Global History Regents Reminders
• The Regents is THIS Wednesday at 8:15 am. Everyone
should be at the high school no later than 8:00 am!
• You will be taking the test in room 066. If you receive
extra time or are an ELL student, you must report to
room 208.
• Bring your textbook to the final if you have not turned it
in already!
• Bring Pens! You must fill in the scantron and do the two
essays in pen. Remember, don’t fill in anything on the
scantron until you are absolutely sure of your answer.
Multiple Choice (50 questions)
• Keep doing practice questions! Look over the
castle learning assignments, the packets you got
in class and during the review sessions, and
websites like www.regentsprep.org and
http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeogr
aphy/ (links to these are available on my
website).
• Use the yellow packet and the review book to
study!
Thematic Essay
• Look over the Thematic Essay cheat sheet
packet I distributed. Be prepared to write
about about some of the topics under each
theme.
DBQ
• Read the documents slowly and carefully and
make sure you get the scaffolding questions
right! Answer them in complete sentences.
DBQ
• Remember to use specific information from
the documents to support your argument
and to cite the minimum number of
documents they ask for. For example:
– (Document 5) or In Document 5…..
DBQ
• Remember to also include outside information not
mentioned in the documents to support your argument. If you
do not include any outside information, the highest grade you
can get on the DBQ is a 3. For example:
– Women’s Suffrage Movement in Great Britain:
• Women had been fighting for equal rights in Europe since
the Enlightenment (Mary Wollstonecraft).
• During World War I, many British women worked in factories
while men were away fighting to provide weapons and
supplies for the war effort. They also worked on farms to
provide enough food for the British population. Because
women made these important contributions, they believed
that they deserved the right to vote. Ultimately, after World
War I they did receive this right.
DBQ
- Pro-democracy movement in China
• The rise of Deng Xiaoping in the mid 1970s led to the
Four Modernizations, where China started to introduce
capitalist ideas into its economy (end of collective
farms, more consumer goods, people could own small
businesses, more foreign trade and investment).
• As a result, Chinese people were gaining more
economic rights and were actually trading with
democratic countries in the west. This exposure to
economic freedom and democracy caused many
Chinese students to demand greater political rights.
DBQ
• Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa:
– Under apartheid, black South Africans were restricted in where
they could live, the schools they could go to, and the jobs they
could have. They were forced to live on homelands (isolated
areas away from the urban centers) or in townships (segregated
slums within the cities).
– Black South Africans were 75 percent of the population, yet
controlled the least productive land.
– ANC fought apartheid through acts of civil disobedience like
boycotts (encouraging the world not to buy goods from South
Africa until apartheid ended).
– In the late 1980s, President F.W. de Clerk finally freed Nelson
Mandela and started to repeal some of the harshest laws under
apartheid. In 1994, Mandela became the first black president of
South Africa and ended apartheid once and for all.
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries)
– Middle Eastern countries with large oil fields try
to regulate prices
– Trade embargo of the US in 1970s for supporting
Israel in wars
Interdependence  reliance of people on
goods, resources and knowledge from
other parts of the world
• Early Examples: Trade of goods along the Silk Road
from China, and between great civilizations like the
Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Empire.
Silk Road
Interdependence
Modern Examples:
– Military Interdependence: Alliances during World
War I (Allies vs. Central Powers), World War II (Allies
vs. Axis Powers) and the Cold War (NATO vs. Warsaw
Pact).
– Economic Interdependence
• European Union (EU): European nations have unified
economically. They have worked to lower tariffs and
encourage free trade among their members.
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): Countries
in North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico) have lowered trade
barriers and linked their economies.
Interdependence
– Environmental Interdependence: Countries in the world work
together today to solve various environmental problems:
• Ozone Layer: Air pollution has caused a hole in the ozone layer, which
creates increased exposure to radiation (results could be skin cancer, or
destruction of crops).
• Deforestation: Widespread destruction of the world’s rainforests in Brazil
(Amazon Basin), Costa Rica and the Congo to gain lumber, or more land
for farming, building and grazing animals. We could be destroying possible
cures to cancer and AIDS!
• Global Warming: The rising of the average temperature worldwide. If it
continues, it will reach a point where the arctic glaciers begin to melt,
causing worldwide floods. Scientists believe global warming is caused by
the greenhouse effect, which is a build up of warm air in the lower
atmosphere. This occurs from the burning of fossil fuels and
deforestation.
• Desertification: The process of fertile land being transformed into desert
land. This is generally resulting from human interaction either by
deforestation or by the overgrazing of farm animals. As the plant life is
destroyed, winds blow the fertile soil away, thus spreading the
desert. The Sahara Desert in Africa is spreading about 50 miles a year due
to this process.
• Solution that demonstrates Interdependence: Kyoto Protocol
(1997) – International agreement calling for a decrease in carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gasses from the 1990 levels.
Green Revolution
• Technology used to increase the food supply
(began in the 1960s).
• Methods include irrigation, machinery, fertilizer,
pesticides, and better seeds and livestock.
• Has helped to increase food production in areas
of Asia (particularly India), Latin America, and
Africa.