GINS 1000 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Qing Dynasty, Ottoman Empire, Imperialism
12 Oct 2018
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GINS 1000
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Gins 1000 A
Framing the discussion:
Why study history?
~prepare to live in the world
~attaining global cultural literacy
~celebrates the differences
~evolution
~to learn from the past mistakes
~decreasing discrimination
~change the future, we have to know the past
~identity
~preserve culture, traditions, routines, etc
~compare and understand
~understand institutions
~getting back to our roots
~trends and understand relationships between cultures and countries
~cultures to live on
~to become more compassionate and empathetic
~warn off ignorance
~emend own biases
~policies/ laws
~different points of views
~we are continuing history therefore we will one day be the past
~understanding the foundations
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~ history is how we make sense of the past; evidence based
Global vs international
Global:
• transcends the nation-state, borders, and nationalisms (deterritorialized)
• The global imaginary (Manfred Steger)
• Looks at processes, networks
• Importance of globalization as a historical process
International:
• predicated on the existence of nation states, their agents and institutions
• Argues for the existence of an international system
• Argues that the nation state remains an imp unit of analysis in historical scholarship and
in current event
• Make space for critic and challenges
Theoretical frameworks for the course:
1. Identity& Community
2. Authority& Resistance
3. Networks& Exchange
*BCE/CE = common era*
Rihla by Ibn Battuta
Marco polo:
The world(s) the mongols made:
Mongol empire (1206- 1368)
• Temujin – khan (1206)
• Organized mobility (nomads)
• Large land empire ever: sacks zhongdu (bejing 1206), khwarezmia massacres (1218-
1221)
• Chinggis exchange and pax mongolica
• What he really wants to take is the silk route
• If you control the route of trade; you set up tracking and tax points etc
• In less the 80 years, created an empire from pacific to the other side
• Mongols couldn’t take over Japon because they were only good at killing on land
• Mongol horde stretched to Great Britain; where the Roman empire started
• Four khanates (post – 1294)
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Document Summary
~change the future, we have to know the past. ~trends and understand relationships between cultures and countries. ~we are continuing history therefore we will one day be the past. ~ history is how we make sense of the past; evidence based. Global: transcends the nation-state, borders, and nationalisms (deterritorialized: the global imaginary (manfred steger, looks at processes, networks. Theoretical frameworks for the course: identity& community, authority& resistance, networks& exchange. Mongol empire (1206- 1368: temujin khan (1206, organized mobility (nomads, large land empire ever: sacks zhongdu (bejing 1206), khwarezmia massacres (1218- In less the 80 years, created an empire from pacific to the other side. Yuan dynasty (1271-1368: ruled by mongols (incl. Ming dynasty (1368-1644: not mongols- ethnic han, zheng he"s treasure fleets, loss of mandate of heaven. Qing dynasty (1644-1912: manchu leaders influenced by ethnocultural/historical ties to mongols. Southern empires: aztec (1428-1521) ~ mexica/nahua, capital tenochtitlan (mexico)
