Midterm Study Guide

World History / Andrews

Spring 2017

Midterm Review

During the exam, you will write 10-minute answers to five questions. You will do well on the Midterm if you can:

1) Describe some of the major events or ideas that defined and began the Modern era.

2) What was the Great Dying? Was this a genocide? Was it a cultural genocide?

3) Why did Europeans have an advantage over native peoples when they arrived in the Americas?

4) What were the motivations of Europeans in engaging in exploration and conquest during the early Modern era?

5)  What was unique about slavery as it was practiced in the Americas? Discuss the different ways people experienced slavery in the Spanish highlands, Brazil/Caribbean, and North America, with an emphasis on the long term demographic changes that took place.

6) Explain the significance of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.

7) Explain the significance of the French Revolution of 1789 and in what sense it was related to the North American and Haitian revolutions.

8) The Haitian revolution was the only successful slave revolution in history. Why was this important?

9) Explain what Strayer means by “echoes of Atlantic revolutions,” give examples of these, and apply this concept to a contemporary cultural artifact such as the song “Same Love” http://genius.com/Macklemore-and-ryan-lewis-same-love-lyrics .