Global Studies II Final Exam Study Sheet

Text- pgs.214-452

Topic 1- The Medieval world

1. feudalism

2. manorialism

3. role of the church

4. knights and chivalry

Topic II- The Growth of Towns

1. guilds

2. causes and effects of the growth of towns

Topic III- The Early Development of Nations

1. the Magna Carta

2. King John

3. Joan of Arc

4. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

Topic IV- the Crusades

1. reasons for

2. results of

3. causes of decline

Topic V- the Plague

Topic VII- Sui, Tang and Sung China

1. economic and cultural achievements

Topic VIII- Medieval Japan

1. early Japanese culture and society

2. feudalism

Topic IX- The Mongols

Topic X- India

1. put in order: Mughal's, Tamerlane. Rajputs, Delhi Sultanate

2. Muslim rule in India

Topic XI- The Ottoman Empire

1. hand out

Topic XII- The Civilizations of Ghana, Axum, Kush, and Mali

1. similarities between

Topic XIII- Maya, Inca, Aztec’s

1. achievements

Topic XIV- The Renaissance in Europe

1. What was it?

2. Machiavelli

3. important figures

4. writing in the vernacular

Topic XV- The Scientific Revolution

1. Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes

Topic XVI- Spain’s American Empire

1. areas of conquest

2. important conquistadors and the places and people they conquered

3. encomienda system

Topic XVII- The Commercial Revolution

1. define

2. mercantilism

Topic XVIII- The Protestant Reformation

1. main ideas of Martin Luther

2. who was John Tetzel

3. Calvinism

Topic XIX- England

1. who were the Puritans

2. English Civil War

3. The Glorious Revolution

Topic XX- Absolutism

1. what countries had absolute rulers

2. Louis XIV and Peter the Great