WHAP Spring Review Topics 2016

Chapter 21 – Expanding Horizons of Cross-Cultural Interaction

  1. Long-distance trade and travel
  2. Patterns/ missionary
  3. Ibn Battuta
  4. Crisis and recovery
  5. Plague
  6. State Building
  7. Renaissance
  8. Exploration and Colonization
  9. Indian Ocean Trade by Chinese
  10. Europeans in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

The Origins of Global Interdependence – 1500 to 1800

Chapter 22 – Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections

  1. The exploration of the world’s oceans
  2. Motives, technology, voyages
  3. Trade and Conflict in Early Modern Asia
  4. Europeans in SE Asia
  5. Russians in Asia
  6. Seven Years’ War
  7. Ecological Exchanges
  8. Colombian Exchange

Chapter 23 – The Transformation of Europe

  1. The Fragmentation of Western Christendom
  2. Protestant Reformation
  3. Catholic Reformation
  4. Religious Wars
  5. The Consolidation of Sovereign States
  6. Revival of Empire?
  7. New Monarchs
  8. Constitutional States
  9. Early Capitalist Society
  10. Population Grown and Urbanization
  11. Early Capitalism and Protoindustrialization
  12. Social Changes
  13. Transformations in Scientific Thinking
  14. Rethink the Universe
  15. Scientific Revolution
  16. Women and Science

Chapter 24 – New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania

  1. Colliding Worlds
  2. Spanish Caribbean
  3. Mexico and Peru
  4. Iberian Empires
  5. Settler Colonies
  6. Colonial Society in the Americas
  7. Mestizo, mining and agricultures
  8. Sugar and slavery
  9. Fur traders and settlers
  10. Christianity and Native Religions
  11. Europeans in the Pacific
  12. Australia and the Larger World

Chapter 25 – Africa and the Atlantic World

  1. African Politics and Society in Early Modern Times
  2. West and East Africa
  3. Central and Southern Africa
  4. Islam and Christianity; Social Change
  5. The Atlantic Slave Trade
  6. Foundations
  7. Middle Passage
  8. The African Diaspora
  9. Plantation Societies
  10. Cultural Traditions
  11. End of Slave Trade and Abolition

Chapter 26 – Tradition and Change in East Asia

  1. The Quest for Political Stability
  2. Ming, Qing, Scholar-Bureaucrats
  3. Economic and Social Changes
  4. Patriarchal Family
  5. Population Growth and Economic Development
  6. Gentry, Commoners, Soldiers, and Mean People
  7. The Confucian Tradition and new cultural influences
  8. Neo-Confucianism
  9. Return of Christianity
  10. The Unification of Japan
  11. Tokugawa Shogunate
  12. Neo-Confucianism
  13. Christianity and the Dutch

Chapter 27 – The Islamic Empires

  1. Formation of the Islamic Empires
  2. Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal
  3. Imperial Islamic Society
  4. Dynastic States
  5. Agriculture and Trade
  6. Religious Affairs
  7. Cultural Patronage
  8. The Empires in Transition
  9. Deterioration of Imperial Leadership
  10. Economic and Military Decline
  11. Cultural Conservatism

An Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire1750 to 1914

Chapter 28 – Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World

  1. Popular Sovereignty and Political Upheaval
  2. Enlightenment and Revolution
  3. Popular Sovereignty
  4. French Revolution
  5. Reign of Napoleon
  6. The influence of Revolution
  7. Haitian, Latin America
  8. Conservatism and Liberalism
  9. Slavery
  10. Women’s Rights
  11. The Consolidation of national states in Europe
  12. Nations and Nationalism
  13. National communities
  14. Italy and Germany

Chapter 29 – The Making of Industrial Society

  1. Patterns of Industrialization
  2. Factory Systems
  3. Industrial Society
  4. Demographics
  5. Urbanization andmigration
  6. Society
  7. Challenges by Socialists
  8. Global Effects

Chapter 30 – The Americas in the Age of Independence

  1. The Building of American States – (for comparison purposes)
  2. United States and Canada’s Dominion
  3. Latin America
  4. American Economic Development
  5. Migration to the Americas
  6. Economic Expansion, Prosperity, Investments
  7. American Cultural and Social Diversity
  8. Societies and their make-up – ethnicity, identity, and gender

Chapter 31 – Societies at Crossroads

  1. The Ottoman Empire in Decline
  2. Young Turk Era
  3. The Russian Empire under Pressure
  4. Military Defeat and Social Reform
  5. Repression
  6. The Chinese Empire under siege
  7. Opium War to Taiping Rebellion
  8. The Transformation of Japan
  9. Meiji Reformation

Chapter 32 – Building of Global Empires

  1. Foundations of Empire
  2. Imperialism
  3. Tools of Empire
  4. European Imperialism
  5. British in India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia
  6. Scramble for Africa
  7. Pacific
  8. The emergence of new imperial powers
  9. U.S. Imperialism
  10. Japan
  11. Legacies of Imperialism
  12. Economic
  13. Labor
  14. Society
  15. Nationalism and Anticolonial movements

Contemporary Global Realignments1914 to the Present

Chapter 33 – The Great War: The world in Upheaval

  1. The drift toward war
  2. Nationalist
  3. Understanding and alliances
  4. Global War
  5. Total War
  6. East Asia and Pacific
  7. Africa and Southwest Asia
  8. The end of the war
  9. Russian Revolution
  10. US joins the war
  11. After the war

Chapter 34 – An age of Anxiety

  1. Probing Cultural Frontiers
  2. Pessimism
  3. New ideas in Science and art
  4. Global Depression
  5. Government action and Inaction
  6. Challenges to the Liberal Order
  7. Communism grows in Russia
  8. Fascism

Chapter 35 – Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

  1. Asian Paths to Autonomy
  2. India and Home Rule
  3. China needs order
  4. Africa under colonial domination
  5. Colonial Economy
  6. African Nationalism
  7. Latin American struggles with neocolonialism
  8. Impact of Great War
  9. “Good Neighbor” conflicts

Chapter 36 – New Conflagrations: World War II and the Cold War

  1. Origins of World War II
  2. Japan vs. China
  3. Italian and German Aggression
  4. Total War: The World Under Fire
  5. Attacks, invasions, battles
  6. Life During Wartime
  7. Operation, Collaboration and Resistance
  8. The Cold War
  9. Origins and Globalization

Chapter 37 – The End of Empire

  1. Independence in Asia
  2. India’s partition
  3. Vietnam
  4. Arab nationalism and the end ofPalestine
  5. Decolonization in Africa
  6. French out of North Africa
  7. Sub-Saharan Africa
  8. After Independence: Long-term struggles in the postcolonial era
  9. Communism vs. Democracy
  10. Islamic Resurgence
  11. Colonial Legacies
  12. Changes in Latin America

Chapter 38 – A World without Borders

  1. The End of the Cold War
  2. Eastern and Central Europe
  3. Collapse of the Soviet Union
  4. The Global Economy
  5. Globalization
  6. Growth and Trade
  7. Cross-cultural Exchanges and Global Communications
  8. Cultural Interaction
  9. Age of Access
  10. Global Problems
  11. Population pressures and climate change
  12. Labor Servitude
  13. Diseases
  14. Terrorism
  15. Crossing Boundaries
  16. Women and the challenges they face