Reviewing for your Fall Semester Final

Reviewing for your World History Fall Semester Final

last updated 1/22/02 @ 11:36 AM

Dates of the Exam:

Period 2: 1/23 @ 8:00
Period 4: 1/24 @ 8:00
Period 5: 1/24 @ 10:05
Period 6: 1/25 @ 8:00

The Format of the Test:

75 Objective (scantron type) Questions - 25 of these questions will cover material from our most recent unit on Imperialism, the other 50 will cover the most important concepts from the first four units of study
2 Essay Questions - You will be presented with two sets of three questions, your job will be to select one question from each set and write the best five-paragraph essay you can in response to the question. In other words, you will be writing a total of two five-paragraph essays. These essay questions will span more than one unit, requiring you to link important ideas as they reach across the units of study.

Possible Essay Topics Include:

Art & Society
Changing Philosophy/Thought
Interaction between Europe and the rest of the world (aka Imperialism)
Technolgy and it's impact on economics
Social Class structure and interaction
Changes in religion and it's impact on society

Things you can do to prepare:

Form a study group with the kind of people you work well with and prepare for the test gradually over time, five separate 45 minute study sessions will be much more effective than a four hour cram session the night before
Organize your notes and work for each unit, review your notes and work in order to develop a list of the 15-20 most important concepts from each unit
Visit the unit pages for the first four units and use the review games and other PowerPoint resources you find there to help strengthen your areas of weakness and generally organize yourself for the test. The Unit pages are linked here:

Use this chart to trace the essay themes across the first four units

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WOW, IT’S UNITS I-IV, ALL ON ONE HANDY PAGE!!!!

Classical Era to Renaissance
Classical Era:
early sources of law
philosophers
Greeks (Alexander)
Romans (Julius Caesar)

Middle Ages
feudalism
manorialism
crusades
plague
gothic architecture
church patronage
scholasticism

Renaissance (1350-1600)
Medieval to Modern
resurgence of pop. & economy (patronage)
Humanism (Petrarch, Erasmus, & More)
Spreads from Italy to NW Europe
Nation States (France, Spain, and England)
Exploration

Reformation to Enlightenment
Church abuses
Luther’s 95 big ones
Zwingli
Calvin & Geneva
Counter Reformation
Baroque Art
English Reformation
Religious Wars: Dutch Revolt, French Conflict, English/Spanish, 30 Years War (1618-1648)
Copernicus, Galileo, Newton
Bacon, Descartes, Pascal
English Civil War
Glorious Revolution
Louis XIV & Absolute monarchy in France
Hobbes & Locke
Mercantilism & Mercantilist wars: Jenkins Ear, Austrian Succession, Seven Years War
Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Adam Smith
Encyclopedia
Deism

Age of Revolutions
enclosure, crop rotation
new crops & inventions for agriculture and industry
First Industrial Rev. (GB leads: textiles, steam & coal)
New Cities
American Revolution (enlightenment impact)
French Revolution
causes: debt, social tension, finances & hunger
Bastille &Versailles
Dec. Rights of Man
French Revolutionary Wars
Jacobins & Reign of Terror
Rise of Napoleon
Napoleonic Code
Napoleonic Wars (conquering Europe)
Continental System
Resistance to Nappy ($ from GB) Spain, Germany, Austria
Congress of Vienna

Industrialism & the Changing Face of Europe
Nationalism
Liberalism
Socialism
Conservatism & conservative oppression
Romanticism
Chartism
Revolutions of 1848 (Italy vs. Austria, France & Nappy III, Vienna & A-H, Berlin)
Crimean War
Cavour, Garibaldi & Italian Unification
Bismarck, Prussia & German Unification
Wars of Unification
Second Industrial Rev. (oil, chemicals, steel)
Darwin, Freud, Pasteur
Labor Unions
Marx, growth of socialism
Cities (sanitation, electricity, etc.)
Jewish Emancipation, Zionism
Realism
Impressionism