Updated: October 4, 2000
Copyright Stephen Ross Levitt and Liberal Arts Department
Students must answer 2 short questions from the list provided below.
1. Define democracy and to what extent was Athens a democracy.
2. How did Sparta and Athens differ?
3. Discuss the rise of Christianity and what historians know about Jesus.
4. Describe the differences between the Plebeians, slaves, and Patricians in Rome.
5. Why did Rome fall?
6. Discuss the reforms Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Why was land reform needed ? What did Tiberius Gracchus hope to achieve through these reforms?
7. Discuss the use of assasination in Republican Rome.
8. What were the accomplishments of Charlemagne?
9. Describe the system called feudalism.
10. Describe how people lived in the Middle Ages. Students will
want to note the different living standards of nobles, peasants,
and clergy.
(ie. Food, accommodation, education, life expectancy, work,
recreation)
10. Why did historians of the 19th and early 20th centuries label the period of time from the fall of Rome to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800, the Dark Ages? [ Note: additional choices will be added]
Answer 2 of the following short questions.
1. What motivated knights to participate in the Crusades? What changes happened in Europe while the fighting class was off "liberating" Jerusalem?
2. What happened in the "Renaissance"? Why do we label the events which occurred in the 14th and 15th century the "Renaissance"?
3. Discuss art in the Renaissance. Who were the major artists? What works did they produce? How did art of this period differ from art of other periods.
4. Discuss the movie, The Mission. What was the moral choice that confronted the Jesuit priests? Why did the Church not protect the Missions?
5. How did Europeans deal with the "natives" in the New World?
6. What were the accomplishments of Elizabeth the First?
7. Discuss the relations and "relationship" between Elizabeth the First and her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.
8. Was it really so splendid to live during the period of Louis the XIVth?
9. What were the complaints which Luther lodged against the Catholic Church?
10. Discuss the rise of Protestantism in Northern Europe. Students may wish to consider:
a. What was the attraction of this new religion for monarchs in Northern Europe?
b. How did Protestant beliefs differ from Catholic?
c. Can one account for the rise of Protestantism in economic terms?
11. In relation to the Americas, discuss the ways in which Spanish and Portuguese colonization differed from British.
12. Discuss the Black Death which struck Europe in the 14th century.
13. Discuss the Reconquista of Spain. Students might wish to consider:
a. the history of Islamic influence in Spain
b. the role of Ferdinand and Isabella in uniting Spain
c. the Inquisition and the expulsion of Jews and Moslems
d. the influence that the "Reconquista" was to have on later
Spanish history particularly as that relates to colonization of
the Americas
14. Discuss the Norman Conquest of Britain.
Identify and give the Significance of (5) of the Following:
a. The Tennis Court Oath
b. The Steam Engine
c. Louis the XIVth
d. Elizabeth I
e. Declaration of the Rights of Man
f. The Huguenots
g. The American Revolution
h. The Reign of Terror
i. Napoleon's decision to attack Russia
j. Spread of Industrialization
k. The Irish Potato Famine
l. Child Labor during the Industrial Revolution
1. What were the benefits of the industrial revolution and what were the terrible costs?
2. Describe the horrors of the First World War as recounted in the book, movie, All Quiet on the Western Front?
3. To what extent were the promises of liberty, fraternity, equality, realized in France during and after the French Revolution?
4. What were the causes of the French Revolution?
5. Describe the career of Napoleon, his triumphs and his defeats.
6. In what ways are the American and French Revolutions "related"?
7. How did the American, French and Russian Revolutions differ?
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