World History Study Guide – Mr. Huesken
Unit III Exam – 90 points total
Test Breakdown:
 60 multiple choice questions @ 1 point each
 15 map matching questions @ 1 point each
 3 essay questions @ 15 points
o You pick the one (1) that you feel the most comfortable with
 Bonus questions
Test Date: _________________________________
Exam Topics



Culture
o Definition
o Elements of Culture
Anthropology
o What is it?
o How did it originate?
o Anthropological Method
Dangers of Culture
o Stereotyping
o Ethnocentrism
o Xenophobia
o Assimilation
o Ethnocide
UNIT I
 The Middle Ages
o Feudalism
o The Manor
o The Class system
o The Serfs
 The Black Death
o Causes?
o Where did it originate?
o Symptoms
o Impact on Europe





The Renaissance
o Causes
o Where did it originate?
o Major figures
o Impact on Europe
The Founding of Christianity
o Where did it originate?
o Jesus of Nazareth
o Peter / Paul
o Edict of Milan
o The Council of Rome
The Catholic Church
o Why was it so powerful?
o Power structure
o The Pope
o Purgatory
o Excommunication
The Inquisition
o Purpose
The Reformation
o [REFORM]ation
o Reasons for…
o Martin Luther
 95 Theses
 Diet of Worms
o John Calvin
o Impact on Europe







Results of the Reformation
o Religious violence
o Peace of Augsburg
o The Anabaptists
 The Mennonites
 The Amish
Absolute Monarchs
o Reasons for…
o Divine Right
o Impact on Europe
Islam
o Founding
o The Prophet Muhammad
o The Qur’an
o The Five Pillars
o Shia / Sunni Muslims
The Ottoman Empire
o Creation
o The sultan
o The Janissaries
o Suleiman the Lawgiver
 The Ottoman law code
o Cultural impacts
Feudal China
o Filial Piety
o Mandate of Heaven
Feudal Japan
o The Shoguns
o Social structure
o Tokugawa shoguns
o The Samurai
o Bushido
Czarist Russia
o Rivalry between Czar / nobles
o Ivan the Terrible
 The “good” period
 “The Times of Trouble”
o Peter the Great
 Turning of Russia into a
imperial power
UNIT II
 Pre-Columbian / Mesoamerican Civilizations
o Aztecs
o Incas
o Mayas
 Age of Exploration
o Motivations
o Major Explorers
o Impacts of…
 The Vinland Map Controversy
o Evidence for & against









Isolation of Asia
o Chinese Exploration / Zheng He
o Reasons for…
African Slaves Trade
o Why Africans?
o Effects
The Scientific Revolution
o Reasons?
o Important scientists
o Impacts of…
The Enlightenment
o Reasons for…
o Major themes
o Major philosophers
The English Civil War
o Reasons for…
o James I / Charles I
o Parliament
o Oliver Cromwell / his rule
o The Restoration / Charles II
Latin American Revolutions
o Reasons for…
o Major figures
The Haitian Revolution
o Reasons for…
o Major figures
o The start of the violence
o International war?
o Independence
The French Revolution
o Reasons for…
o The “Moderates” / Declaration of the
Rights of Man
o The “Radicals” / The Jacobins / The
Reign of Terror
o Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
o Early life / military career
o Rise to power
o Major conquests / successes
o Mistakes
o Final exile
UNIT III
 Industrial Revolution
o Reasons for…
o Major innovations / inventions
o Major figures
o Influence of…










Industrial Reformers
o Reasons for reform
o Major influences
o Major figures / ideas
European Imperialism in Asia
o Reasons for…
o End of Isolation (China / Japan)
o The British / Opium trade
o The US / Commodore Perry
o The Boxer Rebellion
British Imperialism in India
o Reasons for…
o Pros / Cons
o The Sepoy Rebellion
European Imperialism in Africa
o “Scramble for Africa”
o British in South Africa
o Reasons for…
o Apartheid
o The Boer Wars / Results
The US in the Philippines
o The Spanish – American War
o “Coaling Stations” / US goals
o Emilio Aguinaldo / Filipino goals
o How the war was fought
o US reaction to the war
o Results of the war
Otto von Bismarck / Imperial Germany
o The German Confederation
o Congress of Vienna
o Prussia / Otto von Bismarck
o Bismarck’s steps to victory
o Franco-Prussian War
The Armenian Genocide
o The Ottomans & the Armenians
o The Russo-Turkish War / WWI
o Planning & creation of the genocide
o World reaction
o Influence today
The Russian Revolution
o Reasons for…
o Czar Nicholas II
o Vladimir Lenin / Bolsheviks
o Russian Civil War
o Creation of the USSR
Anastasia / Anna Anderson Mystery
The USSR / Josef Stalin
o Lenin’s death
o Leon Trotsky vs. Stalin
o “The Great Purge”
o “The Five Year Plan”
o Results of…







Imperial Japan
o “Opening Up”
o Treaty of Kanagawa
o The Shi-Shi / Meigi Revolt
o Japanese modernization
o New government
o Foreign expansion / conflicts
The Weimar Republic
o End of WWI / Treaty of Versailles
o The German Revolution of 1918
o The Weimar Government
o Reaction to…
o Issues with…
o The end of…
Judaism / The Holocaust
o Beginnings of the religion
o The “diaspora”
o European “anti-Semitism”
o Hitler / Jewish “scapegoat”
o The Holocaust
o Views of the Holocaust
The Israeli – Palestinian Conflict
o Zionism
o British Mandate / Palestinians
o Balfour Declaration
o Jewish immigration to Palestine
o Violence / World War II
o The Peel Commission
o The White Papers
o Current Issues
Hinduism
o History of…
o “Big ideas”
o Caste System
o Dharma
o Karma
o Ganges River
Gandhi / Indian Independence
o INC / Muslim League
o Mahatma Gandhi
o Work in South Africa
o Non-Violent Resistance
o Work in India / results
Partitioning of India / Pakistan
o Independence / issues
o Gandhi’s assassination
o Partitioning plan / British leave
o Issues with…
o End results with…