History 151 Final Exam Global Essays Sample Format

This is a SAMPLE of what the Global Essay portion of the Final Exam will look like. All items are included, although on the final only a selection of the terms will show up in each column and not necessarily in this order.

Part II: Global Issues (100 points)

This portion of the final exam covers the whole course. You must write TWO (2) essays, worth 50 points each, one on each of the following two questions:

  1. Why is a knowledge of pre-1500 history essential for global citizenship today?
  2. What are the implications of crosscultural interactions in history for the future of humanity?
For EACH essay, you must use six items, one from each of the six lists in the table below. You cannot use an item more than once, so each essay must have its own six items different from the other essay (e.g., 12 items total, 6 in each essay). Please list your six items at the top of your essay.
10 of these:
  • homo sapiens sapiens
  • history
  • migration
  • crosscultural interactions
  • language
  • writing systems
  • culture
  • worldviews
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • government
  • empire
  • social classes
  • economy
  • agriculture
  • trade
  • urbanization
  • travel
  • conquest
  • the arts
  • the environment
  • indigenous rights and sovereignty
  • gender and family
  • poverty
  • terrorism
  • war
  • human rights
  • globalization
  • multiculturalism
  • East-West "clash of civilizations"
 a different 10 of these:
  • human
  • history
  • migration
  • crosscultural interactions
  • language
  • writing systems
  • culture
  • worldviews
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • government
  • empire
  • social classes
  • economy
  • agriculture
  • trade
  • urbanization
  • travel
  • conquest
  • the arts
  • the environment
  • indigenous rights and sovereignty
  • gender and family
  • poverty
  • terrorism
  • war
  • human rights
  • globalization
  • multiculturalism
  • East-West "clash of civilizations"
 half of these:
  • East Asia
  • South Asia
  • Southwest Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • Central Asia
  • Indian Ocean basin
  • Oceania
  • North Africa
  • Sub-Sahara Africa
  • Arabia
  • Mediterranean
  • Eurasia
  • Western Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • North and Central America
  • South America
 the other half of these:
  • East Asia
  • South Asia
  • Southwest Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • Central Asia
  • Indian Ocean basin
  • Oceania
  • North Africa
  • Sub-Sahara Africa
  • Arabia
  • Mediterranean
  • Eurasia
  • Western Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • North and Central America
  • South America
 20 of these:
  • Paleolithic
  • Neolithic
  • Epeli Hau'ofa, "Our Sea of Islands"
  • The Code of Hammurabi
  • Cuneiform
  • Book of 1 Kings (Bible), on Solomon
  • Harkhuf's Expeditions to Nubia
  • The Great Hymn to Aten
  • Isis and Osiris
  • Hatshepsut of Egypt and Candace of Meroe
  • Hieroglyphs
  • The Rig Veda
  • The Chandogya Upanishad
  • Book of Songs
  • The Popol Vuh
  • The Voyage of Ru
  • Zarathustra
  • Confucius, Analects
  • Laozi, The Sayings of Lao Tzu
  • The Ashokavadana
  • The Bhagavad Gita
  • Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander
  • Socrates, from Plato's Apology
  • Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
  • Jesus, Sermon on the Mount
  • St. Cyprian, On Mortality
  • Constantine
  • Manichaeism
  • Nestorian Christianity
  • Silk Roads
20 of these:
  • Benjamin of Tudela
  • The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
  • iconoclasm
  • The Quran
  • The Farewell Sermon of Muhammad
  • The Fiscal Rescript of Umar II
  • Dar-al-Islam
  • Du Fu, "A Song of War Chariots"
  • Suleiman, on Businees Practices in Tang China
  • Silla Dynasty
  • Vietnam
  • An Lushan rebellion
  • Heian era
  • Kamakura Shogunate
  • samurai
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes, on Trade in Southeast Asia
  • Bhagavata Purana, on Devotion to Vishnu
  • Shiva
  • Maharajadiraja
  • Angkor
  • Bede, on Conversion of England
  • Gregory of Tours, on the Conversion of Clovis
  • Einhard, from the Life of Charlemagne
  • Capitulary de Villis (life on an early medieval manor)
  • Marco Polo
  • Sundiata
  • Ibn Battuta
  • Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, on Trade between Europe and China
  • Thomas of Celano, on St. Francis of Assisi
  • Bernardino de Sahagun, Florentine Codex
  • Mo'ikeha's Migration
  • John of Montecorvino, on his Mission to China
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11/20/03