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WORLD HISTORY
GUIDED PERIOD QUESTIONS
DR. CAZIER
DIRECTIONS: For each chapter of your textbook, you are assigned the following Guided Questions.

You are to complete an essay outline for ONE question of your choosing according to the Assignments
and Due Dates calendar. For example, according to the Assignments and Due Dates calendar, Chapter 1
is due 8/23 (A) or 8/24 (B). Therefore, pick one question that aligns to chapter one of your text to
develop an essay outline.

Refer to the “Guided Questions: Outline process including argumentation and contextualization”
handout posted to your Google classroom for the method of answering the question. See me
immediately with any questions. Remember, as stated in your course syllabus, no late work is accepted.
So, if you are unsure how to go about this process, see me post-haste!

PERIOD 1 (CHAPTER 1): TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS, 8,000

B.C.E.-600 B.C.E.

1. Describe what enabled civilizations to develop.

2. Identify the characteristics that are critical for a society to become a civilization.

3. Compare the drawbacks of non-civilized societies with civilized societies.

4. Compare the advantages of an agriculturally based society with a hunter-gatherer society.

5. Evaluate the significance of Jewish monotheism in the religious history of early civilization.

6. Compare the main features of Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations. What did the two
civilizations have in common as early civilizations? What were their main differences in
values and organizations?

PERIOD 2 (CHAPTERS 2-5): ORGANIZATION AND REORGANIZATION OF HUMAN SOCIETIES, 600

B.C.E.-600 C.E.

1. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of classical Chinese society.

2. Trace the rise of Confucianism.

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3. Identify the ways that Confucian philosophy supported the political structure in China.

4. Summarize why bureaucracy developed in classical China.

5. How was China able to accept two major belief systems, Confucianism and Daoism?

6. Trace the development of the caste system.

7. Compare Buddhism and Hinduism.

8. What features of Indian and Chinese geography help explain each area’s social patterns?

9. Compare the caste system with the organization of Chinese and Greek society.

10. Compare the political implications of Hinduism and Confucianism.

11. Compare the family structures of India and China.

12. Trace the development of Ashoka’s leadership approach.

13. Compare Greek and Roman political structures.

14. Evaluate the significance of the Hellenistic period in Asian and African history.

15. Compare the main political, social, and economic features of the Roman Empire and Han
China.

16. Assess how and why the Indians developed long-lasting polytheistic religions but the Greeks
did not.

17. Compare the scientific achievements and approaches of classical India, China, and the
Mediterranean.

18. Compare the political philosophical thoughts of the Greeks and the Chinese.

19. Compare the eastern and western portions of the Roman Empire.

20. How can it be argued that the Roman Empire did not really “fall” in 476 C.E.?

21. Compare the factors in the decline of the classical civilizations.

22. Compare the main features of the civilizations of Kush, Axum, and Ethiopia.
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PERIOD 3 (CHAPTERS 6-15): REGIONAL AND TRANSREGIONAL INTERACTIONS,
600-1450
1. Describe the nature of Bedouin society before Muhammad received his revelations.

2. Identify how Islam addressed the fundamental problems in Arabian society.

3. Trace the succession dispute over the office of caliph.

4. Compare the Abbasid Empire with the Umayyad Empire.

5. Identify the achievements of the Arab phase of Islamic development ending in 750 C.E.

6. Compare women in the Islamic world with women in other contemporary societies of this
time period.

7. Evaluate the weaknesses of the later Abbasid Empire.

8. Describe the position of women in the Abbasid Empire.

9. Trace the stages of Islamic incursion into India.

10. To what extent were Muslims successful in converting Indians to Islam?

11. Trace how Islam entered Africa.

12. How did Islam and the beliefs of indigenous societies fuse among African peoples?

13. Where did cultures in Africa develop that were NOT affected by Islam? Describe the nature
of their organization.

14. Evaluate the significance of the Byzantine Empire to the civilization of Europe.

15. Compare Orthodox Christianity to Roman Catholicism.

16. Evaluate the reasons for the decline of the Byzantine Empire.

17. Describe the influence of the Byzantine Empire on the development of Russia.

18. Define manorialism and feudalism.

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19. Trace the developments in 9th- and 10th-century western Europe that pointed the way to
political and economic recovery.

