Global Connections and Comparisons

HIST 1110 Modern History II

Global Connections and Comparisons

Midterm Exam

Please type your responses in the document titled “HIST 1110 Midterm Exam Responses.”  This document can be found on the Syllabus page for Thursday, February 26.  Typed, printed responses must be turned in to McGuinn 121 by no later than 3:50 p.m. on Thursday, February 26.

Part I: Image Analysis [note: please refer to the Powerpoint titled “HIST 1110 Midterm Exam Images” to complete this part of the exam.  The Powerpoint is posted to the Syllabus page for Thursday, February 26]

Instructions: Contextualize and explain the relationship between the images on two of the slides.  Each response should be no more than three paragraphs.  This section of your exam should take up no more than four double-spaced pages.  Please refer to the Midterm Exam Overview for more detailed instructions.  15 points each/30 points total

Part II: Primary Source Document Analysis

Instructions: Identify and explain the significance of two of the primary source excerpts below.  Each response should be no more than a paragraph.  This section of your exam should take up no more than one and a half double-spaced pages.  Please refer to the Midterm Exam Overview for more detailed instructions.  15 points each/30 points total

Source 1: “It was not enough for Bonaparte to have saved the Egyptians from shameful and miserable oppression….He still needed to establish liberty among them.  He thus created in Egypt an Institute of Sciences and Arts, modeled after the National Institute.  …  Andreossi reads a memoir on making gunpowder in Egypt. Saltpeter is so abundant, it could be exported to France.  But sulphur is lacking; we can perhaps make enough lupin coal for our needs.  Anyways, Cairo is stocked with gunpowder….”

Source 2: “The sole goal of these agents is to persuade the creoles that His…Majesty wants only to liberate Spanish America…and secure free trade for the two Americas.  …  He will announce that the huge sums to be spent in Europe will then circulate in the provinces of America, increasing their resources, commerce, and prosperity; that their ports will be open to all nations.”

Source 3: “One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving, the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations….”

Source 4: “The distribution of all land is to be based on the number of persons in each family, regardless of sex.  All the land in the country is to be cultivated by the whole population together. If there is an insufficiency [of land] in this place, move some of the people to another place. …  The land is for all to till, the food for all to eat, the clothes for all to wear, and money for all to spend.”