Concisely answer the following questions about the historical discipline:
What are primary sources? Secondary sources? Give an example of each.
What are the fundamentals of historical analysis?
What are the four historical questions?
Describe the following historical categories: political, economic, social, and
cultural.
Why are the concepts of time and place so important to historians?
Answer the following Short Essay questions (at least 275 words each). Throughout, address how we know with examples from as many sources primary, secondary, text, and lecture as you can. Cite them parenthetically. SYNTHESIZE! Pay particular attention to time and place.
What was the Atlantic Slave Trade? Why did it happen? Why do we care?
What was the Enlightenment? Why did it occur? How do we know?
What were the Atlantic Revolutions? Why did they happen? Why do we care?
Answer the following Long Essay question (at least 500 words). To receive full credit, you must:
1) Organizeyourresponsewithathesis,body,andaconclusion.
2) Synthesizeinformationfromyourtext,secondarysources,primarysources,
and class lectures.
3) Notetimeandplacewhenemployingevidence.
4) AddresswhatscholarsmeanbythewordEurocentrism.
5) Identifywhichhistoricalevents(ColumbianExchange,AtlanticSlaveTrade,
Enlightenment, and Atlantic Revolutions) that you believe to have been the least and most European-influenced. Explain why.
In an editorial to the Gulf Daily News (2009), Samuel Thomas claimed that many Bahrainis equated Eurocentrism with a progressive and modern lifestylesomething that originated in Europe following the medieval era. Such assumptions have often overlapped with the notion that World History since the 18th century is essentially a story of European power and culture.
Considering the subjects that we have covered so far (Columbian Exchange, Atlantic Slave Trade, Enlightenment, and Atlantic Revolutions), do you agree? Why or why not?
