Unit 2 Seventeenth Century Europe History Homework Help
Unit 1 Introduction
- History
- Civilization
Unit 2 Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Oliver Cromwell
- Louis XIV
- Old Regime (Ancien Régime)
- Glorious Revolution
Unit 3 East Asia
- Qing (Manchu) Dynasty
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Unit 4 Persia, a Gunpowder Empire?
- Mughal Empire
- Safavid Empire
- Suleiman
- Akbar
Unit 5 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
- Isaac Newton
- Voltaire
- Denis Diderot
- Baron de Montesquieu
Unit 6 Industrialization and Western Modernization
- Karl Marx
- Urbanization
- Industrial Revolution
- Charles Darwin
Unit 7 Nineteenth-Century World
- Opium Wars
- Porfirio Diaz
- Chinua Achebe
- Imperialism
Unit 8 Russia
- Lenin
- Stalin
- Bolsheviks
- Nicholas II
Unit 9 World War I
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Entente Cordiale
- Trench Warfare
- Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal)
Unit 10 World War II
- Benito Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler
- Operation Barbarossa
- Final Solution
Unit 11 South Asian Independence
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Non-Aligned Movement
Unit 12 Decolonization and Nation-Building
- Nelson Mandela
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Apartheid
- United Nations
Unit 13 Cold War
- Yalta conference
- Vietnam War
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Cuban missile crisis
Unit 14 Worldwide Modernization
- Hezbollah
- Mao Zedong
- Globalization
- Ho Chi Minh
Unit 15 Final Exam
- Technological Revolution
- Human rights
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
- An Inconvenient Truth(2006)
Unit 16 Twenty-First Century World
- History
- Civilization
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Unit 1 Introduction
- How has geography influenced the course of history?
- What is human progress?
Unit 2 Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Why did Parliament succeed in expanding its powers in England?
- What were some of the characteristics of political modernization in France?
Unit 3 East Asia
- What were some of the characteristics of Chinese and Japanese society in the early modern period?
- During the Tokugawa Shogunate, how did Japanese society respond to Western contact in the early modern period?
Unit 4 Persia, a Gunpowder Empire?
- What factors allowed the Ottoman Turks to create such a large empire?
- What was the key to Akbar’s success as a ruler?
Unit 5 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
- What did Isaac Newton achieve as a scientist?
- Why was the era called the “Enlightenment?”
Unit 6 Industrialization and Western Modernization
- How did industrial production change Western society?
- Compare and contrast some of the major characteristics of economic and political modernization in England and Japan in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
Unit 7 Nineteenth-Century World
- Why did Britain expand its overseas empire in the nineteenth century?
- Why were African societies susceptible to European control?
Unit 8 Russia
- Why were the Bolshevks able to triumph in the civil war in Russia?
- What factors promoted the collapse of the tsarist autocracy in Russia in February 1917?
Unit 9 World War I
- Why did the Great War turn into a world war?
- Why did nobody stop the rush to war in 1914?
Unit 10 World War II
- How did World War II differ from the Great War?
- How do you explain why the genocide carried out by Nazi Germany occurred?
Unit 11 South Asian Independence
- Why did South Asian leaders insist on the partition of the subcontinent?
- Compare and contrast some of the major characteristics of economic and political modernization in England and Japan in the twentieth century.
Unit 12 Decolonization and Nation-Building
- What were some of the common features experienced by countries of the “Developing World” since 1945?
- Compare and contrast the experiences of Angola and Ghana after each country achieved its independence?
Unit 13 Cold War
- How did the Cold War begin?
- What were some of the key events of the Cold War?
Unit 14 Worldwide Modernization
- Why did China and India react differently to the Western challenge?
- What were some of the common features experienced by countries of the “Developed World?”
Unit 15 Final Exam
- What are some of the different political ideologies present in the world since 1945?
- How have technology developments shaped the modern world?
Unit 16 Twenty-First Century World
- How has geography influenced the course of history?
- What is human progress?
Please answer each question in a long paragraph. Thanks.
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