Name: ________________________________ HIST 2070 Reading Questions: Chapter 19, Source Reading Directions: Answer the following questions that pertain to chapter 19 and the Yangzhou Massacre source reading. Reading questions are due by 9:45a on Wednesday, September 16, 2015. Late submissions will not be accepted. Reading questions: 1. What were the sources of Spanish power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why was Spain unable to sustain its supremacy in Europe? 2. What were the strengths and weaknesses in the Ottoman and Safavid empires? What role did religion play in the Ottoman and Safavid empires? 3. Why were the Manchus able to conquer China? What significance did the Yangzhou massacre (source reading) play in this conquest? How did some people survive the massacre? What were some actions taken by Manchu soldiers? 4. How did the early Qing dynasty attempt to unite China? 5. In what ways did Japanese society change in the change in the seventeenth century? 6. How did slave communities in the Americas create autonomous institutions? 7. How did the slave trade affect African stated during this period? Name: HIST 2070: World History II Reading Questions: Chapter 22, Declaration of Independence, “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” Answer the below questions and submit them at the end of lecture on 9/28/15. Late submissions will not be accepted. 1. How was the Enlightenment global in its ideas and effects? 2. How did the Encyclopedia promote Enlightenment? Why have Adam Smith’s economic ideas been so influential? 3. How do ideas of the Enlightenment relate to the Declaration of Independence? 4. Although the speech by Frederick Douglas is after the Enlightenment, how does his speech relate to the Declaration of Independence (a document more closely related to the Enlightenment)? Name: HIST 2070: World History II Reading Questions: Chapter 27, Liang Qichao on His Trip to America Answer the below questions and submit them at the end of lecture on 11/4/15. Late submissions will not be accepted. Chapter 27 1. Liang QIchao was an influential thinker in China during the late Qing who had the opportunity to study abroad. In his discussion of his trip to America, what are some of his good and bad impressions of America? 2. How was Western science transformed in the twentieth century? 3. Why is twentieth-century art a mirror of twentieth-century science? .

1. Name: ________________________________
HIST 2070
Reading Questions: Chapter 19, Source Reading
Directions: Answer the following questions that pertain to
chapter 19 and the Yangzhou Massacre source reading. Reading
questions are due by 9:45a on Wednesday, September 16, 2015.
Late submissions will not be accepted.
Reading questions:
1. What were the sources of Spanish power in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries? Why was Spain unable to sustain its
supremacy in Europe?
2. What were the strengths and weaknesses in the Ottoman and
Safavid empires? What role did religion play in the Ottoman
and Safavid empires?
3. Why were the Manchus able to conquer China? What
significance did the Yangzhou massacre (source reading) play in
this conquest? How did some people survive the massacre?
What were some actions taken by Manchu soldiers?
4. How did the early Qing dynasty attempt to unite China?
5. In what ways did Japanese society change in the change in
the seventeenth century?
6. How did slave communities in the Americas create
autonomous institutions?
7. How did the slave trade affect African stated during this
period?
Name:

2. HIST 2070: World History II
Reading Questions: Chapter 22, Declaration of Independence,
“What to the Slave is the 4th of July”
Answer the below questions and submit them at the end of
lecture on 9/28/15. Late submissions will not be accepted.
1. How was the Enlightenment global in its ideas and effects?
2. How did the Encyclopedia promote Enlightenment? Why have
Adam Smith’s economic ideas been so influential?
3. How do ideas of the Enlightenment relate to the Declaration
of Independence?
4. Although the speech by Frederick Douglas is after the
Enlightenment, how does his speech relate to the Declaration of
Independence (a document more closely related to the
Enlightenment)?
Name:
HIST 2070: World History II
Reading Questions: Chapter 27, Liang Qichao on His Trip to
America
Answer the below questions and submit them at the end of
lecture on 11/4/15. Late submissions will not be accepted.
Chapter 27
1. Liang QIchao was an influential thinker in China during the
late Qing who had the opportunity to study abroad. In his
discussion of his trip to America, what are some of his good and
bad impressions of America?
2. How was Western science transformed in the twentieth
century?
3. Why is twentieth-century art a mirror of twentieth-century
science?