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History 101 Help to Study for the Final.

 

A.       Your Final has one essay worth 25% on either the Renaissance or the Reformation.

B.      There are 75 Multiple Choice questions drawn from Chapters 1 through 12 in the Hunt text.

 

The outline below should be useful in reviewing for the multiple choice questions.

 

Pre-History

                Evolution of Humanity

                Paleolithic (2,000,000 – 10,000 BCE

                                Hunting and gathering way of life

                                Homo neanderthalensis (to 40,000 BCE)

Homo sapiens sapiens (200,000 BCE developed in Africa)

Cro-Magnon Man 30,000 BCE

Cave Paintings

Burial practices

Neolithic

                Agriculture began in Middle East (Iran) about 10,000 BCE

                Village societies may grow to towns.

                Jericho may have had 5000 people

Ancient Civilization are based on irrigation agriculture and formation of city-states (10 characteristics)

                Mesopotamia—land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, modern Iraq

                                Sumerians

                                                City-states

                                                Theocracies

                                                Ziggurat

                                                Epic of Gilgamesh

                                                Ur, Lagash, Uruk

                                Akkad

                                                Sargon I, the first Empire Builder

                                Babylon

                                                Hammurabi

                                                Law Code of Hammurabi

                                Kassites

                                Assyrians

                                Neo-Babylonian

                Egypt is the gift of the Nile and has natural frontiers

                                Old Kingdom

                                Middle Kingdom

                                Hyksos Invasion

                                New Kingdom

                Hebrews

                                Monotheism

                Minoans

                Myceneans

Classical Civilization

                Persians

                Greeks

                                Multiple City-States

                                The Garrison State of Sparta

                                Direct Democracy in Athens

                                Persian Wars

                                Peloponnesian War

                                Pericles

                                Socrates

                                Plato

                                Aristotle

                Hellenistic Civilization

                                Alexander the Great

                                Epicureanism

                                Stoicism

                                Neoplatonism

                Romans

                                Early Republic

                                Patricians and Plebeans

                                Consuls, Tribunes

                                First and Second Triumvirates

                                Augustus

                                Principate

                                Rise of Christianity

                                Third Century Decline

                                Autocracy

                                                Diocleatian

                                                Tretrarchy

                                                Constantine

                                                Edict of Milan

                                                Arian Christianity and the Council of Nicea

                                                Battle of Adrianople

                                                Theodosius

                Split of Roman Empire into Western and Eastern Empire after 395 CE

                Germanic Invasions of Western Empire

                                Visigoths in Spain

                                Ostrogoths in Italy

                                Franks in Gaul

                                Angles, Saxons, Jutes in England

                                Burgundians

                                Vandals in Spain                              

Middle Ages (500 – 1500 CE)

                Three Successor States

                                Byzantium

                                Islamic

                                Frankish

                Frankish Kingdom

                                Merovingian

                                Carolingian

                                                Treaty of Verdun 843

                9th Century Invasions

                                Norsemen

                                Magyars

                                Muslims

                Feudalism and Manorialism

                Formation of the Holy Roman Empire

                                Conrad the Franconian

                                Henry I (the Fowler), Duke of Saxony

                                Otto I

                                                Magyars

                                                Battle of Lechfeld

Crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome

Henry III

King Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII

Investiture Struggle

Concordat of Worms (1122)

                Formation of the Kingdom of France

                                Ending of the Carolingian Dynasty

                                Capetian Dynasty

                                                Hugh Capet

                                                Phillip (II) Augustus

                                                St. Louis (Louis IX) and the Albigensian Crusade

                                                Phillip IV (the Fair), Edward I of England, and Pope Boniface VIII

                                Valois Dynasty

                                Hundred Year War

                                                Battle of Crecy

                                                Battle of Agincourt

                                                Joan of Arc

                                                Dauphin

                                                Charles VII of France

                Formation of the Kingdom of England

                                Norman Conquest (1066)