20. Describe the signs of economic prosperity after 1000.

21. Identify the crises of the later Middle Ages.

22. Compare the political, social and economic organizations of the Aztec and Incan Empires.

23. Trace the Sui rise and fall from power.

24. Correlate the rise of the Tang with the Confucian renaissance.

25. Compare the strengths of the Song Empire with the Tang.

26. Describe the status of women during the Tang-Song era.

27. Describe the nature of Japanese society and economy during the period of the daimyos.

28. Trace the imposition of Sinification on Korea and its affect on the social development of the
country.

29. Compare the common elements of Chinese culture of all three of the satellite civilizations
(Japan, Korea, and Vietnam).

30. Describe the nature of the military and administrative organization of the Mongol dynasty
under Chinggis Khan.

31. Trace the effect of the Mongol conquest of Russia, Islamic heartlands, and Chinese society.

32. Describe the positive aspects of the Mongol conquests.

33. Compare the decline of the Middle East and China to the relative rise of the West during the
14th century.

34. Describe the nature of the Italian Renaissance. To what extent was it strictly an Italian
experience?

35. Define the nature of early Western exploration and colonial patterns.

36. Summarize the transitions taking place in world history circa 1450.
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PERIOD 4 (CHAPTERS 16-22): GLOBAL INTERACTIONS, 1450-1750

1. Describe the technological innovations that made the global domination of the West
possible.

2. Trace the early exploration of the world by the West.

3. Define the Colombian Exchange.

4. Evaluate the results of the creation of a world economy.

5. Compare British and French North America with other European colonies.

6. Describe the major changes in Western Europe in this era.

7. Compare the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance.

8. Describe the Protestant churches that were established because of the Reformation. Define
the nature of religious warfare.

9. Generalize the causes and results of the commercial revolution.

10. Define the Scientific Revolution. Describe some of its major discoveries.

11. Identify the elements of absolute monarchy. Trace the development of absolute monarchs.

12. Define the Enlightenment. Describe its influence on the scientific revolution.

13. Describe the effects of Mongol occupation on Russian civilization.

14. Trace Russian expansion under the Ivans.

15. Summarize the extent of Westernization under Peter the Great.

16. Describe the nature of Russian serfdom.

17. Trace how Russia became economically dependent on the West.

18. Describe the nature of the exploitation of Indians in the Americas.

19. Identify the nature of the Spanish system of government in the American colonies.
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20. Describe the social hierarchy of the American colonies.

21. Describe the demographic effect of the African slave trade on the sub-Saharan region.

22. Trace the changes in the volume of the Atlantic slave trade between 1450 and 1850.

23. Describe the effects of the slave trade on African state formation.

24. Summarize the social structure of American slave-based societies.

25. Trace how the slave trade came to an end.

26. Compare the three Muslim empires: the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals.

27. Compare the declines of the Abbasid and Ottoman empires.

28. Evaluate the reasons for the failure of the Mughal dynasty.

29. Describe the nature of the Asian sea-trading network.

30. Trace how the Dutch displaced the Portuguese and compare their participation in the Asian
trading network with that of the Portuguese.

31. Trace the success of the European Christian missionary efforts in Asia during this time
period.

32. Trace the Ming restoration of traditional Chinese forms of government.

33. Describe the steps that led to the restoration of the Japanese shogunate.

PERIOD 5 (CHAPTERS 23-27): INDUSTRIALIZATION AND GLOBAL INTERACTION, 1750-1914

1. Compare the causes of the American and French Revolutions.

2. Describe the lasting reforms of the French Revolution.

3. Trace the changes that led to industrialization.

4. Describe the changes in social organization that industrialization created.

5. Identify the links between industrialization and revolution.

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6. Describe the divergence of science and the arts in the period after 1850.

