Study guides sites:

• Ibn Battuta in Black Africa
• The Medieval Machine
• Behind Mud Walls
• Terms for Behind Mud Walls
• Mid-Term Study Questions
• Final Exam Study Questions

Additional sites and information:

• More information:includes models of traditionalism and modernization.
  
• Chronological Outline of China's Imperial Monarchy
• Bureaucratic Structure of China's Imperial Monarchy
• Latitude: How to Sail the World, a wonderful introduction to the Portuguese technological advances in the fifteenth century.
• Mill & Cam Technology: graphics
• World Geography Reading
• Civilizations, Organizing Production & Political Control

Terms sites:

• Terms:
• Terms Continued:

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  Syllabus forSummer 2001

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  Semester Outline: Topics & Reading Assignments:

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  Essays due
  The Essays on the Medieval Machine are due Friday, 1 June 01. Write on either question one or two from the study questions.
  
  The Study Questions for the Summer 2001 Final Exam
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  Final Exam: According to Timetable
  

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  Terms for History 101:

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  The Traditional World:

  

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  More information:

  Two Models of Traditionalism

  Redfield's nine characteristics

  1) small -- sometimes a matter of self-perception
  2) isolated -- may be a cultural matter, and a matter of self-perception.
  3) non-literate -- this helps with the self-perception of isolation.
  4) homogeneous -- they share the same attitudes, values, and norms.
  5) sense of group solidarity -- this follows from homogeneity.
  6) simple division of labor -- everyone does the same thing;
  7) simple technology -- primary tools only
  8) absence of market behavior
  9) folk behavior, which is subdivided as follows:
  

  a) spontaneous -- thought and action are united
  b) uncritical -- there is no habit of experiment
  c) personal -- all relations are primary-group relationships:
  [i.e., 1) intimate, 2) face-to-face, 3) permanent, and 4) holistic relationships. By contrast, in modern societies secondary-group relationships predominate; they are 1) casual, 2) impersonal, 3) temporary, and 4) specialized].
  

  
  
  

  Rostow's Model

  1) Structural ceiling on production
  

  a. Pre-Newtonian science,technology and attitudes towards the physical world
  b. Limited manufacturing and investment
  

  2) Lives are built around small, self-sufficient regions
  3) Long-run fatalism
  
  
  

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  MODERNIZATION MODEL

  Following is a brief outline of the characteristic features of the modernizing civilization.
  I. Sustained economic growth; i.e., achieves a state of expanding productivity, as measured per capita. It may be achieved by three means:
  

  a) technology
  b) organization
  c) motivation; more human work
  

  
  II. Critical view of the world: rationalism. This comprises:
  

  a) this-worldly as opposed to other-worldly spirit prevails
  b) the natural and human environment are view as rational and calculable
  c) learning and rational investigations are viewed as efficacious
  d) human progress is considered possible (opposite Golden Age myth)
  

  
  III.Superior, cohesive political organization: integrated state
  
  IV. Acceptance of work ethic: social ethic that comprises:
  

  a) work is good and right
  b) regimentation of life by the clock for production
  

  
  V. State control of education
  
  VI. Myth of upward mobility; i.e., one will get ahead if he/she only works hard
  
  VII.Secondary human relationships prevail; this comprises:
  

  a) casual
  b) impersonal
  c) temporary
  d) specialized
  

  
  

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  NOTE: Some scholars believe that democratic principles, at the least, the involvement of the masses in greater and greater amounts of decision-making, is an eighth aspect of modernization.
  

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  For additional information:
  e-mail: Dr. William J. Wright
  call or visit:

  History Department
  408e Brock Hall
  The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  615 McCallie Avenue
  Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
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  Last updated: 31 May (Do. n. Exaudi) 2001
  Comments to: Dr. William J. Wright

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