HIS262 First Exam Study Guide This exam will be in class on Thursday, February 2.

It will cover the material up to that point in class (chapters 12-14 in WTWA). You will need no materials other than a pen (blue or black ink). You will have the entire class to write the exam. The exams test your basic understanding of the main developments in world civilizations for the period, as well as some of the specific historical facts that contributed to those developments. Part I: Short Response (50%) You should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the terms for chapters 12-14 of WTWA. That means you need to understand how our text and class content uses the term to explain something about the history of world civilizations. Another way to think of this is: what is each term an example of, from the way our text and/or class material explains the development of world civilizations over time? For each term, think along the lines of knowing 2 good sentences that identify the term (what it is, about when it happened, who it concerned), and 1-2 good sentences that explain its historical significance (see above). The exam may ask you to write out the significance of a term, or to fill in the blank in a sentence that identifies or states the significance of a term (as used in the text and/or class).

Part II. Long Response (50%) The second part of the exam will be a longer response. Below are the core questions that will be used to create the questions on the exam. You will be asked to provide a response that is clearly written and well-supported with specific evidence from the text and class material. The exam may narrow the choices listed below (in other words, the exam may give you two societies to compare/contrast, or may only ask for political and social developments, for example). Be sure to take advantage of your studying for the terms -- they may be helpful in serving as evidence for your essays. y Compare/contrast the ways contact with the New World contribute to political, economic, and social changes in the Old World? To answer, describe developments in the following: China; Western Europe; Africa; the Ottoman Empire; Southeast Asia. Compare/contrast developments in culture and knowledge during the 16th and 17th centuries in the following: the Mughal India; China; Japan; Africa; Europe.