Gerard Agostinello
1. What surprised you about the Aztec culture?
They paid high taxes. They offered up human sacrifices. Moctecusuma had a huge reign
over neighboring territories and was hated by them.Motecusuma demanded a great
number of neighbors sons
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The Making of the Modern World
SUNY at Oneonta
WHistory 120. Fall 2015
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 12.00 p.m.-12:50 p.m.
Schumacher Hall 203
Instructor: Miguel Len, Ph.D.
E-mail: [email protected]
Office and Hours: Netzer 233. Ext. 2013, Tues
World War I
Causes and Phases
World War I. Causes
Political
System of nation-states that had emerged
in Europe in the 19th century led not to
cooperation but to competition
Not all ethnic groups had achieved the goal
of nationhood
Rivalries over colonies
Colonialism
African Colonialism
Definition
The policy or practice of acquiring political
control over another country, occupying it with
settlers, and exploiting it economically.
African colonialism
Period of establishment
Period of active development
Per
The Inkas
State and Economic Organization
Inka State
Imperial
Pax Inka
Economic Organization
Divided in three parts: 1) State: secular arm of
government; 2) Sun: religion; 3) Communities:
subject populations.
Economic Organization(2)
Labor tax: assess
The Renaissance
Old and New Perspectives
Traditional Interpretation
Traditional interpretation of the
Renaissance dominated by Jacob
Burckhardts The Civilization of the
Renaissance in Italy in 1860.
In the early 1900s achieved a good
reputation.
Burckhard
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World War II Casualties
Source: Phil's World War II Pages
Country
Military
Civilian
Total
Soviet Union*
8,668,000
16,900,000
25,568,00
Japan
Modernity and Tradition
Modern Japan
Modern Japan-Basic Chronology
1853
Townsend Harris Treaty
1858
Fall of Tokugawa Shogunate
1868
Feudal titles abolished
1871
Meiji Constitution adopted
1890
Imperial Rescript
1890
Russo-Japanese War
1904-1905
Kore
The French Revolution:
Causes and
Consequences
Sources: Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt. Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity. The French Revolution.
Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University
Press, 2001; William J. Duiker and Jackson Spielvogel.
World Histor
The Enlightenment
Basic Features
Sources:
Duiker and Spielvogel, World History, Forth Edition
Euan Cameron. Early Modern Europe. An Oxford
History, 1999; Jonathan Israel, Radical
Enlightenment, 2001.
What is the Enlightenment?
A
movement of intellectuals
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Making of the Modern World
History 120
SUNY Oneonta Department of History
Summer Session I 2014
Instructor Information
Instructor: Ann Traitor
Email: [email protected]
Required Text
William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel. World History Volume
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Land Ho!: The Age of Exploration
Age of Exploration Portugal and Spain
I would imagine that you have studied various explorers throughout your
academic career. Some of you might have even heard these names before or studied
these people and their exploi
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Aztec brought to mexico because of a prophecy in which they would find an eagle
with a snake in its beak on a cactus on an island in a middle of a lake. They found
that place there capital known as Tenochtitlan (mexico city).
Very diffivcult to take
Jamie Sangesland
Renaissance Break away from middle ages, classical culture, and Greek and Roman Culture
Burckhardt- argued that the Renaissance was a radical break from medieval times.
He emphasized the emergence of a new type of political ruler, the si
Jamie Sangesland
10/5/10
Outline
Confucianism
Intro:
-Confucianism in China and Japan
-Background information on Confucian
-Confucian- Pioneer professional bureaucrat and political thinker
1st Body Paragraph:
-Ming Dynasty-period of recovery from natural
Making of the Modern World
Professor
9/27/10
Food. The word in itself brings a variety of thoughts and opinions depending on
the person, the time period, and what aspect people are looking at when it comes to
something that everyone enjoys. Over the cours
Dave Messina
Professor
10/2/10
Making of the Modern World
Throughout world history, there have been many factors that have shifted course
of events and changed history as we know it. Disease changed the middle ages, the
rise of dictators led to widespread
1. The Communist Manifesto
Feb 1848
Of all the documents of modern socialism, it is the most widely read and the most
influential. It is the systematic statement of the philosophy that has come to be
known as Marxism.
Aimed to explain the goals of Communi
Making of the Modern World EXAM 1
2. Although the primary objective for sailing around Africa was to find a sea route
to the Spice Islands, Europeans soon discovered that profits could be made in Africa
itself. Detail and discuss the main features of the
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has
simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great
hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other Bourg
WHY and HOW the Holocaust Occurred
by: Samantha Hollander
One definition of the Holocaust reads thus, The state sponsored, systematic persecution
and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and
1945 (Teaching Abou
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