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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Make Up Date

If you have missed either exam one or two you must make arrangements to make up your exam on the following date.


Rome Campus:

I-123 Thurs, April 19 exam from 2-4

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Extra Credit Opportunities

You may do up to three of the following extra credit opportunities. Each is worth 5 pts. on either your second or third exam. In other words, you can earn up to 15 pts. total if you choose to take advantage of more than one extra credit opportunity. However, you can not earn more than 15 pts. if you participate in more than three extra credit assignments.
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#1: Visit the Rome Area History Museum located in downtown Rome on Broadstreet. The price is $3.00 for admission but a great source for local history, particularly the Civil War. For more information go to http://www.romehistorymuseum.com/index.html

**Assignment** Write a description of what you saw/learned. Make connections between themes covered in class (even with 1122 i.e. industrialization, revolution, etc.) and artifacts, photos, letters, displays, and exhibits. Turn in your ticket stub or receipt with your summary description. This is a good but smaller museum great for you an a friend.
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#2: Visit the Oak Hill museum and historic home located ajacent to Berry College on the by-pass (heading either toward or from Rome high school). It is a great source for local history, the history of education, and the other themes including the Gilded/Progressive era, Industrialization (there is a power loom exhibit), and Civil Rights (see the upstairs exhibit). Start at the museum and then go up the hill to tour the Berry home built in the 1880s. It has amazing furniture and artifacts.

The student rate is $3 with your GHC ID and hours are M-Sa, 10-5.

For more information go to: www.berry.edu/oakhill/

**Assignment** Write a description of what you saw/learned. Make connections between themes covered in class (even with 1122 i.e. industrialization, revolution, etc.) and artifacts, photos, letters, displays, and exhibits. Turn in your ticket stub or receipt with your summary description. This is a good but smaller museum great for you an a friend.

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#3: Visit the Customs and Culture exhibit at Fernbank Museum in Atlanta. For background, exhibits, time, and a description go to:

http://www.fernbank.edu/museum/exhibitions/permanent/roc/default.html

**Assignment** Write a description of what you saw/learned, points of interest in the exhibit, connections to class, and your TICKET STUB from the exhibit. Fernbank is a great museum with several exhibits fun for the family.

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#4: Visit the Louvre exhibits on display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Watch the trailer for the exhibit and get details at: http://www.louvreatlanta.org/en/home

**Assignment** Write a description of what you saw/learned, points of interest for the exhibit's history and artwork, connections to class, and your TICKET STUB from the exhibit. This is a great exhibit for you and a friend or spouse. The Louvre Museum is perhaps the most famous in the world, located in Paris, France. To view things only held by the Louvre in Atlanta is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

1121 Study Guide

Identifications

Religion in the Roman Empire (Early and Late)
Judaism (Origins, Beliefs)
Torah
Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes
Jewish Diaspora
Origins of Christianity
Jesus of Nazareth
Paul the Apostle
The Early Christian Church and the expansion of Christianity
Christianity (Beliefs)
Monks, Friars, and Priests
Monasteries and Convents
Ostrogoths, Huns, Visigoths, Lombards, and Franks (Germanic Kingdoms)
Byzantine Empire
Constantine
Justianian
The Great Schism and Iconoclasts
Islam (Origins and Beliefs)
Jerusalem (The Holy City)
Muslim Empire
Abbasids
Umayyads
Gupta Dynasty (India)
Hinduism (Origins and Beliefs)
Red Vedas
Moksha
Buddhism (Origins and Beliefs)
Confucianism (Origins and Principles)
Nirvana
Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path
Feudal System
Serfs, Peasants, and Poverty
Fiefdom
European Population Growth
Nobles, Knights, and Lords
Chivalry
Crusaders
First Crusade
Second Crusade
Third Crusade
Fourth Crusade
Saladin
Richard the Lion Heart
Venice and Commerce
Motives for Crusades
Impact of Crusades
Charlemagne's Empire
French Capetians
Spanish Inquistion
Heresy and Unorthodoxy
Francis of Assisi
John Wyclif
Joan of Arc
John Huss
St. Thomas of Aquinas
Gothic Architecture
Bourgeoisie
Venice
Amsterdam
Guilds
Working Women
Cities in Medieval Europe
Jewish Communities, Cities, and the Black Death
Bubonic Plague/Black Death
Sumptuary Laws
Gutenberg and the Printing Press
Causes of the End of the Middle Ages

Possible Discussion Questions:


Compare and contrast Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Consider origins, beliefs, sacred texts/sites, God(s), Path to Salvation, Culture, and Geographic/Demographic impact.

