Exam 2 Study Guide
HIST 2070

I. Topic areas:

II. Lectures: The exam will cover the following lectures

• The Industrial Revolution
• Global Imperialism
• Politics and Thought of the Industrial World

III. Readings:

• BWH: The Industiral Revolution Textile Manufacturing;Steam Power; Iron Making; Innovations in Transportation; Social Change; The Agricultural Revolution
• BWH: European Imperalism in Asia: The Last Chinese Dynasty; From the Edo Period to Meiji Restoration in Japan;British India; Indochina

• BWH: The Scramble for Africa The Berlin Conference; The Belgian Congo; France in Africa; Africa and the United Kingdom; German Imperialism; The Independent African States

• • BWH: European Imperalism in Asia: The Last Chinese Dynasty;From the Edo Period to Meiji Restoration in Japan; British India;Indochina

• • BWH: The Scramble for Africa

  • • The Berlin Conference; The Belgian Congo; France in Africa;Africa and the United Kingdom; German Imperalism; The Independent African States

  Kahn Academy: Smith, Marx and Keynes (Read the parts on Smith and Marx)

IV. STRUCTURE OF THE EXAM: The exam will have two parts, an essay portion and an identifications portion, each worth 50%.

Exam Structure: The exam will consist of two parts, an essay section and an identification section, each worth 50%. You will choose one essay from a selection that will be drawn from the essays below. For the identifications, you will be given a list of at least ten terms, drawn from the terms below, of which you will choose five for long (paragraph-length) identifications discussing the historical significance of those terms.

Grading Criteria:

• Essays: Essays should within reason follow standard short essay form, given the time restraints - 1) Introduction and thesis; 2) Supporting evidence; 3) Conclusion. This will ordinarily take a page or so, depending on your handwriting. You will be graded on form, completeness, accuracy, and how well you support your thesis.

• Identifications: You will be graded on two grounds: 1) Details - who, what, when, where; 2) Historical Significance - why does this matter? What were the consequences? How did this person/idea/thing shape history? (These are examples of questions you could address. Each term will vary as to how it needs to be approached.)

• Examples:

  • George Washington: First president of the United States, 1789-1797. Established a number of important presidential traditions, such as the practice of serving only two terms, the Cabinet system, presidential independence in setting foreign policy, and a semi-isolationist foreign policy that sought to avoid involvement in European affairs.

  • Jerusalem: A traditional religious center, located in the Eastern Mediterranean. Although of minor economic and strategic importance, it has had high religious significance for the three Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Because of this, control of Jerusalem has been important in a number of conflicts, including the medieval Crusades and the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  • animism:  A class of religions based on the idea that the universe is inhabited by and animated by spirits. Since all the world is inhabited by sprits, all the world is sacred. Widely practiced in pre and early agricultural societies, and still present in such modern religions as Shinto and Santeria. In such religions, it is important to develop good relations with these sprits, through sacrifice and other rituals, in order to obtain benefits and avoid problems.

V. Essay Questions: You will have to choose one of the following essay questions.

1. What factors made nineteenth century industrialization possible, and why did some regions industrialize much faster than others? ID TERMS: enclosure movement, James Watt, Liberalism, Romanticism, Nationalism
2. What ideas were used to justify European Imperialism in the nineteenth century? ID TERMS: Berlin Conference, Quinine, Social Darwinism, Liberia, settler colonies, Gatlin Gun, Scramble for Africa, Economic imperialism
3. How were the new politics of the nineteenth century an accommodation of the needs of industrialization, and how were they a reaction against it? ID Terms: Nationalism, Karl Marx, Anarchism, Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mills