History 152: World Civilizations II
Study Guide: Unit Two
Lectures: Demography &
Migration, Intellectual Revolutions, American Revolution, French Revolution
After completing the assigned
readings and attending the lectures listed above, you should be able to:
describe:
1. how and why demographic historians examine human populations (485-486, 508-513).
2. the Asian migrations of the Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, Safavid Persia,
and China (499-507).
3. the expansion of Europe into North America, Australia, New Zealand, and South
Africa (486-494).
4. how demographers understand slavery (494-499) and contrast that with a slave’s
experience (Doc. 15.3).
5. the causes, achievements, and consequences of the Scientific Revolution (526-531
+ notes).
6. the Enlightenment: the causes, central concepts, and beliefs of the philosophes
(533-536 + notes).
7. the philosophical rationale for political revolution (521-526).
8. the causes, events, and results of the American Revolution (536-539 + notes).
9. the causes, events, and results of the French Revolution (539-545 + notes).
| know the importance of: | define: |
| computers (486) | demography & migration (485) |
| Suleiman I “the Magnificent” (501) | gazis, Sufis, janissaries (501) |
| Akbar (502-505) | Kanuni (notes) |
| Shah Abbas (506) | syncretism: Urdu, Din-i-Ilahi (505) |
| Manchu’s Qing dynasty (507) | philosophes (533) |
| New World crops in China (487) | constitutional monarchy (533 + notes) |
| Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers (489-490) | English Bill of Rights (532) |
| Abel Tasman & James Cook (491-492) | Declaration of Independence (536-537 + Doc. 18.4) |
| Treaty of Waitangi (494) | U.S. Constitution (537) |
| Philip Curtin’s slave trade study (498-499) | U.S. Bill of Rights (537) |
| Olaudah Equiano (Doc. 15.3) | Three Estates (540) |
| Medieval universities (notes) | bourgeoisie (540) |
| Aristotelian view & Ptolemy’s rules (notes + 527) | Estates-General (540-541) |
| Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton (527-530) | National Assembly (542-543) |
| Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot (533-535) | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizens (541-542 + Doc. 18.7) |
| John Locke (524-526 + notes) | 1792 Constitution (543) |
| Thomas Hobbes (523-524) | National Convention (544) |
| Charles I & Oliver Cromwell (531) | sans-culottes (543) |
| Restoration of 1660 (531 + notes) | “bread of equality” (notes) |
| Glorious Revolution (531-533) | Reign of Terror & Committee of Public Safety (543) |
| the American colonial experience (536 + notes) | guillotine (notes) |
| Stamp Act (536) | 1795 Constitution (544) |
| Boston Tea Party (537) | Directory (545) |
| Louis XIV (470) | coup d’etat (545 + notes) |
| Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette (540-543) | benevolent despotism (notes) |
| Oath of the Tennis Court (541) | |
| Capture of the Bastille (541) | |
| “March of the Women” (542) | |
| “Great Fear” (542) | |
| Maximilien Robespierre (544) | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte (545-547) |
locate on a map & know the importance of each:
| Constantinople (511-512) | Brazil, Caribbean, west & central Africa (496-497) |
| Khyber Pass (notes) | Australia, New Zealand, South Africa (490-495) |
| Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Lahore, Delhi (509-510) | Napoleon’s Grand Empire (546) |
| Isfahan (510-511) | Elba & St. Helena (547) |