I. Identifications (20 points, 8 of the terms listed below will appear on the final exam)

Hung Wu	Aurangzeb	ouvidores	Sundanese
Janissaries	Treaty of Tordesillas	cash crop	Boxer Rebellion
Rajputs	encomienda	gente vil	Shaka Zulu
Ulema	Casa de Contratacion	Williams Thesis	PNI
Brahmins	Bartolome de Las Casas	enclosure	Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Sikhism	Captains Donatary	Treaty of Nanking	100 Flowers Movement
Worms

II. Essays:
General Instructions:: Remember, the main goals here are three in number: 1) make sure you identify and then utilize at least one of the primary sources we’ve covered in class in at least on of your essays (which means in your preparation identifying those sources that would be appropriate); 2) make certain that you develop an argument or overall point that you want to make for each of the three questions and 3) make sure that you support each of the points you make in the essay with some kind of evidence, whether from the primary source(s) you choose or from another source (like lecture or the textbook). When I grade the essays, I will be measuring performance based on the above three goals in addition to the particular requirements of each question.

A. Synthetic/Comparative Essay (40 points)
As some of you may know by now, one of the essays on the final examination will be on a topic of your choosing. The themes from which you have to choose are as follows: 1) social order 2) economic structure and 3) colonization/colonialism. Having chosen your theme, you need to prepare to write an essay by the date of the final examination that does the following things. First, it must be comparative, i.e. explore your chosen topic across different cultures. You must therefore choose three case-studies to discuss: one of the cultures must be from the 20th-century, one must be from the 18th/19th century and one from the 15th-17th centuries. I will allow you freedom to choose the case-studies with which you are most comfortable. Second, the essay must identify the major developments and/or events (which means not everything is of major importance!) for each society that pertain to your chosen topic. Third, the essay must clearly divide those developments and/or events that are common or similar in each era as regards to your topic from those things that are unique to each society as regards your topic. Fourth, the essay must present an original thesis that identifies an overall pattern of change for the developments and events you examine. Let us say, for example, that your topic was the role of intellectuals from 1400-1980. Well, a possible thesis here might run as follows: By 1400 it was common for more complex societies to depend on intellectuals for the running of their governments. Indeed, over time we see an increasing role for this type of person as the strength of societies came to depend less on physical and more on knowledge-based resources. Please be certain that each of the four requirements listed above is met as I don’t want to grade people down for not following directions!

B. Analytical/Interpretive Essay (40 points, I will choose one of the questions below)

1. After World War II China was able to free itself from foreign dominance. Moreover, China succeeded, as we have seen, in establishing a fairly durable social and economic structure. Nevertheless, there were particular challenges that China had to overcome, as I have noted in lecture and as Daughter of the River makes more than apparent. In a well-argued essay that uses supporting evidence, support or oppose the following statement: Post-war Chinese society is one of the few examples of a state that successfully decolonized. China freed itself from foreign influence; established a new economy and social structure; and created a political system that while perhaps not respectful of human rights as defined in Western societies, did provide more opportunities for the Chinese people than they had had before.
   
   
2. Comparing the fate of women in Western societies after World War II with that of women in non-Western societies, some have argued that the differences between women in these cultures were connected with economic development, not the way in which the men in these different societies think about women. That is to say, the concerns of women in the West could revolve around concerns for career advancement and self-fulfillment because the West was economically secure. In contrast, the concerns of women like Hong Ying had more to do with where the next meal was coming from since their societies were poor. Write and essay in which you evaluate this assertion using carefully constructed and well-supported arguments.
   
   
3. Western democratic nations often portray themselves as bastions of freedom and promoters of international welfare, a habit they got into in the course of the 19th century and one which was reinforced by the Cold War after World War II. Given what you know about post-World War II China, Guatemala and South Africa, write an essay in which you defend or oppose the following statement: Outside their own borders, the policies of Western liberal democracies were no more, but certainly no less repressive than those enacted by the Chinese state in the post-World War II era.

III. Conditions For Taking the Final Examination.
I have adopted the policy below for the final examination as an insurance policy for everyone. I want everyone to have the same chance as everyone else on the final examination.

1. You must use a blue-book provided by me.
2. You must bring nothing into the examination except something with which to write, preferably a pen. No book-bags, papers, notes etc.
3. To the extent possible you must sit every other seat on examination day.
4. Anyone not adhering to the above three conditions will not be allowed to sit the examination.
   

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