Study guide

TEST 2

Date: April 9 in sections [Note: Chris' 6th period section will take the test in TURL 2318]

Format:

I. matching (15 questions; 2 pts each)

II. fill in the blank (20 questions; 2 pts each) [we will provide a wordbank]

III. document identifications (3 excerpts, 4 pts each): identify title, author, date, and significance

Queen of Britain and Emperor of China, Treaty of Nanking
Thomas B. Macaulay, Minute on Education
National Assembly, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Napoleon, Proclamation to the Egyptians
French government, Imperial Catechism
Thomas Carlyle, "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question"
Rudyard Kipling, "White Man's Burden" ; "Recessional"

IV. multiple choice questions based on readings (6 questions, 2 pts each)

Pagden, Chapters 11 & 12
Marshall and Williams, "Enlarging the Sphere of Contemplation"
Drayton, "The Collaboration of Labour"
Hall, "Imperial Man"
Singh, Train to Pakistan

TEST I
I. Matching (15 questions; 2 pts each)
Phillip II of Macedon
Alexander III
Rajah Porus
Octavian
Prince Henry the Navigator
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortes
B. de las Casas
Phillip II
Charles V
Henry VIII
Francis Drake
Richard Hakluyt
Humphrey Gilbert
Walter Ralegh
John Hawkins
James Grant
James Cook
Omai
Equiano

II. Fill in the blank (20 questions; 2 pts each)
imperium
metropole
collaborators
colonia
plantation
civilization
barbarians
Magadah
Al Andalus
compass
astrolabe
Madeira
Cape Verde
Sao Thome
trading-post empires
age of partnership
chartered companies
East India Company
encomienda
Requerimiento
the Fleet system
Columbian exchange
New Holland
United East India Company of the Netherlands (VOC)
Church of England
Old English
New English
anglicization
Navigation Act
mercantilism
capitalism
Bight of Biafra
Luanda
plantocracy
metis
asiento
Georgia
Royal Proclamation
assimilation
accommodation
Quebec Act
the Encyclopedie
globalization

III. Events [see lecture notes, chronology in Pagden, and Osterhammel] (4 sets; 3 points each)
Peloponnesian Wars
Punic Wars
rule of Alexander the Great
rule of Octavian
Reconquista (completed)
Treaty of Tordesillas
Cortes' overthrow of the Aztec (Mexica) Empire
unification of Spanish and Portuguese crowns
Dutch declaration of independence from Spain
Dutch East India Company charter
Tudor conquest of Ireland
English East India Company charter
establishment of Jamestown settlement
the sugar revolution
Glorious Revolution
War of Jenkins' Ear/ the Austrian Succession
Seven Years' War
James Cook's first voyage

IV. Readings (6 questions, 3 points each)
Answer multiple choice questions on the Mattern, Gillis, Schivelbusch, and Equiano readings.

Sample questions (from another class)

Matching
A. Siraj-uddaula                
B. Thomas Clarkson         
C. Tipu Sultan
D. Richard Cobden

           After writing a prize-winning essay while an undergraduate at Cambridge, I took it upon myself to educate the English people about the horrors of the slave trade.

           I was affronted when the East India Company decided to fortify Calcutta (which was a part of my domain) at the beginning of the Seven Years War and tried to follow the advice of my grandfather to reduce the power of the English.

           I was one of the co-founders of the Anti-Corn Law League and a “poster boy” for the free trade movement.

           I was the ruler of the Mysore kingdom in southern India that, after four wars with the English, was finally defeated by Governor Wellesley in 1799.

Fill in the blank
1. Name one of the English joint stock/ charter companies and identify its main focus of operations:                              

2.                                    was granted to Upper and Lower Canada in 1848 to address the grievances of colonials who wanted more say in their own affairs.

3. The                                      led a rebellion in Ireland in 1798; one consequence was the                                  of 1801.

Put the following events in chronological order
A.  The French Revolution
B.  The Glorious Revolution
C.  The Tudor conquest of Ireland

Readings

Equiano eventually made his home in:

A. London
B. Barbados
C. Luanda
D. Savannah