HIST 111 Study Guide 3  Honors

Remember that you are responsible for the material in Chapters 16 -

I. Map List

II. Quotes--  List for Exam #3

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.

Joint-Stock Company Dutch Revolt Stadtholder Mare Liberum
The Crisis Theory Peace of Westphalia Defenestration of Prague Gunpowder Plot
Long Parliament Thomas Hobbes John Locke Oliver Cromwell
Barebones Parliament Restoration Jacobites Bill of Rights
South Sea Bubble Bank of England Revolutionary Settlement Robert Walpole
Whigs Honorable Opposition Political Parties in England Gallican Liberties
Edict of Nantes Edict of Fountainebleu Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal Mazarin
The Frondes Louis XIV Alexander Dumas Hôtel des Invalides
Versailles Rene Descartes Francis Bacon Scientific Method
Voltaire Baron de Montesquieu Mary Wollstonecraft The Woman Question
Immanuel Kant Jean-Jacques Rousseau Elizabeth Montagu Mary Astell
Corvee Taille Venality Paulette
War of Spanish Succession William III Second Hundred Years War Great Awakening
Wesley Brothers Johann Sebastian Bach Wolfgang Mozart William Hogarth
William Wilberforce Cesare Beccaria Maria Theresa of Austria Catherine the Great
Peter the Great Foundling hospitals George Washington Edmund Burke
The Three Estates Abbe Sieyes Noblesse Oblige Sans-cullottes
Bourgeoisie Louis XVI Charles I Parliament
Parlement Gabelle Frederick the Great Franz Joseph II
Partition of Poland   National Debt The Three Estates

Listing

See List #2. Plus

  1. Quadrivium (Geometry,  Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy) & Trivium (Logic, Grammar, Rhetoric) vs.  Locke's suggested curriculum
  2. Phases of the Thirty Years War
  3. Tudor & Stuart Monarchs in order (Henry VII to Anne)
  4. Newton's Three Laws of Motion
  5. Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion
  6. Name four thinkers of the Scientific Revolution
  7. 4 Elements & 3 Principles (Paracelsus)
  8. Three Characteristics/ Contradictions of the 18th century
  9. Name the three paths to reform in the 18th century
  10. List the six characteristics of politics in the 18th century
  11. List three reforms of the 18th century.

Essay

1.  Discuss the concept of the 17th Century Crisis.  Who originated the theory and what authors contributed to it?  Discuss how it is manifested in at least 2 major ways and three minor ones.

2.  Compare and Contrast the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on the forms of government. What were their major works? What forms of government did each advocate and why? What events in English history helped shape their views and why?

3. Discuss the revolution in Scientific thought during the Early Modern Period. What was the old view of the universe? How did it change? Who were the major thinkers involved? What were their contributions?

4. Compare and contrast the three government systems that arose in the sixteenth century. What values and ideas were stressed in the Netherlands? Why? What kind of government developed in England? How did these contrast with the government of France? How was the French system justified? What methods did Louis XIV use to develop royal authority?

5. Discuss the causes and the progress of the Thirty Years War. How did it begin? What were the three phases of the war? Who participated in the war and why? How did the war end? How did it affect Europe?

6.  Discuss the development of absolutism in France. What phases were there in the development of absolutism? What were the major challenges faces the monarch? Who was involved in solving them? How were they solved? What was the role of Louis XIV?

7. Discuss the structure of French society before 1789. What were some of the problems? What changes did different groups want? What entertainments were there? How did each group express discontent?

8. What attitudes characterized the era of the Enlightenment? Who was involved the Enlightenment? How did this affect music? Religion? Ideas about politics? Education?  Society? Women? Give specific examples of people and works.   

9.  Discuss the characteristics and contradictions of the 18th century in both politics and society.  What were the major issues and changes?  What were the primary characteristics and problems in the political realm?  Who were the major agents of change?

10. Discuss the development of Constitutionalism in England.  What were the three major stages in the 17th century?  What were the catalysts for change?  What were the final results for England?  How successful was the settlement?