Wd Hist AP Sem Per. 4 Assignments

Do a review of Forrest Gump using the 4 prompts below

1. React to Roger Ebert's review
2. Select several examples of Forrest's ironic, "stupid" remarks which illustrate his understanding of the moral dilemmas he faces.
3. Evaluate the film's attempt to put Forrest in the historical events of the 60s.
4. What do you think about the films commentary about "fate" or destiny?

Terms to know for the test Tuesday
Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Han, Rome, Socrates, Muhammed, Lao-tzu, Vikings, Arabs, Indian Ocean trade, Ibn Batuta, Chinese manufacturing, Samurai, midwife, Indonesian Islam, Mongols, Vasco da Gama, Zheng He, West African slave trade, southern slavery, mosque, World Economy Theory, Aztecs, Haitian revolution, bound feet, corsets, French and Russian revolution, extraterritoriality, Indian Congress Party, Young Turks,

Read pages 164-199
from the Cracking book.

Chinese and Mexican revolutions, African independence, India China trade, Coptic Christians, Swahili, Crusader States, Fatimid Empire, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, Italian City states, Ottoman Empire, Japanese Emperor, Austro Hungarian Empire, Prague Spring, Mao, Gandhi

* European dominance
Scientific Revolution
Renaissance
Humanism
Medici
Brunelleschi
Durer
Gutenberg
Machievelli
Erasmus
Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII


Counter-reformation
Jesuits, Loyola
Council of Trent
Copernicus, Newton, Bacon
Deism
Divine right
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
Voltaire
Tordesillas 152-165

1. How did Spaniards change the trade patterns of the world through their explorations and settlement? (Vespucci, Columbus, Cortez, Magellan, Pizarro)
2. Compare the Dutch, English, French, and Spanish in their motives in the New World. (Dutch East India co., Raleigh)
3. How did European colonies fit into the mercantilist philosophy? 306-308

Hanseatic League
Silk Road
Indian Ocean trade
Seljuk Turks
Crusades
Black death
Germanic Tribes
Magyars
Buddhists in Japan
Abbasid Dynasty 137-150Delhi Sultanate
Tamerlane
Mongols
Golden Horde
Kublai Khan
Kush/Axum
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
Mansa Musa
Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
Tenochtitlan

Compare the Maya, Aztecs and Incas with other ancient civilizations as to their political, social and economic structures, along with their architecture. Why did they fall? 238-248

William the Conqueror
Magna Carta
Hugh Capet
Joan of Arc
Hundred years war
Bourbons
Ferdinand & Isabella
Tatars
Czar, Ivan the terrible
Tang, Song
Grand Canal
Meritocracy
Gunpowder empires
Wu Zhao
Foot-binding
Kami
Prince Shotoku
Taika Reforms
Fujiwara
Shogun
Daimyo, Bushido
Quran
Mohammad
Five Pillars
Mecca, Medina
Abu Bakr, caliph
Charles Martel, Tours
Sunni/Shi'ite
Abbasid, Baghdad
Sufis, Umayyad
Mongols
Byzantine, Justinian

Orthodox Christian
Vladimir
King Clovis
Carolingian, Pepin
Charlemagne, Otto
Magyars
Vassals, fiefs, manor
Chivalry, feudalism
Primogeniture, serfs
Crusades, Hanseatic
Scholasticism, Aquinas

Ehrlich
Aswan
Vietnam
Jinnah
LB Johnson
Bhutan, Kashmir
Nehru
Democratic Socialism
Shi'ite Sunni
Cornwallis
Mughal
Urdu, Vaishya
Aurangzeb
Akbar, Ashoka
Dharma, Rigveda
Gupta, Ganges
Mahabharata
Vishnu, Shiva, Brahman
Krishna, Arjuna
Jainism, Buddhism
Dravidian, Aryans
Angor Wat
Srivijaya, Shudra
Khyber pass
1. How well has India's democracy encouraged economic growth? (Nehru, Indira, Kashmir, Sikh, Tamils)
2. What factors limit Pakistani and Bangladesh prosperity?
3. Why did the four little tigers manage a unprecedented degree of technological development? 656-662

1. How is Mohenjo-Daro and other Indian civilizations alike and different than those in others around the world? (theocracy, Great Bath, trade, malaria)
2. How did the Aryan invasion determine Indian social classes and religious beliefs of India? (Vedas, brahmins, kshatrija, shudra, caste, pariahs)
3. What are the tenets of Hinduism? (Karma, dharma, moksha, reincarnation) 44-49

1. What brought about colonization after WWII? (nationalism, Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi*, Nehru, Dien Bien Phu)
2. What events illustrated the lack of preparation of all parties for independence? (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Commonwealth)
3. What problems have faced the 3rd World after independence? 640-646

1. How did the overlay of Muslim culture add still another element of diversity to Indian society? (Sikhs, purdah, Rubaiyat, Taj Mahal, madresh, Urdu, jagir, mansabdari)
2. How does the Rubaiyat reflect Muslim culture? 391-395

