Notes

Social Studies Notes
2.2 Paths to Progress

Be able to identify the significance of the following themes:
Questioning Traditional Beliefs
people are no longer accepting things just because.
No longer willing to accept all things in life without asking questions or trying to change things.
Rising individual rights and equality

Reasoning
Secularism
Globalism
Be able identify evidence of each of the above themes in every unit listed below
TIP: Being able to connect these themes to different historical events will significantly improve your analysis in the essay portion of the exam

2.3 Golden Age of Islam
To prepare for the stimulus-based multiple choice questions, you are STRONGLY encouraged to review the primary source activity we did as a class in folder 2.3b. That worksheet is a good example of how, in order to succeed on the primary source portion of the exam, you need to be able to understand complex sources AND be able to interpret them in the context of the historical information we are studying.

2.4 The Italian Renaissance
Be sure you know the causes, effects, and significance of the following terms.


NOTE: being able to define these terms is NOT enough. You must be able to EXPLAIN what led up to the event, idea, or person, what was the impact of the event, idea, or person, and how it relates to the themes of progress.
Italian City States
Machiavelli
Printing Press
Humanism
Liberal Studies
Human-focused art
Artistic perspective
Dante’s Inferno
The vernacular











2.5 The Reformation
Be sure you know the causes, effects, and significance of the following terms.


NOTE: being able to define these terms is NOT enough. You must be able to EXPLAIN what led up to the event, idea, or person, what was the impact of the event, idea, or person, and how it relates to the themes of progress.
Martin Luther
95 Theses
Indulgences
Printing Press
Vernacular
Protestant/
Protestantism
The Peace of Augsburg
Diet/Edict of Worms
The English Reformation (Henry VIII and the Anglican Church)
Martin Luther’s anti-semitism






2.6 The Age of Exploration
Be sure you know the causes, effects, and significance of the following terms.


NOTE: being able to define these terms is NOT enough. You must be able to EXPLAIN what led up to the event, idea, or person, what was the impact of the event, idea, or person, and how it relates to the themes of progress.
Jared Diamond’s theory in Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Commercial Revolution
The Trans-atlantic slave trade
The Middle Passage
Gold, God, and Glory
Columbus
Mercantilism
The plantation system
The Columbian Exchange
The Triangle Trade
Joint Stock Companies




2.7 The Scientific Revolution
Be sure you know the causes, effects, and significance of the following terms.


NOTE: being able to define these terms is NOT enough. You must be able to EXPLAIN what led up to the event, idea, or person, what was the impact of the event, idea, or person, and how it relates to the themes of progress.
Geocentrism
Heliocentrism
Universal Law of Gravitation
Rationalism
Scientific Method
Inductive Reasoning
Copernicus
Galileo
Direct Observation
The telescope
Descartes





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