Western Civ Midterm

Western Civilization: 2024 Semester 1 Exam Review Packet

Mr. Watson

Exam Format

: The Exam will consist of 3 sections

Matching

: 20 matching questions (1 point each). You will take this section first, on paper.

At the completion of this section, you will turn it in to the exam proctor before completing

the rest of the exam in Canvas. You will only have 20 possible answers from which to select

(there will be no extra answers)

Short Answer

: Choose 7 of 10 (5 points each). To be taken in Canvas

Essay

: Choose from a selection of at least 2 options (45 points). To be taken in Canvas

All Matching and Short Answer terms will be selected from the below list

Chapters 1-3

Chapters 4-6

Chapters 7-9

Rule by Terror

Optimates and Populares

Manor System

Phoenicians

Struggle of the Orders

Feudalism

Mycenaeans

Patrician and Plebian

Charlemagne

Persian Wars

Punic Wars

Carolingian Renaissance

Polis

First Triumvirate

Alfred the Great

Peloponnesian War

Second Triumvirate

Guild System

Battle of Marathon

Pax Romana

Scholasticism

Delian League

Principate

Magna Carta

Phalanx

Augustus

Hanseatic League

Herodotus

Diocletian

Norman Conquest

Philip II of Macedon

Constantine

Investiture Controversy

Stoicism

Paul of Tarsus

Great Schism (1054)

Ptolemaic Egypt

Saint Benedict

Avignon Papacy

Alexander the Great

Five Pillars of Islam

Great Famine

Seleucid Empire

Code of Justinian

Bubonic Plague

Socrates

Petrine Doctrine

Western Schism

Federates

Hundred Years War

Battle of Tours (732)

English Longbow

Qur'an

Chapters 10 and 12

Chapters 11 and 13

Humanist

Isabella of Castille

Petrarch

95 Theses

Michaelangelo

Martin Luther

Italian Renaissance

Diet of Worms (1521)

Republic of Florance

Peace of Augsburg

Machiavelli

John Calvin

Linear Perspective

Acts of Supremacy

Printing Press

Council of Trent

Prince Henry the Navigator

Defenestration of Prague

Vasco de Gama

Thirty Years War

Treaty of Tordesillas

Mercantilism

Hernando Cortes

Joint-Stock Company

Encomienda

Absolutism

Columbian Exchange

Cardinal Richelieu

Atlantic Slave Trade

Louis XIV

Oliver Cromwell

Essay

. Below I have listed 4 essay questions. Two of them will appear on the exam, with

the requirement to write on one of them.

From antiquity through the seventeenth century, various forms of government and political

system existed. Summarize the transformations that occurred from Athenian democracy and

the Roman republic to the monarchies of the seventeenth century. How did those

transformations occur? Be sure to discuss the different forms of monarchy that emerged in the

seventeenth century.

The role and influence of Christianity evolved significantly from its founding until the end of the

seventeenth century. Discuss Christianity’s evolution in European society over this period,

including major events, major changes, significant figures, and relationships with political

leadership.

How did the ancient world (most notably ancient Greece and Rome) influence the development

of both Medieval and early modern Europe? You should consider cultural, religious, political,

and military trends and topics, while demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of the material

we’ve discussed so far.

In the 300 years following the Bubonic Plague, Europe experienced significant changes

politically, socially, religiously, and militarily. Discuss the major events that drove these changes.