World Interm

*Geographic questions:  These multiple choice questions may require you to create a mental map - for example:

Which city is closest to Mecca? a. Damascus  b. Beijing c. Moscow   d. Buenos Aires

Others may have a section of a map, such as Central America, lettered from A-E, and you will need to identify the correct letter indicated by the prompt.

Connections Terms & Topics (also useful for other test sections): For this massive term list, consider who/what they are AND why they are important.  It may be helpful to make handwritten flashcards. This way you can practice organizing terms into sets, based on different patterns. For example, which terms show power designations? Which terms are religious sects? Resist the temptation to just “Google” terms.  You need to know them in the context of the course & what we have been learning!  For a similar reason, a "study guide" prepared by your friend may not be helpful if it uses definitions that they "googled" or definitions that don't make sense to you.

Four major components of globalization - power, profit, evangelism, curiosity

Surface Culture vs. Internal Culture, ethnocentrism

Universal Culture vs. Cultural Specifics  vs. Personal Features

Collectivist Culture vs. Individualistic Culture , Agricultural Revolution

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism

Israel/Palestine history and current situation, the Temple, Mecca, Jerusalem

Silk Road and Timbuktu trade networks; Mansa Musa's Hajj; the Crusades

Mongol Empire and policies, Jared Diamond's thesis

Spanish Conquest of the Americas, Atahualpa, Pizzaro, Requerimiento, viceroy

Aztecs, city of Tenochtitlan, Inca, quipu, Tupac Amaru, Great Dying, Columbian Exchange

Changes in Spain under Isabella & Ferdinand, Inquisition, heretic

regional autonomy, fiefs, encomienda, nation-state, empire, republic

royalty, monarchy, aristocracy versus regular people, subjects, peasants

European Colonial Empires in the Americas - silver from Cerro Rico, status hierarchies, mestizo, peninsulare, creole, viceroy

The Atlantic Slave Trade - human trafficking, sugar colonies, Middle Passage

Russia -czar, warm water port, Nicholas, Russian Orthodox, Baltic and Black Seas

Ottoman Empire - sultan, caliph, vizier, devshirme, millet, Anatolian peninsula, Suleiman, Constantinople-Istanbul

Mughal Empire - subcontinent, religious pluralism, suttee, luxury goods, Akbar vs. Aurangzeb

Ming and Qing Empire - Han, Manchus, Zheng He's treasure fleet, Middle Kingdom, Kanxi

European Trading Post Empires -Portuguese alteration to free trade, Dias, cartaz

Dutch East India Company, charter, stock/share, mercantilism versus capitalism

limited liability, fur, tea, indigo, silver, pepper, nutmeg

commodity, insider information, consumption, moving trade

Treaty of Tordesillas, Magellan's voyage, the Philippines

Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan- Shinto, samurai, isolationism, Nagasaki

Changes in Islam - Sufism, Salafism, Fundamentalist, Mystic, Sunni, Shia

The Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther, 95 Theses, printing press, vernacular

Catholic missionaries, syncretism, Sikh religion, Guru Nanak, martyr

Baghdad's House of Wisdom, Galileo, geo-centrism versus helio-centrism, Newton, empiricism, European Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment