Study Guide: Post Napoleonic Europe, Nationalism, and Imperialism Test

Test Date: Friday, March 12, 2010

Question Format: Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Essay

Talleyrand, Louis XVIII, Louis-Phillippe, Louis Napoleon/Napoleon III

Clemens von Metternich, Alexander I, Decembrists

Camilio di Cavour, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Victor Emmanuel

Otto von Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm I

Queen Victoria, Cecil Rhodes, Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone; Ronnie, The Turtans, Mrs. Moore, Professor Godbole, Dr. Aziz

Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison, Ivan Pavlov, Pierre and Marie Curie, Gregor Mendel

 

 

The settlements of Vienna – their basis and the theory behind them

Unification of Italy and Germany: Goals, methods, purpose

Nationalism: How defined, how used across Europe; Impact on the Vienna settlements and on the various revolutions; how it both built and destroyed countries

Imperialism: Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand; Methods preferred by the major players, how it worked, the advantages of the Europeans, Geopolitics, India and the Raj; Sepoy Revolt

Great Zimbabwe: Theories, prejudices, and the realities of how it was portrayed in Apartheid era South Africa

Age Set societies, oral tradition; the cultural and societal reasons that the Europeans were able to dominate Africa; Berlin Conference of 1888

Evolution, Social Darwinism and their implications for Humanity

The specific experiments/ proof of the theories performed by the reformers listed in the first table

Nineteenth Century Progress: impacts on both people and society

 

Understand the cultural, social, and material impact of Imperialism.

Understand the political, social and cultural basis for Imperialism.

                The major arguments both for and against.

Understand the Balance of Power

The Impact of the unifications and nationalism on that balance

The culture of Africa that the Europeans sought to update