Compare and contrast Buddhism and Hinduism. Consider origins, beliefs, sacred texts/sites, God(s), Path to Salvation, Culture, and Geographic/Demographic impact.

Consider all five major world religions. What are the basic commonalities among them? What are the biggest differences? How has geography, human movement, and government shaped the world religiously?

Describe the motives, justifications, events, and outcomes (short and long) of the Crusades.

How did the Hundred Years War and the Bubonic Plague effect Europe? How did these events lead to the Renaissance?

Describe the political and economic structure of the Fuedal System.

Explain the complicated relationship between the power of the church and the power of the state.

How did Christianity develop and/or fracture in the Medieval Period? What implications did this have on western Europe and on the eastern half of the Roman Empire?

Analyze the development of commerce, capitalism, cities, and the impact these developments had on European urban culture?

Monday, March 12, 2007

1112 Study Guide

Identifications

Enlightenment
John Locke
Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Beccaria
Voltaire
Mary Wollstonecraft
Literacy in Europe
Alcohol, Crime, and Disease
Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution
Miguel Hidalgo, José María Morelos and Mexican Independence
Simón Bolivar
Reign of the Caudillo
Social Hierarchy in Latin America
Industrial changes in production, consumption
Industrial changes in economy, class (social mobility), and gender
Industrial changes in technology, power, and machines
Industrial changes in textile, iron, and coal production
Great Britain and the Industrial Revolution
Factory structure and life
Railroads and Steamships
Germany, France, Belgium, and the United States and the Industrial Revolution
Nature of the Proletariat and Class Struggle/ Socialist and Marxist Theory
Lack of Industrialization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa
Labor Organization and Union effectiveness in 19th century
Urbanization- leading cities, leading problems
Crime, Violence, Sexual Danger
Sanitation, Housing, and Public systems (status and changes made)
Female and Child labor, Changes in Family economy
U.S. Pre-Revolutionary Ideals and Events
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention and the Bill of Rights
War of 1812
Causes of the Civil War
Sectionalism and Legislative Compromises
Bleeding Kansas
American Civil War
Manifest Destiny
Mexican Revolution
Latin American Dependency
Black Codes
13, 14, 15th Amendments
Native American Wars
French Revolution (v. American Revolution)
The Three Estates (and the Estates General)
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Louis XVI and Marie Antionette
Peasants, Sans-Culottes, and the March on the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
The Great Fear
Robespierre, the guillotine, and the Reign of Terror
Napoleon and the end of the Revolution (1815)
Conservatism v. Liberalism
Nationalism and Characteristics of the Modern Nation
Unification of Italy and Germany
Ottoman Empire in Decline
The Capitulations
Reforms of Mahmud II (Tanzimat Reforms)
The Revolt and Reign of the Young Turks
Reform in Russia and Tsar Alexander II
The Witte System and Industrial Development in Russia
The Opium War in China
The Taiping Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion
Tokugawa Rule and the Meiji Restoration


Possible Discussion Questions

How did Enlightenment principles inspire social revolutions in Latin America?

Compare and contrast the revolutions in America, France, and Haiti.

Describe the phases and principles of the French Revolution. To what extent was it a success for the Third Estate?

How did the Industrial Revolution change notions of production, consumption, and technology?

How did the Industrial Revolution affect labor, class, and gender?

Analyze issues of power and dominance between industrialized Western nations (Ruler) and views of the "Other" (Ruled) during European imperialism. How was power utilized in different ways? Include examples of European countries and colonies in the Middle East, Far East, and South Asia.

