December+Exam+Review

December 2013 Exam Outline:
 * Please find links and materials in the Unit 1 and 2 pages. **

=Topics to Review:=

The connections between mother countries, colonies, and the slave trade.
 * 1. __Mercantilism/Protectionism__ –** //review key aspects/practices of these ideologies// (**[[file:humanities9ccb/Mercantilism,Colonialism.ppt|Mercantilism, Colonialism.ppt]]**)

Protectionism and colonialism.

How modern economics are shaped by events in Early Modern Europe.


 * 2.__Absolute Monarchism__**

Examples of absolute monarchs and their ways of living and governing, including Luis XIV and Marie Antoinette. Positive and negative aspects of absolute monarchies. Constitutional versus absolute monarchy. The ways in which reforms were made in Britain to reduce the power of the monarch to a constitutional monarchy- habeas corpus, cabinet and bill of rights.

__**3. The** **Reformation**__

The reasons for the Protestant reformation and the consequences of this, including the 30 Years War. Differences between ways of thinking of Protestant and Catholic leaders. Technological advances at the time which helped to spread ideas.


 * 4.** __**The Scientific Revolution and the 18th c. Enlightenment**__

Reasons for the change in philosophical thinking. How people changed their way of thinking about people and the world around them during this time. The importance of the Renaissance and Ancient Greece and Rome on scientists and thinkers during this time. Difference between the views of Hobbes and Locke.

__**5. Colombia**__

How any of the above have affected the way we live today in Colombia.