History 152: World Civilizations II
Study Guide: Unit One
Lectures: Why History, World Trade Routes, Chinese & European Expansion,
Unification of World Trade
After completing the assigned
readings and attending the lectures listed above, you should be able to:
describe:
1. why it is important to study history (I-1, I-7 to I-15).
2. who benefited from long distance trade before 1500 and after 1500 (391, 421).
3. the trade routes of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Indian Ocean, and Mongol
Empire (394-416).
4. the motivations for and results of the Chinese & European overseas trade
(408-411, 442-447).
5. the technological advances of China and Europe (411-414, 440-441).
6. the two interpretive frameworks for understanding the significance of world
trade (421 + notes).
7. the differences and similarities between the Portuguese and Spanish Empires
(452, 454-462).
8. the connection between Protestantism and capitalism (465).
9. how religious civil wars transformed France and England (469-470, 531).
| know the importance of: | define: |
| subsistant moral economy (notes) | historiography (I-2) |
| free market economy (392) | primary & secondary sources (notes) |
| trade diasporas (393-394) | trade diasporas (393-394) |
| Mansa Musa (399) | quipu (394) |
| Genghis Khan (417-419) | pochteca (396) |
| Marco Polo (411, 413-417) | Pax Mongolica (414) |
| Ibn Battuta (410, 414) | Confucian ethic (Reilly, 8-9) |
| bubonic plague (419-420, 436-437) | manorialism & feudalism (notes) |
| Zheng He (409-411) | urban middle class (432 + notes) |
| “culture of complacency” (Reilly, 9) | Medieval (notes) |
| guilds & city-states (430) | Christian ethic (441 + notes) |
| Hundred Years War (notes) | Renaissance (433) |
| Bartholomeu Dias & Vasco da Gama (414) | humanism, individualism, secularism (438, 439 + notes) |
| Christopher Columbus & Ferdinand Magellan (445-446) | capitalism (451, 453) |
| Hernan Cortes & Francisco Pizarro (452) | conquistadors (454 + notes) |
| Adam Smith (453-454) | encomienda (457) |
| Spanish monarchs: Charles V & Philip II (462, 463, 466) | haciendas (457) |
| Martin Luther (462-464) | Holy Roman Empire ( 463 + notes) |
| John Calvin (463-464) | Reformation (462 + notes) |
| English monarchs: Henry VIII & Charles I (464, 525, 531) | Huguenots (470) |
| Council of Trent (464) | absolutism (470 + notes) |
| Society of Jesus (464-465) | mercantilism (451) |
| St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (notes) | Protectorate (531 + notes) |
| French monarchs: Henry IV & Louis XIV (470) | constitutional monarchy (532 + notes) |
| Edict of Nantes (470) | laissez-faire (453) |
| Oliver Cromwell (531) | joint stock companies (468) |
locate on a map & know the importance of each: (Maps on pages 393, 395, 398, 405, 406, 418, 438, 459, 463)
| world trade routes before & after 1500 (393, 459) | extent of the Mongol Empire (418, 419) |
| Andes (394, 395) | Sahara (397, 398, 399) |
| Yucatan (395, 396) | Indian Ocean (404-406) |
| Western Europe (430) | Mali in West Africa (399) |
| Florence (430, 438) | Great Zimbabwe (399-400) |
| Netherlands (430, 459, 466) | Holy Roman Empire (463) |