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Using details/examples answer the following question:
 * __**<span style="color: #014141; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Spread of Religion & Changes to Religion Essay: **__

//<span style="color: #014141; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 140%;">As religions spread to new areas, they undergo changes. Explain how Christianity and Islam each changed as they spread to new regions. //


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">DUE MONDAY - APRIL 1 **

<span style="color: #014141; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Essay may be hand-written or typed, should be double-spaced, and must be **at least one page** in length. ||

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Protestant Reformation __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What was the main reason that it began? How did it spread? What was the appeal? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. In what ways did the Protestant Reformation transform European society, culture, and politics? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What explains the furor which erupted during the Wars of Religion? Can you think of any issues in American society today that could lead to such a reaction? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why were women drawn to the Protestant Reformation? Were their expectations met? In what ways did the Reformation negatively affect women? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What role did the printing press play in the Protestant Reformation?
 * **__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chapter 16 – Religion & Science __**

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Catholic or Counter Reformation __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. In what ways did the Catholic Church aim to counter the appeal of the Reformation? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Why did the Protestant Reformation appeal to women? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. How did women participate in the Counter Reformation? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What reforms did the papacy enact in response to the Protestant Reformation? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. Consider how the changes brought about by the Reformation influenced the Scientific Revolution. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. Be prepared to explain the conflict that surrounded the scientific advances that were made during the 16th and 17th centuries. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. Be able to identify the major discoveries/advancements of the Scientific Revolution

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Spread of Christianity __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How was European imperial expansion related to the spread of Christianity? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. How were the Spanish able to spread Christianity into American and the Philippines? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. How was Christianity blended into Native American culture? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why were the natives in Spanish America willing to accept the religion of their conquerors? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Explain how native Americans attempted to maintain or keep their religious traditions? What did the Europeans do to get rid of these traditional practices? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Why were missionary efforts to spread Christianity so much less successful in China than in Spanish America?

__<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Persistence and Change in Afro-Asian Cultural Traditions __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How did the slave trade influence the spread of Christianity? And how did the African cultures affect religions in the New World? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Why did the spread of Islam during the early modern era lead to changes in that religion? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why were the changes to Islam seen as a problem by orthodox Muslims? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why did the Ming & Qing Dynasties promote Neo-Confucianism? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Explain the debate over Neo-Confucianism that developed during the early modern era. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. In what ways did Asian cultural changes in the Early Modern era parallel those of Europe, and in what ways were they different? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. How did changes in Hinduism in India affect women?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Scientific Revolution__ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Define what the Scientific Revolution was in one phrase. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What was the long-term significance of the Scientific Revolution? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why did the Scientific Revolution occur in Europe rather than in China or the Islamic World? Why would the Islamic world and China have been good candidates for leadership in the Scientific Revolution? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What was revolutionary about the Scientific Revolution? ||


 * __**<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Chapter 15 – Global Commerce – Reading Questions **__

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Europeans and Asian Commerce (pp. 674-75) __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">1. What were the reasons for why the Europeans wanted to get involved in Asian commerce? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">2. What challenges did they face in trying to get involved in Asian commerce?

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Portugal (675-77) __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">3. What role did Vasco da Gama play in Portugal’s entrance into the Asian commercial markets? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">4. What did the Portuguese discover once they made their way into the trading routes in the Indian Ocean? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">5. How did the Chinese influence the Portuguese involvement in trade in the Indian Ocean? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">6. What advantage did the Portuguese have over the small-scale merchants who were trading in the Indian Ocean in the late 15th and early 16th centuries? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">7. Why might the Portuguese have wanted to only create a trading post empire instead of a territorial empire? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">8. The Portuguese king saw these trading opportunities as a means of person self-enrichment. How did the Portuguese efforts to create a trading post empire benefit regular Portuguese? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">9. When the Portuguese realized that they would not be able to dominate the Asian trade networks by force, how did they attempt to at least maintain a presence there?

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Spain and the Philippines __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. Who was responsible for making the Spanish aware of the area of the Philippines as potential strategic foothold in the Pacific? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. What conditions led the Spanish to set up direct rule over the Philippines rather than a trading post empire? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. How did religion play a role in the Spanish conquest/control of the area and of the area surrounding the Philippines? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. What changes did the Spanish rule bring about within the Philippines?

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">East India Companies __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How did the British and Dutch differ from the Portuguese in their approach to organizing their Indian Ocean commercial ventures? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Describe how the Dutch maintained control over their commercial territories in Indonesia. <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why were the British forced to focus their commercial efforts in the Indian Ocean to India instead of being able to also trade in the Spice Islands? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why were the British unable to practice “trade by warfare” in India? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. The British were not as successful as the Dutch in creating a monopoly over the spice trade. What other product did they rely on for their commercial success in the area?

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Asian Commerce __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Explain how the attitude of the Japanese toward the Europeans changed from the mid-sixteenth century to the early seventeenth century. (You will need to compare what the attitude of the Japanese was toward Europeans in the 16th century with what it was in the 17th century.)

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. In spite of the dominance of European navies in Asian waters, in what way did the Chinese and other Asian peoples continue to have a presence in the area?

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Silver and Global Commerce__ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How did the silver trade begin? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What was the world historical importance of the silver trade? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What role did China play in the demand for silver? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What was the silver drain? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. How did silver transform much that it touched? (How did it affect the areas and peoples that were involved in the silver trade?) <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Spain and Japan both benefited from the discovery of silver in their territories. How did they both utilize their new-found wealth and which used the wealth more effectively?

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Slave Trade Section (pp. 689-97) __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What were the different forms that slavery took? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What explains the rise of the Atlantic slave trade? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why was the Atlantic slave trade targeted toward trade in Africans? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What roles did Europeans and Africans play in the unfolding of the Atlantic slave trade? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. How did the Atlantic slave trade change over time? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. What was the source of slaves for the slave trade? What was the destination of the slaves who were transported as part of the Atlantic slave trade? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. In what different ways did the Atlantic slave trade transform African societies? (What were the results of the slave trade for the African societies?)

__<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The “World Hunt”: Fur in Global Commerce (pp. 685-88) __ <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What caused an increase in demand for fur during the late 16th and early 17th century? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Describe the impact of the fur trade on North American societies. <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. How did the North American and Siberian fur trades differ from each other? What did they have in common? ||

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(Ch. 13 Review) – Explain how religion and trade created webs of connection between the various regions of the world.
 * **__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reading Questions for Chapter 14 __**

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Europeans in America (pp. 626-39) __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">» European Advantage (pp. 626-28) <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Why did the Europeans begin to explore the Americas? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Explain how Europeans were able to create such large empires in the Americas?

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">» The Great Dying (p. 629) <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What was the Great Dying? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why did it happen to Native Americans and not Europeans? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. How might the Europeans have viewed the Great Dying?

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">» Columbian Exchange (p. 629-31) <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. What was the Columbian Exchange? What kinds of things were exchanged? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Was it an equal exchange?

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Comparing Colonial Societies in the Americas (pp. 631-39) __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What was the economic foundation of colonial rule in Mexico and Peru? How did it shape the kinds of societies that arose there? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Compare and contrast the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean with those in British North America. <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What were the main differences between the South American colonies and the colonies of North America? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What is the difference between slavery and indentured servitude?

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Steppes and Siberia: Making of a Russian Empire (pp. 639-43) __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Explain why the Russian empire remained intact long after the Spanish, Portuguese, and British empires had fallen apart. <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What motivated Russian empire building? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. How did the rulers of this growing empire secure their territory? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. How did the Russian Empire transform the life of its conquered people and of the Russian homeland itself? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. How did the growth of the Russian Empire transform Russia? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. In what way was their growth as a European and as an Asian power the cause of a sort of “identity crisis”? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What was the main difference between the way the Russians created their empire and the way the Spanish and British created their empires? What long-term affect has this had on the global community?

