Global 10 Midterm Review

Part 1 – 49 multiple choice questions General social studies/9th Grade (3-6) Absolutism & English Civil War (3-6) Scientific Rev. & Enlightenment (2-4) French Rev. and its impacts (8-12) Industrial Rev. and its impacts (7-9) Nationalism (2-4) Causes and impacts of Imperialism (10-15)

Part 2 - DBQ 9 Documents on three different concepts/people/events They are somehow related 14 scaffolding questions based on the documents DBQ essay will focus on 2 of the 3 concepts/people/events Must reference specific info from 4 to 5 documents Must include outside information Must be coherent and well organized (and written in pen)

Example… http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeography/Archive/20110128-gh.pdf

Key Themes

Protestant Reformation Causes and impacts Upset at RC Church for selling indulgence and being “too worldly” and corrupt Led to a significant decline in power of the RC Church Significance of Martin Luther Wrote 95 Theses Challenged the RC Church’s power Followers called themselves Protestants/Lutherans

Age of Absolutism Goals of Absolute Monarchs To centralize and strengthen their power Divine Right and its impact Louis XIV of France “Sun King”, palace of Versailles, persecuted Protestants because he could Peter the Great of Russia Modernized/Westernized (be able to provide specifics), Expanded Russian borders, navy and military, wanted access to a warm-water port

Responses to Absolutism The English Civil War Causes (Who should have more power, Monarch or Parliament?) Cavaliers vs. Roundheads Results (Leads to English Bill of Rights and Limited Monarchy) Parliament becomes more powerful than England’s monarch Rights for commoners increase (Habeas Corpus, voting increases) Ideas of John Locke Government should have limited power and come from the people (consent of the governed)

Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment Use of observation and reason Questioned long held beliefs Ex: heliocentric theory Copernicus, Galileo, Newton Scientific Method, inspired Enlightenment thinkers Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire Questioned Church and State Stressed the importance of reason

The French Revolution Causes Impacts Key people Key events BEAT, Louis 16th & Marie Antoinette Impacts Democracy & Natural Rights win! Latin American independence begins Key people Louis XVI, Robespierre, Napoleon, etc. Key events Estates General, Storming the Bastille, Reign of Terror, Napoleonic Wars, Congress of Vienna, etc.

Latin American Independence Movements Key people Simon Bolivar, Toussaint L’Ouverture Causes French Rev. inspired men like L’Ouverture Spain’s power was in decline Creoles wanted more say in their country Disliked the peninsulares Effects Haitian revolution All of Latin America eventually gains independence

Industrial Revolution Why did it start in Great Britain? Ample coal/iron, good rivers/harbors, large labor force, strong economy Causes Agricultural Revolution’s impact Importance of laissez-faire and capitalism Adam Smith Free Market leads to innovation

Industrial Revolution Problems of early industrialization Overcrowding in cities, poor working/living conditions Impacts On transportation (steam engine) On products (better quality and lower prices) Population shift (more people now live in cities = urbanization) On workers (labor unions) Karl Marx and the emergence of socialism Communist Manifesto (workers should overthrow the capitalists) Leads to industrialized nations beginning to imperialize

Irish Potato Famine Nationalism Unification of Germany Otto von Bismarck Breakup of the Ottoman Empire Balkan “powder keg” (many conflicting ethnic groups all want self-rule)

Imperialism Causes White Man’s Burden Industrialized nations of Europe wanted more raw materials and new markets to sell products White Man’s Burden Used to justify imperialism Similarities to mercantilism and colonialism Mercantilism=mother country=materials/markets

African Imperialism Berlin Conference Boer War Zulu Resistance Led to the division of Africa by Europeans Boer War Led to British control of southern Africa Zulu Resistance Failed due to “western advantage” Impacts on Africa Africa ruined by imperialism (go w/the negative answer)

Indian Imperialism British East India Company Set up system to ship cotton to Britain and finished products to India Sepoy Mutiny (causes and effects) Impacts on India India adopts several British ideas, better transportation & communication systems Gandhi’s nationalist/independence movement Methods, goals, problems Partition of India

Chinese Imperialism Opium War causes and effects Britain wanted to trade something besides silver for Chinese tea Chinese resisted but lost due to lack of modern military technology Treaty of Nanjing Boxer Rebellion causes and effects Spheres of Influence

Japan’s Meiji Restoration Japan wanted to compete w/European powers and avoid China’s fate M – modernize E – improve the economy I – industrialize J – Japan I – imperialize due to lack of natural resources

Good Luck! 