HIS 112
Key Terms to remember while reading the textbook
and studying a unit's material
 
 
Unit 1    Introduction
  • History
  • Civilization
Unit 2    Seventeenth-Century Europe
  • Parliament
  • Louis XIV
  • Old Regime (Ancien Regime)
  • Glorious Revolution
Unit 3    Persia, a Gunpowder Empire?
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Mughal Empire
  • Safavid Empire
  • Suleiman
  • Akbar
Unit 4    East Asia and Japan
  • Qing Dynasty
  • Tokugawa Shogunate
Unit 5    Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
  • Isaac Newton
  • Voltaire
  • Denis Diderot
  • Baron de Montesquieu
  • Declaration of Independence
Unit 6    Industrialization and Western Modernization
  • Karl Marx
  • Urbanization
  • Modernization
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Romanticism
Unit 7    Nineteenth-Century World
  • Manchu Dynasty
  • Opium Wars
  • Porfirio Diaz
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Imperialism
Unit 8    Russia
  • Lenin
  • Stalin
  • Bolsheviks
Unit 9    World War I
  • Erich Maria Remarque
  • Entente Cordiale
  • Count Alfred von Schlieffen
  • Bosnia
Unit 10    World War II
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Operation Barbarossa
  • Final Solution
Unit 11    Worldwide Modernization
Unit 12    Cold War
  • Yalta conference
  • Vietnam War
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Containment
  • Cuban missile crisis
Unit 13    Decolonization and Nation-Building
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Arab-Israeli Conflict
  • Apartheid
  • United Nations
Unit 14    South Asian Independence
  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
Unit 15    Final Exam
  • History
  • Civilization
  • Progress

 

 

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