Describe and explain changes in government/society that reflected class, power, and the modern nation state. How does the modern state evolve in the 19th century.

Describe developments and fractionalization in the 18th and 19th century Ottoman Empire?

How did the Russia, China, and Japan fit into European definitions of industrialization, expansion, and reform?

2111 Study Guide

Identifications

Articles of Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
Federalists v. Antifederalists
North v. South
Big States v. Small States
Bill of Rights
New government- The Cabinet
Alexander Hamilton and the Bank of the U.S.
James Madison
George Washington as President (and his ideas regarding government)-
Federalists
Democrat Republicans
John Adams’s presidency, Alien and Sedition Acts and KY, VA Resolutions
Election of 1800 and the Midnight Justices
Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review
Characteristics of Jeffersonian American (ideals versus realities)
Louisiana Purchase (and the Haitian Revolution/Napoleon)
Lewis and Clark Expedition
War of the Barbary Pirates
Impressment
War hawks
Causes, stakes, and outcomes of the War of 1812
Tecumseh
Battle of Ft. McHenry and the Star Spangled Banner
The Burning of Washington D.C.
Battle of New Orleans/Treaty of Ghent
Characteristics of Early Frontier Life
Squatters and Land Speculators
Early Immigrants
Henry Clay, The American System, and the National Road (Cumberland)
Transportation Revolution (Steamboats, Railroads, and new forms of power)
James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings
Monroe Doctrine
Judicial Nationalism (Marshall Court and relevant cases expanding federal power)
Strict v. Loose Construction
Industrial Revolution Part One (production, consumption, labor)
Age of Machines (technology, factory system, textiles, agriculture)
Wool to cotton- changes in Textile Production
Lowell Mills
Industry, Politics, and Labor conditions
New forms of communication
Renewed profitability of slavery
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Election of 1824- The Corrupt Bargain
Presidency of J.Q. Adams
Andrew Jackson- symbol of an age
Whole Hog for Jackson (1828) and Principles of Jacksonian America
Destruction of the Second Bank of the United States
Spoils System
Sequoya
Worchester v. Georgia, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Indian Removal and the Treaty of New Echota, Trail of Tears
Nullification Crisis and John C. Calhoun
Second American Party System (Democrats and Whigs)
Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrison and John Tyler
Second Great Awakening
Social, Moral Reform Movements
Charles Finney
Transcendentalists
Mormons
Utopian Communities
Dorothea Dix
Temperance Movement
Horace Mann
Lucretia Mott/Grimke Sisters
Seneca Falls Convention
Abolitionism (Garrison, Douglass, Tubman, Still)
Manifest Destiny

Possible Discussion Questions

1. Discuss the major issues and solutions of the Constitution Convention. What contradictions and issues of power remain apparent in the 1790s and early 1800s?

2. Compare and contrast Jeffersonian America and Jacksonian America. (Include ideological characteristics, federal v. state power, changes in the shape and direction of the nation, and the realities of life for Americans and Native Americans.)

3. What were the causes and the stakes of the War of 1812? What was the war's significance to American history and the course of the nation?

4. How did the Supreme Court from 1800-1830 help shape the direction of American domestic policy and political powers?

5. How did the Industrial Revolution change consumption, production, and social class in America 1790-1850?

6. Describe changes in demographics in the U.S. in the early 1800s. What were the characteristics of the frontier, eastern port cities, and reactions to these changes? What do these changes and reactionary developments reflect about the notion of American principles versus reality/practices?

7. Explain the plight of Native Americans from 1800-1840.

8. Describe reform and religious movements and developments from 1820-1850. In what ways were issues involved in reform and religion related? Also describe splinters movements and leaders involved.

9. Analyze urban life and urbanization. What was the relationship between urbanization and the Industrial Revolution? What changes were made during this period?

10. How did Andrew Jackson change American politics and presidential power? Describe him as a person and as a president. What were the contradictions of Andrew Jackson's ideals versus actions?

Friday, March 09, 2007

1121 Bubonic Plague


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