Gupta,
Qin, Han, Wu Ti
Athens, Sparta
Persian wars
Pericles
Delian league
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Plebians, patricians
Twelve Tables
Carthage, Punic Wars


Triumvirates
Caesar
Pax Romana
Paganism
Wang Mang
Constantine, Diocletian
Visogoths, Attilla
Silk Road
Dao, Confucian, legalism
Hinduism, Buddhism
Judaism, Christianity, Islam

95-117

1. How did differences between Sunnis and Shiites lead to power struggles in Persia? (Shah Abbas, Isfahan)
2. Why was Akbar such a successful leader of the India? ( jizya, Rajputs, Aurangzeb)
3. How did India react to European intrusion? (factories, East India Co., Clive, Seven Years' War) 387-392

1. What are the roles of Hindu gods, Vishnu, Brahman, and Shiva? (Upanishads)
2. What were the doctrines of the Jains?*
3. Describe the life of a typical Indian woman. (sati, Kama Sutra)
4. How did Indian culture influence East Asia? ( Khmer, Anghor) 188-194

1. What made the Gupta Dynasty a golden age of Hindu civilization? (Kalidasa, Fahsien, Sanskrit, zero)
2. How did South India differ from the North? (Pali, Dravidian, sculpture, Ajanta, Delhi Sultanate, Harun)
3. What Hindu values are in the "Father's Lesson" and the excerpt from the Bhagavad-Gita? 184-188

Foundations History thru 600 cepp. 85-96Hunter/gatherer
Neolithic
Agricultural rev.
City-states
Mesopotamia
Ziggurats
Polytheistic
Hammurabi
Hittites
Phoenicians
Ashoka
Hebrews
Egypt
Indus Valley
Khyber pass
Aryans
Caste
Brahmans
Shang China
Zhou
Mandate of heaven
Mauryan

1. What are the tenets of Buddhism and how did it split into sects? (nirvana, Eightfold path, Mahayana, Theravada)
2. Do a point of view analysis of the Buddha? Where did his ideas come from? How would he respond to today's Buddhism?
3. How was Buddhism spread? (Mauryans, Ashoka, Gupta, Tibet, China) 49-52

1. How is Mohenjo-Daro and other Indian civilizations alike and different than those in others around the world? (theocracy, Great Bath, trade, malaria)
2. How did the Aryan invasion determine Indian social classes and religious beliefs of India? (Vedas, brahmins, kshatrija, shudra, caste, pariahs)
3. What are the tenets of Hinduism? (Karma, dharma, moksha, reincarnation) 44-49

Delhi Sultanate
Tamerlane
Mongols
Golden Horde
Kublai Khan
Kush/Axum
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
Mansa Musa
Mayans, Aztecs, Incas
Tenochtitlan
Hanseatic League
Silk Road
Indian Ocean trade
Seljuk Turks
Crusades
Black death
Germanic Tribes
Magyars
Buddhists in Japan
Abbasid Dynasty 137-150

study chapters 19,31,48,53 for test on Japan and SE Asia Friday

1. What challenges to their nationalism did the countries of SE Asia face? (Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
2. What were the contrasting povs of the American, North and South in the Vietnam war? (Ho Chi Minh, Johnson)
3. Explain the ups and downs of the four little tigers. (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, S. Korea) 659-662

1. What factors led to the economic growth and success of Japan after WWII?
( World Bank, IMF, zaibatsu)
2. How do you account for the "flaws" in the Japanese social fabric such as housing issues and disrespect for the elderly?
3. Why has the Japanese "New Woman" been caught in modernist dilemma? 655-657

1. Why did Japan respond so vigorously to the challenge of Westernization? (Meiji Restoration, Perry, extraterritoriality, Russo-Japanese War)
2. What were Japanese imperial designs between the world wars? (Manchuria, Anti-Comintern Pact, Chiang, Pearl Harbor)
3. How did Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Filipino people respond to European colonialism? (prosperity, reform, culture system, nationalism, Spanish-American War) 597-600

Kabuki Theater due: March 20

You and three other students (a mix of 9th and 10th graders) are to create a play based on a historical incident in Japanese, Chinese or Southeast Asian history. You must include in your play least 16 elements (listed separately) that identify your play as Kabuki or some other Asian genre (waylang kulit, bunraku, etc.). See the Kabuki website for details of many elements. (http://www.lightbrigade.demon.co.uk/index.htm) They include: jidaimono, sewamono, (styles of stories),
Debayashi, Hayashi, Geza, (musical ensembles),
Shamisen, Tsuzumi, Taiko, Takebue, Nohkan, (musical instruments which may be simulated),
Odori, Mai, Furi, (dance styles)
Hengemono, onnagata', Sukeroku, happi coat, (costume related issues)
Kumadori, suji-guma. (makeup issues)
hanamichi, mawari butai (staging issues)

Each person in the group is responsible for research and development of four of the elements. Explanations of each element should include historical background answering why the costuming, for example, was limited by restrictions that forbade satirizing the elite.

