GLOBAL HISTORY 10 HOMEWORK SHEET #1

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1 GLOBAL HISTORY 10 HOMEWORK SHEET #1 Textbook: World History H.W. #1 Read pgs Scientific Revolution 1. Explain how the new scientific method that was developed in the 1500's and 1600's differs from the traditional approach to science. 2. How did Newton explain the workings of the universe? 3. Describe how your life would be different if the Scientific Revolution had not occurred. H.W. #2 Read pgs Enlightenment 1. How did the success of the Scientific Revolution influence enlightened thinkers? 2. Describe the governments favored by a)hobbes b) Locke. 3. Describe the term philosophe. H.W. #3 Read pgs Enlightenment Writers 1. Rousseau put the general will - the common good - over the interest of the individual. Do you agree with that position? Why or why not? Explain. 2. Define enlightened despot and one s goals. 3. Why did the spread of enlightenment ideas threaten the old order? H.W. #4 Read pgs British Colonial Policies 1. Describe the relationship between England and the American Colonies. 2. Pretend you are an American Colonist and write a letter to your relative in England describing life in the Colonies. Take the side of either a British supporter or an American. H.W. #5 Read pgs American Revolution Product of Enlightenment 1. Give 2 examples of how Enlightenment ideas were reflected in a) the Declaration of Independence and b) the Constitution of the United States. 2. Do you think that if Great Britain had treated the colonists differently they would have been content to remain under British rule? Support your answer. 3. In your own words, describe the idea of separation of powers. Then give 2 examples of how your life would be different if the Constitution did not provide for separation of powers. H.W. #6 Read pgs France Ripe for Revolution 1. Describe the 3 estates of French society. 2. Why were members of each estate discontented (upset) with conditions in 1789? 3. Describe Sieyès writing, What is the Third Estate?

2 H.W. #7 Read pgs National Assembly Reforms 1. Describe 2 ideas or reforms contained in a) the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, b) the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, and c) the Constitution of Pretend you are a member of the 3 rd Estate and describe what you have been doing to gain more freedoms in France. H.W. #8 Read pgs Reign of Terror 1. Why did revolutionaries fear that the revolution was in danger? 2. Take the position of a Jacobin and describe the goals and effects of the Reign of Terror. 3. Robespierre wrote, Terror without virtue is fatal. Virtue without terror is powerless. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, and unbending justice. Do you agree with this statement and the idea that the Reign of Terror was necessary to defend the republic? Explain. H.W. #9 Read pgs Napoleon Right For France 1. a) Describe Napoleon Bonaparte s rise to power. b) Why did many French support him? 2. Draw a political cartoon commenting on the rivalry between Britain and Napoleonic France, from either a British or French point of view. H.W. #10 Read pgs Napoleon Victim of Success 1. Imagine that it is 1815 and you are a French citizen. Write a journal entry where you evaluate the reign of Napoleon. 2. How did Napoleon s success contain the seeds of his defeat? H.W. #11 1. DBQ Essay on French Revolution to be done at home and graded as quiz. H.W. # 12 Read pgs Metternich 1. Compare and contrast the political philosophies of a liberal and a reactionary in the 1800s. 2. Describe the 3 guiding principles Metternich used at the Congress of Vienna. 3. How did the ideas of Metternich differ from those of the Enlightenment? H.W. #13 Read pgs Revolutions Global Impact 1. Describe the impact the French Revolution had on revolutionary movements throughout Europe in the 1800s. 2. Create a conversation between 2 ordinary French people in the late 1800s which reveals their thoughts about the political events taking place. 3. Describe and explain the differences between the revolts of 1830 and 1848 in France. H.W. #14 Read pgs Peter & Catherine the Great 1. Explain how the reigns of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great affected the Russian nobility and the common people?

3 H.W. #15 Read pgs French Revolution & Russia 1. Explain why Russian czars opposed the forces of liberalism and nationalism in the Russian Empire? 2. Alexander II declared that it is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it will be abolished by a movement from below. Describe what he means by this. 3. Define pogrom in your own words. H.W. #16 Read pgs ; Latin American Revolutions & French 1. Explain the reasons why Latin American countries rebelled against their European rulers. 2. Did independence bring social advances to Latin American countries? Why or why not? 3. Define and describe: Simón Bolívar, Francois Toussaint-Louverture. H.W. #17 Read pgs ; Mexican Revolutions 1. Describe the factors that led to the Mexican Revolution in Explain Pancho Villa s reasoning for launching a series of anti-american citizen raids. 3. Define and describe: Benito Juárez, Porfirio Díaz. H.W. #18 Read pgs Agricultural Revolution 1. Describe the lifestyle of people living during preindustrial times. 2. Write a diary entry describing the thoughts of a British farmer who has been forced off his land because of the enclosure movement? H.W. # 19 Read pgs Industrial Revolution & England 1. How did the Industrial Revolution transform the textile industry? 2. Is an Industrial Revolution still happening today? Explain why or why not. H.W. #20 Read pgs Industrial Revolution: Blessing or a Curse 1. Imagine you are a teenager living in the early 1900s. Write a letter to your friend in the countryside telling how the new inventions have changed your life. 2. Why were industrialists often able to subject workers to poor working conditions? H.W. #21 Read pgs Spread of Industrial Revolution 1. Explain the concept of: a)industrial capitalism, b)division of labor. 2. Identify: a)guglielmo Marconi, b) Alexander Graham Bell, c) Thomas Edison H.W. #22 Read pgs ; Industrial Revolution & Society 1. Describe three improvements in city life that were made in the 1800s and early 1900s. 2. Why was leisure time so important to people at this time? H.W. #23 Read pgs Industrial Revolution & Art 1. Describe a)romanticism, b)realism, c)impressionism 2. How was nature significant in romantic art?