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Asian Empires (pp. 643-50) __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What were the major features of Chinese empire building? What had they decided to give up in their empire building efforts? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. How did the fact that the Qing Dynasty was of Manchurian origins affect the way the empire was created? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why did the Russian empire-building efforts and the Chinese empire-building efforts a source of potential conflict in Asia, and how were these tensions resolved? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What were the long-term effects of the Chinese empire building? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. In what way was the creation of the Mughal Empire a benefit to the region? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. How did Mughal attitudes and policies toward Hindus change from the time of Akbar to that of Aurangzeb? What were the long-term effects of the latter’s policies? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. Explain how of the Ottoman sultans were successful in holding their territory together. <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. In what ways was the Ottoman Empire important for Europe in the early modern era? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. Discuss the different perspectives of the Ottoman Empire. How did some people view them in a positive light while others saw them as a threat? With which perspective to you most agree? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. Why were the European empire-building efforts discussed in this chapter more significant in a global context than the Russian, Mughal, and Chinese empires?

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Overview of chapter __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Discuss the similarities between the various empire building efforts we examined: the Spanish in South America, the English in North America, the Russians in Eurasia, the Manchu Dynasty in China, and Mughal Empire in India. How were they different? Which do you think was the most powerful and why? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires? ||


 * **__<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Christmas Culture Assignment __**

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Write a brief essay (at least 2 body paragraphs in addition to the intro and conclusion paragraph) using the handout and the thesis stated below:

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Thesis: **Although Christmas originated as a religious celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, a religious occurrence, in America it has developed into a series of cultural events that are not all religious in origin.**

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Using this thesis statement above, complete the intro paragraph, and then write at least two body paragraphs based on the handout from class. Be sure to use examples to support the thesis statement.

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__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Shapes of Human Communities __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Read pages 569-575, and answer the following questions in your notebook. <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Describe they types of communities in which early peoples lived? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. List where each type of community existed in the world.
 * **__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reading Questions – Ch. 13: Worlds of the 15th Century __**

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ming China (pp. 576-78) __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why was the 15th century a “major turning point in the human story? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What challenges did Ming China face at the beginning of the 15th century? How did they face them? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What role did Emperor Yongle play in China’s maritime expeditions? What was the goal of these maritime expeditions? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. How long did these expeditions continue and why did they come to an end?

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Europe (pp. 578-84) __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What challenges did Europe face at the beginning of the 15th century? How did they face them? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. What was different about Europe in the early 15th century as compared to China during that period? What did they have in common? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What led to the European maritime expeditions of the 15th century? How did they differ from those of China? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. What role did religion play in the European maritime expeditions? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">11. Why did the European expeditions not end abruptly the way the Chinese expeditions did?

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ottomans (pp. 584-86) __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">12. Why was the Ottoman empire of enormous significance in the world of the 15th century and beyond? (Your answer should include several reasons.) <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">13. Why was there a century of periodic military conflict between the Ottoman and Safavid empires? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">14. Who were the Janissaries? <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">15. What threat did the Ottoman Empire pose to Europe?

__<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Ottoman Empire and Safavid Empire __ <span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">16. What are the similarities/differences between these the Ottoman and Safavid empires?

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Songhay and Mughal Empires__

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">17. What are the similarities/differences between the Songhay and Mughal Empires?

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">18. What would be the negative and positive aspects of being part of an empire?

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Aztec Empire and Inca Empire__

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">19. How did the Aztec and Inca empires differ? How were they similar?

<span style="color: #043104; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">20. How were women treated by the Aztec and Inca civilizations? Give an example of gender parallelism in both civilizations. ||

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What does patriarchy mean?
 * __**<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Questions for Patriarchies of Classical China (pp. 252-55) **__

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What are common features of a patriarchal society?

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why did lower class women often have more freedom than upper class women?

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. How did Confucian ideas affect the role of men and women in Chinese society?

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Describe the position of women in Chinese society as defined through Confucian thought.

