assignment #1. Civ. Honors
Name: ____________________________
Date: _________________________
Using ONLY your textbook, answer the following questions. Do both sections. If you turn in your assignment early you will receive two points extra credit. 50 Points Possible. This is NOT a group assignment. Do your own work. Those who use the internet for answers or get answers from classmates will receive a zero on the assignments. Those who provide answers will also receive a zero on the assignment.
SECTION I: Using your text (and only your text) answer the following questions from chapters 18-20. 30 points possible for this section.
SECTION II: Choose TWO of the following questions and write a complete essay for each. (10 points possible for each essay—20 points total.) The essays must be type-written, double-spaced, one-inch margins.
1. What were some of the most prominent differences between China and Japan during this era and how did these differences shape the two nations’ economic and political development?
2. What was the Glorious Revolution and how did it alter the English political system?
3. What were the most important elements that united all Islamic states? Why was there a lack of unity between these states from 1500 to 1800? How and why were the European powers able to promote division among these various states?
Date: _________________________
Using ONLY your textbook, answer the following questions. Do both sections. If you turn in your assignment early you will receive two points extra credit. 50 Points Possible. This is NOT a group assignment. Do your own work. Those who use the internet for answers or get answers from classmates will receive a zero on the assignments. Those who provide answers will also receive a zero on the assignment.
SECTION I: Using your text (and only your text) answer the following questions from chapters 18-20. 30 points possible for this section.
- In China during the Ming and Qing dynasties the _______________ made all important decisions and wielded despotic power at their courts.
- The ____________________ view of society was patriarchal.
- The 1689 _____________________________________________excluded Russia from northern Manchuria.
- During the reign of emperor ____________________ the Qing dynasty reached its highest level of prosperity and power.
- In order to avoid a local uprising, in 1588 Hideyoshi ordered a _______________ _______________ to disarm the peasants.
- The____________________were the most powerful feudal leaders in Japan from the 10th to 19th century.
- In the early 1600s, Tokugawa Ieyasu established his headquarters in __________ .
- “____________________________________________________________” refers to trade officially sanctioned by the Japanese ruler.
- The Narrow Road of Oku was written by the Japanese poet and former Samurai, ____________________ .
- The____________________were the elite Korean families during the Choson period.
- The“___________________________________ _______________” refers to southward movement of Vietnamese peoples.
- The House of____________________ was ruling family of Brandenburg/Prussia since 1417.
- The ____________________were Calvinists who wanted to purify the Anglican church.
- From 1649 to 1660, England was in fact a military despotism but officially was called a Puritan ____________________ led by Oliver Cromwell.
- Politically, the________________________________________replaced James II with William and Mary.
- The _______________________ ______________________ was a document to provide for the legal basis for a single line of inheritance within the Habsburg dynasty through Charles VI’s daughter, Maria Theresa.
- The________________________________________refers to social, economic, and political relationships before 1789.
- The concept of“________________________________________”maintained that the household was the fundamental unit of production and consumption.
- The________________________________________resulted in larger farms and social turmoil.
- The consolidation or common lands in England by the British landlords to increase production and commercial profits was known as ____________________ .
- The Ottoman Empire originally centered on the modern-day country of____________________ .
- ____________________was the true founder of the Ottoman Empire.
- Islamic religious law is known as ____________________.
- The ____________________ system required each province of the Ottoman Empire to furnish a levy of Christian boys who were raised as Muslims and became soldiers in the Ottoman army.
- The most famous slave corps in the Ottoman military was the_____________________ .
- After 1774, the protector of Orthodox Christians in the Islamic empires was____________________ .
- In the Safavid Empire, Shah Isma’il enforced ___________________ conformity.
- The____________________school of theological-philosophical thought merged Persian Islamic thought with Islamic traditions of Aristotelianism and Platonism.
- ____________________can be described as a religious eclectic who showed not only tolerance but also unusual interest in different religious traditions.
- The Mughal dynasty sought to end the political fragmentation of ____________________.
SECTION II: Choose TWO of the following questions and write a complete essay for each. (10 points possible for each essay—20 points total.) The essays must be type-written, double-spaced, one-inch margins.
1. What were some of the most prominent differences between China and Japan during this era and how did these differences shape the two nations’ economic and political development?
2. What was the Glorious Revolution and how did it alter the English political system?
3. What were the most important elements that united all Islamic states? Why was there a lack of unity between these states from 1500 to 1800? How and why were the European powers able to promote division among these various states?