Final Examination

Summer I, 2014

READ THIS FIRST!.......At the time of the exam you must bring a small GREEN Scantron to class. You will not be allowed to have anything on your desk except the test booklet (which I will furnish), the Scantron, pens, pencils and erasers. Anything and everything else must be completely out of sight under your desk - preferably in your backpack. Absolutely no cell phones are allowed. Bury them deep in your backpacks/purses or leave them at home. There is no reason any papers of any kind should be in evidence, so make sure those that you have are secure from anyone's eyes, especially yours and mine!

Any academic dishonesty observed will be dealt with swiftly and severely. If I or my proctors observe such activity, the offender's test will be immediately picked up and the offender will be referred to the Dean of Students for University disciplinary action. There will be no exceptions here!

Study Guide

Multiple-Choice Section

Study the following terms, relating each to the textbook and my lectures. Each term is designed to direct you to the most appropriate answer to the question to which it relates. The test itself will follow the order of this guide, i.e., SG item no. 1 will relate to question no. 1 on the exam and so on. A thorough reading of the textbook is essential to success. 30 questions, 1 point each. Value = 30 points.

If you have any questions regarding a lack of understanding of terminology in this guide, please raise them in class. I will not answer them by phone or email. This is to insure that all students have access to an explanation where necessary.

Finally:  Be aware that some questions are except questions, i.e., “All of the following are true of the Roman senate except…” So don’t just go looking for specific words or expressions in hopes that you’ll come out OK. To answer “except” questions requires a thorough analysis of the material. In other words, you have to know everything that is true of the Roman senate as stated in the textbook and/or lectures in order to identify that which is not true.

1.     Know What the Xiongnu, the Uighurs, the Khitan, and the Jurchen have in common?

2.     Know what Chinese interaction with the northern nomads during the Tang dynasty resulted in.

3.     Be able to discuss relations between China, Korea and Japan.

4.     Be able to discuss Korea's relationship with China in the premodern period.

5.     Be able to identify technological innovations that spread from China to the rest of Eurasia.

6.     Know what was a factor in the growth of Buddhism in China after 300 C.E.

7.     Be able to identify a force that helped bind the Islamic world together.

8.     Be able to identify a feature of Islam that attracted converts in India.

9.     Know how Sufi practitioners facilitated the conversion to Islam of people living in Anatolia and India.

10.   Know In which region was conversion to Islam motivated by a desire to expand trading networks rather than from the result of conquest and    Islamic rule.

11.   Know what was a result of the cross-regional ties created in the expanding Islamic world.

12.   Know what refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims should try to make at least once in their lifetime.

13.   Know how economic growth and urbanization during the High Middle Ages affected women in Western Europe.

14.   Know what characterizes the spread of Christianity throughout Western Europe from 500 to 1000.

15.   Be able to identify Technological changes in which field that limited women's opportunities in Western Europe by the fifteenth century.

16.   Know what, Besides Islam, was also a target of Western European crusaders.

17.   Know the region in which rulers, during the period from 1000 to 1300,  held the least power.

18.   Be able to give an example of a European innovation made possible by borrowing technologies from other civilizations.

19.   Know what facilitated the creation of the Mongol Empire.

20.   Know what describes the transformation of the Turkic people from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.

21.   Know what resulted from Mongol rule over Russia.

22.   Know a way in which the Mongols contributed to the globalization of the Eurasian world.

23.   Know Which region gained the most from the exchanges of ideas and technologies facilitated by the Mongol Empire.

24.   Referring to Map 11.1 in the textbook. Know which country was not conquered by the Mongols despite repeated invasions.

25.   Be able to identify a feature that the Mughal Empire and Songhay Empire shared.

26.   Know what the wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to.

27.   Know what the Inca empire did that the Aztec empire did not do.

28.   Know What women could do in both the Aztec and Inca empires.

29.   Know which societies studied shared a common religion.

30.   Know what scholars call gender-based systems in which women and men operated in two separate but equivalent spheres.

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Identification Section: Study the following terms. At the time of the exam, you will be required to address two of them in terms of Who,  What, Where, When and – most important – Why. The “why” (historical significance of the item) is worth 50% of the total grade for each answer. Why means, "why do historians care?" What contributions/actions did the person, place or thing make that was significant to contemporaries and future generations. Be very thorough here! Your answers must be written in narrative (essay) form. No bulleting or outlines. Value = 20 points each. 

Charlemagne

Clovis

The Black Death

Zheng He

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Essay Section: Study the following questions. At the time for the exam you will be required to address one of them. Value = 30 points.

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FINALLY................You may (and are encouraged to) go beyond the textbook and lecture material in addressing the ID and essay questions. I encourage students to use Wikipedia and/or other internet sources that may lead to a more fully developed answer.

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If, during the course of the exam, you are observed using or viewing a cell phone or notes, your exam will be immediately picked up and you will be referred to the Dean of Students for academic dishonesty. 

NO EXCEPTIONS!