HIST 111 Study Guide 1
Remember that you are responsible for the material in Chapters 1-6 of your textbook (V), and for Elliott, and the assigned chapters in the Boorstin books.
I. Map List
II. Quotes-- #Exam 1
III. Identify & Show the Significance.
You will have a choice of the following to identify and show the significance. You will probably have 12 from which you have to choose 8. Identification must include the when, where, what, who and how. Then you must demonstrate the significance or long-range impact of the person, idea, or event. You may be asked to compare and contrast two ideologies (i.e., Scholasticism vs. Humanism) as one identification.
| Post-modernism | Marxist Theory of History | Whig Theory of History | Nationalist Theory of History | Objectivist History |
| Lord Acton | Karl Marx | Dating Systems | Scholasticism | Humanism |
| Sprezzatura | Polymath | Librum Aevum | Quadrivium | Trivium |
| Magna Carta | Scutage | Geoffrey Chaucer | Bernard of Clairvaux | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Dante Aligheri | Clement VII | Cosimo the Elder (di Medici) | Vernacular Literature | condottieri |
| Medici Family | Fief & Vassal System | Niccolo Machiavelli | Neoplatonism | Leonardo Da Vinci |
| Pico della Mirandola | Henry VIII | School of Athens | Michelangelo | Massacio |
| Giorgio Vasari | Jan van Eyck | Elizabeth I | Catherine di Medici | Lorenzo the Magnificent |
| La Gioconda | Ferdinand & Isabella | Albrecht Durer | Northern Renaissance Art | Jan Hus |
| Three Field System | Desiderus Erasmus | Mary Rose | Leo X | Julius II |
| Nepotism | Simony | Indulgences | Hapsburgs | Council of Florence |
| Donation of Constantine | In Praise of Folly | The Courtier | Anabaptists | Henrician Reformation |
| Philip II | Council of Worms | Frederick of Saxony | Charles V | |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Radical Reformers | Schmalkaldic League | William Shakespeare | |
| Original Sin | David, 1501 | Madonna of the Magnificat | Battle of Anghiari | The Last Judgment |
| Savanorola | John Wycliff | A Mighty Fortress is Our God | Christopher Columbus | |
| Mesta | Thomas Malthus | Schleitheim Confession | Jan Matthys | |
| Savanarola | Bonfire of the Vanities | Geneva Bible | Apocrypha | Pseudepigrapha |
| Transubstantiation | Consubstantiation | Liturgy | Vulgate | Great Schism |
| Thomas Cranmer | Jesuits | Ignatius Loyola | Bartolome de las Casas | |
| John Calvin | John Knox | Dutch Reformed | Hugenots | Margueritte of Navarre |
| Francis I of France | Papal Line of Demarcation |
Listing & Quotes0
Plus -- Quadrivium (Geometry, Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy) & Trivium (Logic, Grammar, Rhetoric)
Describe the differences in at least four separate dating systems (time).
Essay
1. Explain the concept of the genius. What are the characteristics of genius? How does this differ in the West from elsewhere in the world? What types of genius are there? Demonstrate how at least four figures studied so far would qualify. What innovations did these individuals give to Western society? Use specific historical examples and illustrations, as well as good grammar.
2. Why is the period between 500 and 1350/ 1500 called the "Middle Ages"? Explain the origins of the term and the evaluate its validity. Use specific examples from the textbook and class lecture to demonstrate the achievements and the limitations of the Medieval World. Include technology, intellectual life, popular culture and military culture.
3. Compare and contrast the ideas of Luther, Erasmus, and at least two other reformers. How did they approach hierarchy, reform, established church, grace and the people? Why were they different and how did this affect their followers?
4. Discuss the geographic characteristics of the European landscape. How have these factors affected European development? How did contact with the New World alter some of these patterns?
5. Discuss the development of Imperial Spain, as presented by J.H. Elliott. What were the major factors in Spanish unification? Describe the primary characteristics, problems and policies of Spanish society.
6. Explain the origins and development of the concept of Renaissance. What made the Italian Renaissance different? Or was it? Why did it begin in Italy? Who were the leading figures and why?
7. Explain the function of the Catholic Church in the West prior to the Reformation. What had been its role and structure? What problems did it face? Why? What were some of the first efforts at reform and their results? Why did the Church split in the West in the 1500s?