4 H.W. #24 Read pgs Age of Reform 1. Describe a)laissez-faire, b)socialism, c)proletariat 2. Compare and contrast Capitalism and Marxism. 3. Can poverty be totally eliminated? Explain your answer. H.W. #25 Read pgs Britain Slow Democracy 1. Pretend you are an Irish Catholic farm worker living in Ireland in the 1800s. Write a postcard to your friend expressing your feelings and attitudes about the British government. 2. Describe the actions taken by the suffragettes. H.W. #26 Read pgs France 3 rd Republic H.W. # 27 Read pgs Nationalism Unification 1. Write an obituary (death notice) for Bismarck that evaluates his strengths and weaknesses. 2. Choose either Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo di Cavour, or Giuseppe Garibaldi and explain how that leader furthered the aims of the nationalist movement in Italy. H.W. #28 Read pgs Nationalism Destructive 1. Describe the ways Austria and Hungary were dependent upon and independent of each other in the dual monarchy 2. Explain if the collapse of the Austrian Empire could have been avoided? H.W. #29 1. Thematic Essay on Nationalism to be done at home and counted as a quiz. H.W. #30 Read pgs ; Handout C - Imperialism 1. Read The White Man s Burden by Rudyard Kipling and explain how Kipling feels about people in other countries. H.W. #31 Read pgs ; Handout C - Imperialism Africa 1. Identify: a) partition, b) David Livingstone 2. Explain the main causes and effects of the European partition of Africa. H.W. #32 Read George Orwell s Shooting an Elephant 1. Using the short story, Shooting an Elephant, describe George Orwell s views of imperialism. H.W. #33 Read pgs Imperialism India 1. Describe the immediate causes of the Sepoy Rebellion. 2. How did economic imperialism lead to India becoming a British colony?

5 H.W. #34 Read pgs Imperialism Middle East 1. Describe two problems that contributed to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. 2. Explain why Russia and Britain compete for power in Persia? H.W. #35 Read pgs Imperialism China 1. Describe the Opium Wars and why they were fought between the British and the Chinese. 2. Organize a debate between a British merchant and a Chinese government official about the opium trade in China. 3. Do you think the opium trade was finally more harmful or beneficial to China. Explain. H.W. #36 Read pgs Meiji Restoration 1. Write a dialogue between two advisors to the shogun of Japan, giving arguments for and against opening up Japan to the West in the mid-1800s. 2. Why did Japan want to build an overseas empire? H.W. #37 Read pgs ; Dawn of a New Age 1. Identify a)louis Pasteur, b)marie and Pierre Curie. 2. How are scientific understandings of the 1800s, and the early 1900s being expanded today? H.W. #38 Read pgs Everlasting Peace 1. Explain a)militarism, b)triple Alliance, c)triple Entente. 2. Why did Serbian nationalists plot to assassinate Francis Ferdindand? 3. Do you think war could have been avoided in 1914? Why or why not? H.W. #39 Read pgs Different Type of War 1. Explain how World War I was a war of attrition. 2. Governments on both sides tried to keep casualty figures and other bad news from reaching the public. What effect do you think disastrous defeats such as Tannenberg Caporetto, or Gallipoli would have had on the attitude of people back home? H.W. #40 Read pgs War to End All Wars 1. Imagine you are a soldier fighting for the Allies or for the Central Powers. Write a letter home describing your feelings about the armistice. 2. Write an editorial or draw a cartoon about the Treaty of Versailles that might have appeared in a German newspaper in H.W. #41 Read pgs Lost Generation 1. Explain how the events and aftermath of World War I affected the way many people looked at the world. 2. The era after World War I was a time for breaking with tradition. How could abandoning traditions help a society? How might it harm a society?

6 H.W. #42 Read pgs Russian Revolution 1. How did World War I lead to the collapse of czarist autocracy and the birth of a radical Socialist state? 2. Discuss the main differences that separated the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. 3. Do you think Lenin was justified in closing down the democratically elected constituent assembly in January 1918? Why or why not? H.W. #43 Read pgs Stalin 1. a)how did Stalin transform the Soviet economy? b)what effects did Stalin s economic policies have on the Soviet people? 2. Draw a political cartoon about the Great Purge from the viewpoint of one of the Old Bolsheviks. 3. Predict what might have happened if Trotsky and not Stalin had succeeded Lenin. H.W. #44 Read pgs Chiang Kai-shek 1. Describe the goals of each of the following: a)sun (Yat-sen) Yixian, b)chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), c)mao Zedong 2. Mao said, The Long March is also a seeding machine. It has sown many seeds in eleven provinces, which will sprout, grow leaves, blossom into flowers, bear fruit, and yield a crop in the future. Draw a cartoon illustrating this statement.