7. Compare and contrast the motives for imperialism in the pre-industrial era with those of
the industrial era.

8. Compare European social interaction with indigenous peoples before and after 1850.

9. Identify the motives behind the global scramble for colonies.

10. Compare tropical dependencies, white dominions, and contested settler colonies.

11. Trace the causes of political change in Latin America.

12. Contrast the Brazilian move to independence with other Latin American independence
movements.

13. Identify the successes of reform at resolving the problems of race, class, and gender in the
late 19th century.

14. Summarize the economic boom of the period after 1870.

15. Generalize the ways that the United States entered the political and economic affairs of
Latin America.

16. Describe the 18th-century crisis in the Ottoman Empire and why it was not fatal.

17. Trace the events that led to the overthrow of the Ottoman sultanate in 1908.

18. Trace how Muhammad Ali came to power.

19. Summarize how the British gained control of Egypt.

20. Describe the problems that the Manchu dynasty encountered during the 19th century, and
identify the reforms that the Manchu introduced and how successful were they.

21. Trace European entry into China.

22. Trace the events that led to the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.

23. Compare Japan and Russia during the process of industrialization.

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24. Describe Russian reform and industrialization from 1861 to 1900.

25. Describe the forces leading to revolution in Russia by 1905.

26. Describe Japanese reform and industrialization from 1853 to 1900.

PERIOD 6 (CHAPTERS 28-36): ACCELERATING GLOBAL CHANGE AND REALIGNMENTS, 1914-

PRESENT

1. Describe the causes of World War I.

2. Describe the effect of World War I on European colonies.

3. Trace how the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of totalitarianism in Italy and Germany.

4. Identify the weapons and technology that led to massive casualties in the World War I.

5. Summarize how the entry of the United States changed the war, both militarily and
politically.

6. Summarize the political, psychological, and economic results of World War I.

7. Characterize the Roaring Twenties.

8. Explain why Italy was the first country in Western Europe to experience a sweeping change
of its governmental form.

9. Describe how the United States was so successful in its rapid economic advance after the
World War I.

10. Describe the factors that led to Japan’s shift from a liberal democracy to a military
controlled government after World War I.

11. Was the Great Depression inevitable? Why or why not?

12. Define “totalitarianism” and provide examples.

13. Compare totalitarianism in the U.S.S.R. and Germany.

14. Trace the unique course of the United States in answering the dilemma of the Great
Depression.

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15. Give reasons that Japan embarked on a foreign policy of conquest after World War I.

16. Relate Great Depression to political instability.

17. Was World War II inevitable? Why or why not?

18. Compare the Germans’ policy toward Jews and the Japanese policy toward the Chinese.

19. Why were the Germans and Japanese unable to sustain their level of victories? What role
did the U.S.S.R. play in allied victory?

20. Describe how the war conferences contributed to the Cold War.

21. How did the United Nations’ plans for the Middle East differ from what occurred?

22. Which side, East or West, was more responsible for the start of the cold war? Why?

23. Summarize the purposes and outcomes of the Marshall Plan.

24. Generalize the positive and negative outcomes of the implementation of the welfare state.

25. Describe how the changing roles of women affected Western society.

26. Identify the ways in which the Communist system was unable to compete with its capitalist
rivals.

27. Describe the political and economic reasons for the United States’ interventions in Latin
America.

28. Evaluate the reasons why the Cuban Revolution did not spread to other areas of Latin
America.

29. Trace the status of women in Latin America during the 20th century.

30. Identify the problems that faced Latin America as the 20th century ended.

31. Define “neo-colonialism.”

32. Compare post-independence policies in India and Egypt.

33. Summarize the influences that contributed to Islamic fundamentalists gaining power in Iran.

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34. Evaluate how the end of World War II impacted the states of the Pacific Rim.

35. Identify the reasons for the enormous economic growth of Japan and the Pacific Rim after
1945.

36. Define how Mao’s political beliefs affected the nature of the Communist system after 1945.

37. Trace the gains women achieved in China, Japan, and the Pacific Rim states after 1945.

38. Trace trends in political organization and economic development in 20th-century world
civilizations.

39. In what ways has the 20th century offered evidence of human progress? In what ways has
humanity regressed?

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