STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM READINGS QUESTIONS

Fall 2007


    This is a list of potential terms and major points from the readings that were not covered in lecture, but that could be used for making up the questions on the exam based solely on the readings. For each of the terms and major points listed below for each reading, the best strategy is to write out the entire definition or summarize the major point from each section listed in a sentence or two, and then study this list just as you would study the lecture notes. Good luck!



GLOBAL STUDIES: THE MIDDLE EAST

“The Middle East: Theater of Conflict”

1. Alfred Thayer Mahan and the role of the Middle East


2. the “Great Game” in Central Asia


<>3.The Balfour Declaration


“The Middle East: Heartland of Islam”

<>1.Shari’a

2. The Mahdi


3.'Ashura

4. “Westoxication”


5. Hashishim

6. Madrasas

7. "cartoon crisis"


“Iran”

1. qanats


2. Azeri Turks


3. Kurds


4. Arabs in Iran


5. The Baluchi


6. Non-Islamic minorities


7. Zoroastrians


8. Bahais

9. the bazaar

10. The Shah-People Revolution


“Iraq”

1. Baghdad as a planned city


2. impacts of the Mongol invasion


3. Operation Anfal


4. The tragedy of the Kurds


5. the Marsh Arabs


“Israel”

1. the Samaritans


2. The Aliyah


3. the Druze


4. The Circassians


5. The Bedouins


6. kibbutzim


7. Moshavim


6. Law of Return


7. Kach


8. The Liberty


9. the Pollard affair


“Saudi Arabia”

1. The Empty Quarter


2. Wahhabism


3. The Ulema



Article 1: "Lifting the Veil"
1. the issue that arouses the most hostility in the Middle East toward the United States

2. the reason why most Arabs believe the U.S. attacked Iraq

Article 7: "Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East"
1. three exceptions to the Islamic rule of equality that are enshrined in the holy law

2. The equivalent of the French concept of freedom in the Muslim world

3. the impacts of modernization on the Muslim world

4. two reasons why Wahhabism has become so influential

Article 8: "Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq"
1. the principal reason for war stated by the Bush Administration

Article 10: "Iraq's Resilient Minority"
1. Kurds like to tell people that they are the largest nation in the world without this


The 9/11 Commission Report
Chapter 1: "We Have Some Planes"
1. FAA and NORAD mission and structure

2. FAA and NORAD protocols in place on 9/11

3. characteristics of the defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11

Chapter 2: "The Foundation of the New Terrorism"
1. bin Laden's statement about Americans and civilians in 1998

2. the role of worker emigration for Middle Eastern states

3. the Golden Chain

4. bin Laden's role in Sudan

Chapter 3: "Counterterrorism Evolves"
1. the significance of the 1992 World Trade Center truck bombing for the story of 9/11

2. President Reagan's response to the bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks

Chapter 12: "What to Do? A Global Strategy"
1. the society that produced 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers


MODERN CHINA

Chapter 1

1. Middleman minorities

2. snakeheads

3. role of altitude

4. ancestor worship

5. Confucianism

6. Daoism

7. Wittfogel’s hydraulic theory of oriental despotism


Chapter 2

8. barefoot doctors


Chapter 3

9. Four Modernizations campaign

10. Cadres

11. democratic centralism

12. latent functions of campaigns

13. models


Chapter 4

14. Bai-hua


Chapter 5

15. The ritual family

16. the residential family

17. the economic family

18. the family of affect

19. nuclear families

20. stem families

21. grand (extended) families

22. lineage

23. Clan

24. mutual responsibility system

25. mandarins


Chapter 6

26. didactic history


Chapter 7

27. one way to reduce social overhead cost

28. role of the Bamboo Wall


Chapter 8

29. how to deal with shortages of virtually all types of consumer goods in the 1950s



Chapter 9

30. unique features of rural development in modern China

31. what made China different from other socialist countries

32. the nonstate sector

33. the local corporatist hypothesis

34. contract responsibility system

35. “leaving the farm but not leaving the countryside”

36. factors that contributed to the system of limited inequality and stratification in rural China during Mao’s era


Chapter 10

37. two types of rural able person entrepreneurs

38. urban profiteer entrepreneur

39. urban sea of commerce entrepreneur

40. iron rice bowl


Chapter 11

41. China’s major educational problem



Barboza 2007 "Report Cites Brutal Conditions in Chinese Factories"
1. reasons why workers' rights groups say tained and defective products come from China


Kahn and Yardley 2007 "As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes"
1. China's leading cause of death

2. the political calculus of economic growth and pollution

3. China's leaders' argument about the role of the outside world in pollution in China