HIS 101: History of Western Civilization I Final Exam Study Guide

These flashcards cover the structure, identification terms, chronological events, and essay topics for the HIS 101 Final Exam covering Modules 5 through 7.

Final Exam Overview

The exam covers material from Modules 5-7 only, consists of three sections for 100 total points, and has a two-hour time limit.

Section I: Identification

A section worth 40 points where students define and state the significance of four terms in paragraphs of at least five sentences.

Identification Definition Requirements

Responses must address who or what, where, and when to establish a factual definition.

Identification Significance Requirements

Responses must state how the term is significant to historiography (how or why) and avoid generalities like 'it still exists today' or Wikipedia-sourced definitions.

Middle Passage

The name of the sea journey of slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies during the 1700s; it added to population growth, diversity, commerce, and the creation of race-based classification.

Section II: Matching

A 10-point section requiring students to organize 10 specific historical events in chronological order.

Matching Event: Romulus Augustus

An event centered on the period when Romulus Augustus is deposed, listed for chronological organization.

Matching Event: Islamic Golden Age

A period whose beginning is listed as an event for chronological organization in Section II.

Matching Event: Charlemagne's Coronation

The event where Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor, used for the matching section.

Matching Event: St. Benedict

Refers to the period when The Rule of St. Benedict is written.

Matching Event: Plague of Justinian

A historical pandemic event to be placed in chronological order for the exam.

Matching Event: Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

The event where Martin Luther posts his Ninety-Five Theses, part of the chronological matching list.

Section III: Essays

A 50-point section requiring two responses, each at least two paragraphs and five sentences long, presenting a clear argument or opinion.

Byzantium Traditions Essay Topic

Examines how Byzantium continued Roman traditions and how it diverged to become a unique civilization.

Medieval Popes Essay Topic

Discusses the extent to which medieval popes acted as political leaders in addition to their roles as religious heads of the Catholic Church.

Islamic Golden Age Essay Topic

Focuses on how Muslim scholars adapted and expanded Classical Greece's philosophical and scientific traditions.

Charlemagne Leadership Essay Topic

Investigates how Charlemagne integrated Roman and Christian values to create a new type of leadership.

Black Death Essay Topic

Analyzes fundamental changes to medieval European religion, economics, culture, and class structure caused by the plague.

Italian Renaissance Essay Topic

Examines how scholars embraced classicism to build new schools of thought.

Voyages of Discovery Essay Topic

Analyzes the 15th-century motivations and the social/economic impacts of these voyages on Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Lutheranism Essay Topic

Covers the main tenets of Lutheranism, how they challenged the Catholic Church, and the subsequent Catholic response.

The Great Schism

One of the key identification terms for the Final Exam covering Modules 5-7.

Investiture Controversy

A listed Identification term regarding the conflict between church and state power in the Middle Ages.

Magna Carta

A specific legal document listed as one of the possible identification terms for the Section I responses.

Columbian Exchange

A term for identification focusing on the transfer of goods, ideas, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.

Catholic Counter-Reformation

The formal response of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation, listed as an identification term.