HIST 112 Week 1 review sheet

Answer the following questions (1 point each). Your textbook will be helpful.
You may either fill in this sheet, or list each answer next to its number and call the page
“Week 1 review sheet”.

The map questions are worth one point each. If you answered a map question on
the review sheet itself, your answer would read, “1. Map Letter A: The White House is
located in the city of Washington, D.C..” The same answer typed in a list would read, “1.
A; Washington, D.C.” Include your map answers with the answers to the other questions
on the review sheet or in a list.

Submit your assignment as directed under “Evaluation Procedures” in the

syllabus.

1. Emperor Kangxi, who reigned from the late 17th to the early 18th century, established a
strong, stable administration for China during the Qing Dynasty.

2. Members of the Catholic religious order known as Jesuits played influential roles in
China and in Tokugawa Japan, but they were ordered to leave Japan because of Japanese
concerns about religious conversion.

3. The political principle of Dyarchy involved dividing government positions between

the Manchus and the Chinese under the Qing Dynasty.

4. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who became shogun in 1603, founded the strongest shogunate in
Japan and emphasized central authority.

5. The Ronin, who were samurai who no longer served a particular master, were a
potential source of political instability in Tokugawa Japan.

6. Kabuki was the popular and violent form of theater in 17th-century Japan which
eventually became an established style of drama.

7. The leading Japanese poet, Basho, learned from nature about the meanings of life and
of existence.

8. The fifteenth-century alphabet for writing down spoken Korean was called Hangul.

9. The Polish scientist Nicholas Copernicus developed the theory that the sun was at the
center of the universe.

10. The philosophical movement known as Enlightenment emphasized reason, progress,

and natural law.
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11. Adam Smith’s theory called Laissez-faire was based on people pursuing their own
economic interests without interference from the government.

12. Rousseau, the author of The Social Contract, emphasized the general will of society
over the self-interest of an individual.

13. Catholic nuns, such as the prominent 17th-century Latin American author Sor Juana
Ines de la Cruz, followed careers other than marriage.

14. Catherin II, the powerful female ruler of Russia in the latter half of the 18th century,
favored the nobility over the peasants.

15. During the French Revolution, a document called The Declaration of the Rights of
Man and the Citizen called for freedom of speech, equal rights, and office-holding
based on talent.

16. Napoleon became a general during the French Revolution, developed the Civil Code
of laws for France, and ruled a large part of Europe before he was defeated at Waterloo.

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17. Map Letter B: The Qing Dynasty limited Chinese trade contacts with Western
countries to the port of Canton.

18. Map Letter A: The Tokugawa shogun was originally the daimyo of Edo (Tokyo).

19. Map Letter D: After defeating French forces at the Plains of Abraham near the city of
Mobtreal in 1759, Britain went on to gain French territory in Canada and east of the
Mississippi River.

20. Map Letter C: A slave revolt in Saint Domingue in 1791, following the example of
the French Revolution, eventually led to independence in 1804.