history

HIST 1060

World History from 1500

Fall 2018

Due: Monday, December 10, 2018 at 4:45 pm

TAKE HOME FINAL EXAM

(Based on chapters 23, 24, 25, 27, and 28; lectures 11-20)

REMINDER – NO MAKE UP EXAMS UNLESS YOU LET ME KNOW AHEAD OF TIME AND PROVIDE WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION FROM A PHYSICIAN OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL.

**Instructions for submission of your exam - You are required to submit an electronic copy of your exam (Word or PDF)via the safe assign link found on the course web site on blackboard.

Exams may be completed at home and are open book. HOWEVER, all work must be your own. Cheating includes – but is not limited to: cutting and pasting text from the internet or from a document you did not write yourself for use in your exam; cutting and pasting from the internet or from a document you did not write yourself and then slightly altering the wording of that text for use in your exam. Students are responsible for the honest completion and representation of their work. By placing their name on academic work, students certify the originality of all work not otherwise identified by appropriate acknowledgments/citations.

**The electronic copy of your final exam is due to the Safe Assign link on blackboard by 4:45 pm (EST) on Monday, December 10, 2018.

Do not wait until the last minute. The Safe Assign link will not be available after 2:30 PM. Finish your work early enough so that you can complete it before the deadline and you have time to check and make sure that it was successfully submitted. If the website has temporary problems or you lose your internet connection, you might not be able to ensure that your submission goes through. In addition, it is your responsibility to find a reliable computer and internet connection on which to save your work (frequently) and submit your exam. No make-ups will be permitted without a valid medical excuse or other university sanctioned absence. There are no other options. If you have any problems submitting your exam, please email me [email protected] or call (419) 530-5071.

Instructions for completing your exam:

The following terms are taken from a combination of the lecture notes, lectures, and assigned reading. Choose TEN AND ONLY TEN of the terms below on the midterm to write about. There is NO extra credit for writing on more than five. A top scoring exam will consist of five well-written, thorough, lengthy responses.

You must provide factual information relating to the person, event, or movement, etc. I am looking for enough detail and enough specificity so it is clear you have a solid grasp of the subject matter. Many students find it helpful to run through the 'who,' what' 'when,' 'where,' why,' 'how,' etc. prompts while writing. Remember, I do NOT expect you to know dates, unless it is helpful to you to do so, but beyond that I do expect a lot of detail and specificity in your responses. Take your discussion/analysis as far as it can go; define things, explain things, integrate other relevant topics.

In class we used the example of Martin Luther. This is certainly not the only way to approach it, nor is it necessarily an all-inclusive answer, rather it is meant to illustrate my general expectations:

Martin Luther was raised in a strict Catholic family in Germany. In his early adult years, he became a monk in hopes of one day becoming a priest. As time went on Luther, became more disturbed with what he believed to be blatant errors, abuse, and overreaching on the part of the priests, bishops, all the way up the chain of authority in the Catholic establishment. To Luther, neither the Bible, nor any other authority vested the clergy in the Roman Catholic Church with the power and the divide between themselves and the masses they claimed. Luther also called attention to indulgences and cancellations of punishments. Indulgences were payments of certain amounts of money straight to the Catholic Church in exchange for a decrease or a flat out erasure of one's sin. A cancellation was a higher payment up front which served to cancel the person's sin debt, so to speak, free and clear.

In 1517, Luther nailed what came to be known as the "95 Theses" to the Wittenberg Castle Church door in Germany. The "95 Theses" were a list of questions for debate that Luther posed to the Catholic Church. The importance of Luther's nailing the "95 Theses" was that it touched off the Protestant Reformation. Luther stood up to the Catholic establishment at a time when that Church's authority was rarely if ever questioned, its pronouncements were the final word. People did not question, they did not interpret, and they did not analyze. Those skills were seen as solely reserved for higher church authority. Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church in 1520 (in other words, severed his association and prohibited him from ever being part of it again).

The Catholic Church deemed Luther a "protestant." Soon after, Europe became divided along confessional and territorial lines. The religious turmoil of the period led to warfare within most states and between many.

Remember, nothing occurs in isolation or in a vacuum. Tell me in detail what the part of the world was like at the time the term you are writing about existed. Here's a hint: when you are studying, read a couple of paragraphs before and a couple of paragraphs after the term in the textbook and in the notes you hopefully took during class. Integrate this information in your response to provide political, economic, and social context.

Finally, tell me why each term was significant or important . Think of it this way; “why do we care?” “why did we study this person, event, movement, etc.” Did they start a trend or a backlash to a movement? How would the world be different if this person did not exist, if this movement did not occur, etc. What did this person, movement, or event contribute to history or to our understanding of how the world works? Keep in mind, there can be more than one significance. As long as your answer is reasonable, you will get points. Do NOT simply say, for example, “Luther was important because he impacted history.” While this is a true statement I expect more than that for a quality answer.

Please use complete sentences.

Terms:

Benjamin Franklin

The French Revolution, 1789-1815

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804

The Congress of Vienna and Conservative Retrenchment, 1815-1820

Ottoman Reform, 1807 to 1853

Extraterritoriality

The Crimean War

The Opium War

The Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864

Simon Bolivar

Political Challenges of Western Hemisphere Nations in the Nineteenth Century

The Abolition of Slavery

Development and Underdevelopment among Western Hemisphere Nations in the Nineteenth Century

Territorial Expansion of the United States in the Nineteenth Century

Thomas Edison

Separate Sphere

Karl Marx

The Meiji Restoration

Nationalism and Social Darwinism

The First World War

Russian Revolutions

Treaty of Versailles

Mandate System

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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