You are to tell the full story and act out at least 5 minutes of dialogue or action. You also need to explain the details of costuming, staging and other elements.

A written summary of your presentation with a bibliography should be submitted by each student designating individual contributions.

1. How did the Japanese version of Confucianism help them respond to Westernization? (pragmatic secularism, Matthew Perry)
2. Compare the regions of SE Asia as to their early response to European influence. (Tome Pines*)
3. Compare French, Spanish, Dutch and English colonial policy in SE Asia. (Raffles, culture system, straits settlements)
4. How did Thailand remain independent? 373-377

1. How did the Tokugowa Shoguns play off the daimyo and other forces to maintain power? (Edo, Kyoto)
2. What economic and demographic changes occurred during the Tokugawa rule? (sakoku, guilds, samurai, ronin)
3. In art and other areas how were Japanese institutions original adaptations? How were they entirely their own? (Kabuki, Haiku) 370-373

1. What was Japan's reaction to European and Chinese influences?
2. How did Japan's shogun's deal with feudal forces within the country? (Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Tokugawa*, samurai, sakoku) 366-369

1. What makes SE Asia a strategic location? What factors diminished its importance?
2. What outside influences changed the cultures of Southeast Asia?
3. Compare Burma, Thailand and Vietnam as to their national culture and resilience to outside influence. 217-222

1. How did the changes in Japanese writing affect their literature?
2. What did the Tale of Genji tell of the values of the Japanese aristocracy?*
3. Explain the differences between Pure Land, Nichiren and Zen Buddhism.* 215-217

1. How did Japan vacillate between central control and feudalism? (Nara clans, Dokyo, Fujiwara, shoganate, samurai, bushido, Kamakura, shoen, shiki, bokufu)
2. How did Samurai honor fit the Japanese character and explain both the feudal chaos and centralized order?* 210-215

1. What about the geography Japan affected its national character? (Yamato)
2. Describe the differences between Shinto and Buddhist views. Why did they become distinctly Japanese religions?
3. What were the philosophical foundations of the Japanese state? (Shotoku, equal field system, bureaucracy) 208-210

Step two of the DBQ project due. DBQ question sheet, rationale, document analysis, bibliography.

work on DBQ project due 2/28/06
Tuesday

study for test on Chinese History Friday

Yellow, Yangtze
Ideographs
Oracle bones
Analects
Mandarins
Daoism
Book of Changes
Era of warring states
Shang, Zhou, Chin, Han, Tang

Mencius
Mahayana Buddhism
Silk monopoly
Vietnamese rice
Equal field system
Hung-wu
Forbidden City, Ming
Ricci
Zheng He, Maritime exp.
Manchus, Kang Hsi

1. To what degree was "Communist" China the product of Mao, Chinese History, international Communism or the circumstances of modernism?
2. How was Mao's policy centered around the interests of the peasant class? (collectivism, commune, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Red Guards)
3. Why did relations with the Soviets deteriorate? (Amur River, Sino-Soviet conflict)
4. What factors led to the deterioration of Communist ideology in China? (Tienanmen Square, pragmatists, socialist in spirit) 650-654

1. What were the failures of the Chiang administration during WWII?
2. Why did Mao succeed in taking China from the KMT? 595-6

1. What internal weakness and external factors contributed to the decline of the Manzhou? (Opium Wars, unequal treaties, Taiping Rebellion, self-strengthening, Cixi*, Boxer Rebellion)
2. What solutions to China's problems were offered by Sun, Chiang and Mao? (New China Movement, KMT, May 4th, CCP, Long March) 590-596

1. How did attitudes toward foreigners affect Chinese foreign policy? (barbarian, tribute, Maritime Expeditions, Ricci)
2. How did the Manzhou successfully rule China? (Kangxi, queue)
* 3. How did the novel and porcelain reflect Chinese values? (gentry) 358-363

1. What are some of the signs and reasons for the success of the Ming Dynasty? (Zhu, Yongle)
2. Why did China fail to develop an Industrial Revolution?
3. What strengths and weaknesses do you see in the governmental and social organizations of the Ming Emperors? (eunuchs, Forbidden City, bureaucracy, civil service exams) 354-358

Due tuesday is the question for your DBQ project, on a 3x5 card.

1. How did people of the Han dynasty work to improve conditions for China? (meritocracy, Grand Canal, merchants, Iron, harness, Toba, Great Wall)
2. Why did the Han, Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties fall? (Wei, wet rice, Mongols, Kubilai Khan)
3. What changes did the Tang and Song Dynasties bring? (equal field system, loyal aristocracy, Buddhism v. Neo-Confucians) 201-206

1. What legacy, positive and negative, did the leaders of the Qin and Han dynasties leave? (Shih Huang-di, Li Si)
2. Why was the Han dynasty a golden age? (Ssu-ma-Chien, Pan family) pages196-201

1. What geographic features helped to determine China's character?
2. What do archeological studies of early China indicate about its political organization and cultural developments? (writing, oracle bones)
3. How did China change between the Shang and the Zhou dynasty? (mandate of heaven, 54-58