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HIST 152 - KNOWLEDGE SURVEY - PROFESSOR SMITH - FALL '08
This is a Knowledge Survey rather than a "test." There are no right or wrong answers. While you will not be graded on this survey, please be very candid in your responses!

By completing this survey, both at the beginning and at the end of the semester, your instructor will be able to gauge your initial level of knowledge and then measure the amount of knowledge you gain during the semester. This information will help your instructor modify and improve the course.

Read each statement carefully and then choose a response based on the following instructions:

Mark A as your response to the item if you are not confident in your skills in the area and do not feel you can adequately demonstrate these skills on a test/essay/research paper.

Mark B as your response to the item if you feel somewhat confident that you are reasonably skilled in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a reasonable level on a test/essay/research paper.

Mark C as your response to the item if you feel very confident that you are highly skilled in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a high level on a test/essay/research paper.


Which class are you in:
T R 1:00 PM T R 2:30 PM

Is this Survey being conducted at the BEGINNING or at the END of the Semester?
Beginning of Semester End of Semester


CONFIDENCE IN HISTORICAL TERMS/CONCEPTS -

YOUR ABILITY TO DEFINE, DESCRIBE, CITE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOLLOWING:


Your skill level in area:

A: Low B: Modest C: High
Reconquista
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Christopher Columbus
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Magellan Expedition
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Conquistadors
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Colombian Exchange
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Native American Holocaust
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Ottoman Empire
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Safavid Empire
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Mughal Empire
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Zheng He
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Daimyo
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Tokugawa Shogunate
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Sakoku - closed country policy
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Absolutism
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Glorious Revolution
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Constitutionalism
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Scientific Revolution
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Enlightenment
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Salutary neglect
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Declaration of Independence
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American Bill of Rights
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Estates General
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National Assembly
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Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
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Jacobins
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Classical liberalism
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Socialism
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Nationalism
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Industrial Revolution
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Mass Production
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Marxist-socialism
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New Imperialism
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Crimean War
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Extraterritoriality
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Opium War
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Treaty of Nanking
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Meiji Restoration
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Effective Occupation
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American Civil War
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Manifest Destiny
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Simon Bolivar
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Neocolonialism
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Western Front
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Trench warfare
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Total War
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Bolshevik Revolution
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League of Nations
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Treaty of Versailles
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Age of Anxiety
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The Great Depression
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Joseph Stalin
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Five-Year Plans
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Benito Mussolini
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Fascism
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Adolf Hitler
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Nazi Party
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Appeasement
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Vichy France
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Pearl Harbor
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Hiroshima
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Holocaust
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Cold War
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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United Nations
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Containment
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NATO/Warsaw Pact
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Mutually Assured Destruction
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Proxy wars
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Third World
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Globalization
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CONFIDENCE IN HISTORICAL ESSAY WRITING

FOR THE FOLLOWING POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS, rate your confidence in being able to address the main points in a clear, concise, and organized essay answer of 1 1/2 - 2 pages.

A: Low B: Modest C: High

Discuss the effects of European expansion on the Americas and Africa.

Explain the decisions made, and the impact of these decisions, not to participate in global expansion made by Islamic empires, China and Japan.

Compare and contrast the European political systems of absolutism and constitutionalism.

Describe the intellectual changes taking place during the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, and discuss their significant effects.

Evaluate the causes, events, and consequences of the Age of Revolution in political, social, and economic terms.

Describe the factors leading to the Industrial Revolution and the significant impacts resulting from this.

Explain the relationship between the industrialized world and the non-industrial world as demonstrated by the cases of India, Africa, China and Japan.

Compare the political and economic experiences of Latin American and the United States in the nineteenth century.

Explain the meaning and impact of the concepts of liberalism, socialism and nationalism

Describe what factors led to World War I and why this conflict had so many dramatic effects.

Describe the many factors that made the 1920's and 1930's an "Age of Anxiety".

Describe the Stalinist Revolution, be able to describe Stalin's strategy for achieving rapid industrialization.

Define the core beliefs of Fascism and trace its growth in Europe and other regions.

Describe the factors contributing to the outbreak of World War II and major effects on civilians.

Assess the causes of the Cold War, and describe the political and environmental consequences for Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the two superpowers.

Describe the challenges of nation building, be able to compare the problems and the nation-building strategies of particular developing countries.

GLOBAL/MULTICULTURAL SKILLS

IN THIS FINAL SECTION, rate your confidence in being able to effectively accomplish the following less specific, more global history related assignments:

A: Low B: Modest C: High

Describe and define the world's major historical events, ideas, places, people, and other items of historical importance.

Summarize key ideas in history, including major world philosophies, religions. and political theories and systems.

Demonstrate an ability to compare and contrast historical experiences across cultures and time.

Demonstrate understanding of the historical roots of current world events.

Demonstrate an ability to analyze cause and effect relationships in history.

Mahalo for completing the HIST 152 Knowledge Survey!