<span style="color: #03033d; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. How and why did the position of women in China change after the collapse of the Han Dynasty? ||

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Describe the social hierarchy of classical China. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. How did one become a part of the group of elite officials? What benefits did one receive upon becoming an elite official? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Why were landowning families an important part of the Chinese society? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Peasants were higher in the social hierarchy than merchants. Did this mean that they were always respected by the elites of Chinese society? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Why were merchants ranked lower than peasants? ||
 * __**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Questions for Society & State in Classical China (pp. 238-42) **__

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 192-195) <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How did Confucianism develop? What problem was it intended to solve? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. How could social harmony be restored in China according to Confucius? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. Explain Confucius' attitude toward relationships in society. <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. What role did education play in Confucian thought? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Why was Confucianism important to Chinese society? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Based on Confucian values, how should rulers govern? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. How did Confucianism affect social status in China? ||
 * **<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Questions for Confucianism__ **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 158-60) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How and why did the making of the Chinese empire differ from that of the Roman Empire? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Why was it possible for the state of Qin to re-unify China? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. How did Shihuangdi differ in his approach to being the leader of an empire? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Were Shihuangdi's policies more or less brutal than those of the Romans? Why? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. What were the short-term and long-term results of the empire-building efforts of Shihuangdi?
 * __**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Questions for China **__

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 160-65) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. Explain the role played by religion in the Chinese empire. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. What role did outside (foreign) influence play in China? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. Why was the Chinese bureaucracy a more effective system of administration for its empire than that of Rome? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What led to the collapse of the Han Dynasty empire in China? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. Did the collapse of the Han Dynasty empire mean the end of empire in China? ||

<span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How did Rome grow from a single city to become the center of a huge empire? (You will need to explain the different steps leading to the creation of an empire.)
 * **__<span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Questions for Rome (pp. 155-58) __**

<span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Explain how Rome became a republic. How was the government of Rome organized under the republican system?

<span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. The creation of the Roman Empire took more than 500 years. Explain the importance of each of these areas to the process: <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Central Italy <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Italian Peninsula <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Punic Wars <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Eastern Mediterranean <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Southern Europe <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;"> Eastern Europe

<span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Explain the significance of each of these terms to the creation of the Roman Empire: <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">piecemeal <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">defensive <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">opportunity <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">brutality <span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">generosity

<span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Why did the growth of empire pose a profound question for Rome in terms of its government? What changes to the republic resulted from the growth of empire?

<span style="color: #400540; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. How did Octavian Augustus attempt to maintain the sense that Rome was still a republic? ||


 * __**<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Questions for the Classical Societies **__

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 138-39) <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. What does the term "classical era" mean?

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 144-45) <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. What is an empire? What does an empire consist of in most cases?

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What problems might an empire face?

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Why do we study empires?

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 147-151) <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. Describe classical Greece. Was it a unified civilization? Why or why not? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">6. What was the most distinctive feature of Greek civilization? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">7. How did public participation in Greece change over time? Why was citizenship important in Greece? <span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">8. What were the consequences for both sides of the encounter between the Persians and the Greeks?

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 152-153)

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">9. What did Alexander the Great accomplish?

<span style="color: #075007; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">10. What were the consequences of his achievement? ||

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 103-108) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">1. Explain why the Nile River was so important to Egyptian civilization.
 * __**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reading Questions for Egypt (pp. 103-112) **__ **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Answer these questions in your notebook. **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Describe the geography and physical setting of ancient Egypt. What effect did Egypt’s location have on the society/civilization?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">3. What role did the pharaohs play in Egyptian society? What type of government did Egypt have?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Did more people in Egypt live in urban centers or in rural areas? What does this tell us about Egyptian life/society?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">(pp. 108-112) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">5. How was Egypt affected by its interactions with near and distant neighbors?

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Write your name in hieroglyphics] ||


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 * [[file:Forms of Government worksheet.doc]] ||


 * [[file:SocStudies Vocab worksheet.doc]] ||

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