Hist 151 Final Exam Review
Spring Semester 2013
There will be three sections to the exam. Section 1 will include a single question. This
question will definitely be on the exam, and it asks you to think through your understanding of
historical developments from the time periods and regions covered by the entire course.
Section II will include short answer essay questions taken from chapter review material and
lectures. Section III will be fill-in-the-blank questions about terms. Sections II and III will
concern only material from your textbook chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.
Section I: This question will be on the exam. The answer will be worth up to 15 points. It
will appear exactly as it does here. Please answer it to the best of your ability, keeping in mind
historical developments that we have covered from the beginning of human history to 1500 CE,
and across all regions of the Earth.
Question: Compare and contrast the development and spread of Buddhism and Christianity.
What political and social developments helped Buddhism and Christianity to gain popularity?
What aspects of Christianity and Buddhism made them appealing in contrast with pre-existing
religious beliefs?
Section II: 6 of these questions will appear on the exam, each worth 5 points for a total of
30 possible. Please answer in grammatically correct sentences, with a total of two to three
paragraphs. Be sure to support your answer with specific examples from history.
1. How did early peoples in the Americas adapt to their environment as they created
technologies of food production and economic systems?
2. What physical, social, and intellectual features characterized early societies in the
Americas?
3. How did Mesoamerican and North American peoples develop prosperous and stable
societies in the classical era?
4. How did the Aztecs both build on the achievements of earlier Mesoamerican cultures
and develop new traditions to create their large empire?
5. What were the sources of strength and prosperity, and of problems, for the Incas as they
created their enormous empire?
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6. What aspects of nomadic life gave the nomads of Central Asia military advantages over
nearby settled civilizations?
7. How did Chinggis Khan and his successors conquer much of Eurasia, and how did the
Mongol conquests change the regions affected?
8. How did the Mongol conquests facilitate the spread of ideas, religions, inventions, and
diseases?
9. What was the result of India's encounters with Turks, Mongols, and Islam?
10. How did states develop along the maritime trade routes of Southeast Asia and beyond?
11. What made possible the expansion of the Chinese economy, and what were the
outcomes of this economic growth?
12. How did the civil service examinations and the scholar-official class shape Chinese
society and culture, and what impact did the Mongol conquest have on them?
13. How did Korean society and culture develop in an age when its northern neighbors were
Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols?
14. How did the Heian form of government contribute to the cultural flowering of Japan in
the period?
15. What were the causes and consequences of military rule in Japan?
16. How did medieval rulers overcome internal divisions and external threats, and work to
create larger and more stable territories?
17. How did the Christian Church enhance its power and create new institutions and
religious practices?
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18. What were the motives, course, and consequences of the Crusades?
19. How did the lives of common people, nobles, and townspeople differ, and what new
commercial developments increased wealth?
20. What were the primary educational and cultural developments in medieval Europe?
21. Why have the later Middle Ages been seen as a time of calamity and crisis?
22. What were the major cultural developments of the Renaissance?
23. What were the key social hierarchies in Renaissance Europe, and how did these
hierarchies shape people's lives?
24. How did the nation-states of western Europe evolve in this period?
25. What were the central ideas of Protestant reformers, and why were they appealing to
various groups across Europe?
26. How did the Catholic Church respond to the new religious situation?
27. What were the causes and consequences of religious violence, including riots, wars, and
witch-hunts?
Section III: Terms. There will be 15 questions on the exam based on 15 of the terms below.
Each will be worth 1 point for a total of 15 points possible. All questions will be of the
fill-in-the-blanks type.
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Ch. 11
a. Maya
b. Incas
c. Mesoamerica
d. Moche
e. Quechua
f. Nahuatl
g. Olmecs
h. khipu
i. Mississippian
j. Mesoamerica
k. Mexica
l. Tenochtitlán
m. Popul Vuh
Ch. 14
a. chivalry
b. Gothic
c. reconquista
d. commercial revolution
e. vassal
f. feudalism
g. serf
h. Black Death
i. fief
j. Crusades
k. heresy
l. manorialism
m. craft guilds
n. troubadours
o. Scholastics
Ch. 12
a. khanates
b. nomads
c. Chinggis Khan
d. sati
e. jati
f. yurts
g. Sanskrit
h. protected people
i. tax-farming
j. Srivijaya
k. steppe
Ch. 15
a. Protestant Reformation
b. indulgence
c. Renaissance
d. patronage
e. predestination
f. humanism
g. politiques
h. Huguenots
i. Protestant
j. Jesuits
k. Christian humanists
l. Union of Utrecht
m. debate about women
n. Diet of Worms
Ch. 13
a. scholar-official class
b. Neo-Confucianism
c. Bushido
d. compass
e. Esoteric Buddhism
f. The Tale of Genji
g. Zen
h. movable type
i. cloistered government
j. examination system
k. foot binding
l. Shogun
m. dynastic cycle
n. concubine
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