                                William the Conqueror

                                Doomsday Book

                                Bayeux Tapestries

                                Plantagenet

                                Henry II

                                Eleanor of Aquitaine

                                Common Law

                                Richard the Lionhearted

                                King John and the Magna Charta

                                Simon de Montfort and origins of Parliament

                                Model Parliament 1295

                Formation of the Papal Monarchy

                                The Church under Feudalism

                                Cluniac Reform Movement preaches an

                                                End Simony

                                                End Lay Investiture

                                Emperor Henry III appoints Pope Leo IV

                                Creation of the College of Cardinals

                                Gregory VII and the Investiture Struggle

                                Victory over the Holy Roman Empire

                                Urban II preaching the First Crusade

                                The First Crusade conquers Jerusalem (1099)

                                Pope Innocent III

                                Lateran Council IV

                                Boniface VIII

                                Conflict with the Kings of France and England

                Culture of the High Middle Ages

                                From the Romanesque to the Gothic

                                Learning from Islam

                                                Arabic Numbers

                                                The Number Zero

                                                Algebra

                                                Philosophy and Medicine

                                Scholasticism

                                                Rediscovering the Logical works of Aristotle

                                                Albertus Magnus

                                                Peter Abelard

                                                Thomas Aquinas

                                Rise of the Universities

                                                Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Bologna, Prague, Heidelberg

                                                Theology at Paris

                                                Law at Bologna

                                Vernacular Literature

                                                Dante Alighieri”s Divine Comedy

                                                Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

                Decline of the Middle Ages

                                The Black Death 1347 -1352

                                The Avignon Papacy

                                The Hundred Years War between France and England

                                Civil War in England (The War of the Roses)

                                Henry VII Tudor of England (1485)

                Italian Renaissance (1350 – 1600)

                                The Rise of Independent City-States in Northern Italy

                                Republic of Venice

                                Republic of Florence (Medici family)

                                Principality of Milan (Visconti and Sforza families)

                                Growing Class Divisions:  Popolo Grosso and Popolo Minuto

                                Strong men: condottieri

                                Individualism

                                This-worldly rather than other-worldly

                                Growing secularism

                                Humanism

                                Petrarch

                                The Middle Ages is viewed as a Dark Age

                                Glorification of Rome and all things classical

                                Return to Classical Latin.  Medieval or Church Latin is viewed as a corruption

                                Further growth of vernacular languages
                                                Boccaccio’s Decameron

                                                Petrarch’s Poems to Laura

 

                                Developments in Art of

Perspective, Oil Based Paint, Realism

                                Giotto begins Renaissance art

                                Leonardo da Vinci

                                Michelangelo

                                Raphael

                                Nicolo Machiavelli’s The Prince

                Northern Renaissance

                                Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1516)

                                Erasmus of Rotterdam, In Praise of Folly (1509)

                                Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1593) developed the essay.

                                William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1601)

 

                Voyages of Discovery

                                Re-conquest of the Iberian Peninsula from Muslims

                                Kingdom of Portugal

                                                Prince Henry the Navigator

                                Unification of Spain under Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon

                                Conquest of Granada

                                Christopher Columbus of Genoa discovers America (1492)

                                Hernando Cortes (1485 – 1547) conquers Aztec Empire of Mexico

                                Francisco Pisarro (1475 -1541) conquers Inca Empire of Peru

                Reformation

                                Martin Luther

Posted 95 Theses opposing the sale of indulgences on the Cathedral Door at the University of Wittenberg, Saxony, Germany

Justification by Faith

The Bible as the sole authority for the Christian religion

Emperor Charles V

Frederick the Wise, Elector and Duke of Saxony

Diet of Worms

Luther is condemned as a heretic, placed under the Interdict of the Empire, but hides out successfully at the Wartburg, where he translates the Bible into German.

Peasant’s War 1525

John Calvin

Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)

Predestination

Theocracy in Geneva

French Huguenots

St. Bartholomew’s Day August 24, 1572

                                Anglicanism

Henry VIII established Anglican Church when Pope would not give him annulment from his wife .

Act of Supremacy 1529

Edward VI

Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary)

Elizabeth I

Book of Common Prayer

Anabaptists

Catholic Counter Reformation

                Pope Paul III

                Council of Trent

                Ignatius Loyola founds Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

                Baroque style in art

                Wars of Religion

                Thirty Years War (1618 – 1648)

                The Rise of Muscovy

                                Tax Collectors for the Mongols

                                The Third Rome—Moscow

                                The Russian Orthodox Church

                                Russian Tsars or Czars

                                Ivan III

                                Ivan IV the Terrible

                Ottoman Empire

                                Fall of Byzantium in 1453