The Questions to Consider will be part of the midterm and final exams in the course. You should study these questions using your textbook, but you are also encouraged to use any other sources, such as Wikipedia. A good answer to a question to consider should be about a long paragraph. Check out an example.
- How has geography influenced the course of history?
- What is history?
Unit 2 Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Why did Parliament succeed in expanding its powers in England at the expense of the king?
- What were some of the characteristics of political modernization in France?
Unit 3 Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
- Why was the era called the "Enlightenment?"
- What did Isaac Newton achieve as a scientist?
- What were the main characteristics of the Ancien Régime (Old Regime) in France?
- Who was Napoleone di Buonaparte (aka Napoleon) and why was he considered an embodiment of the revolution?
- Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England?
- How did industrial production change Western society?
- What did the Decembrists hope to achieve through their uprising?
- Was Emperor Alexander I an enlightened monarch?
- What was the point of the Crimean War?
- How did Germany and Italy come into existence?
- What were the main points of Marx' critique of capitalism?
- What were some of the distinctive features of nineteenth-century conservatism and liberalism?
- Why did Britain expand its overseas empire in the nineteenth century?
- Why were African societies susceptible to European control?
- Why were Germany and England the major players in the drama of the summer of 1914?
- Why did nobody stop the rush to war in 1914?
- Why were the Bolsheviks able to triumph in the civil war in Russia?
- What factors promoted the collapse of the autocracy in Russia in February 1917?
- How did World War II differ from the Great War?
- How do you explain why the genocide carried out by Nazi Germany occurred?
- How did the Cold War begin and how did it encompass the entire world?
- What caused the outbreak of hostilities in Korea?
- What were some of the common features experienced by countries of the "Developing World" since 1945?
- Why did South Asian leaders insist on the partition of the subcontinent?
- What were some of the common features experiences by countries of the “Developed World” since 1945?
- What is globalization?
Unit 16 Twenty-First Century World
- How have technology developments shaped the modern world?
- What is human progress?