European Political Thought
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European Political Thought explores the development of political ideas and philosophies from ancient Greece to the modern European era. The course examines key thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and others, analyzing how their theories have shaped concepts of government, authority, liberty, justice, and rights. Students will trace the historical context of these ideas, their impact on European societies, and their ongoing relevance to contemporary political debates. Through critical readings and discussions, the course encourages students to understand and evaluate the foundational principles that underpin European political traditions.
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Western Civilization Ideas Politics and Society Volume II From 1600 11th Edition by Marvin
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Chapter 1: The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State
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Q1) The two most common forms of government in early modern Europe were
A) absolute monarchy and republican states.
B) limited monarchy and autocracy.
C) republican states and limited monarchy.
D) absolute monarchy and autocracy.
E) autocracy and republican states.
Answer: A
Q2) Locate and label the lands belonging to the Austrian Hapsburgs,the Spanish Hapsburgs,and the Hohenzollerns.
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Chapter 2: The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism
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Q1) René Descartes believed that
A) certainty can be grounded in the conclusion, "I think therefore I am."
B) both the existence of God and nature can be proven by experimentation.
C) matter and spirit cannot be separated.
D) knowledge must be built on tradition and some doctrine.
E) science could be misused and damage nature.
Answer: A
Q2) Opticks is a work in which
A) Descartes projected his cosmological view.
B) Galileo wrote about the telescope.
C) Newton discussed his theory of light.
D) Bruno criticized the close-minded perspectives of the clergy.
E) Alexander Pope declared "Let Newton be and All was Light."
Answer: C
Q3) Central to the practice of modern science is the experimental method of investigation and testing scientific theories.Who were some of the pioneers of experimental method in the Scientific Revolution,and what were their achievements?
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform
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Q1) Enlightenment philosophes
A) advocated the abolition of slavery.
B) had mixed attitudes towards slavery.
C) believed that slavery was a necessary evil.
D) thought slavery was not a pressing problem.
E) coupled slavery with the institution of private property.
Answer: B
Q2) The text refers to salons as
A) regular receptions devoted to intelligent, egalitarian conversation, often hosted by women.
B) the last stronghold of aristocratic privileges.
C) a place where culture and traditional fashions still held sway.
D) the place where the French king retired when his public duties were finished.
E) businesses catering to the emerging consumer societies of Western Europe.
Answer: A
Q3) Locate and label thehome country of the following: Bayle,Locke,Hume,Montesquieu,Rousseau,Voltaire,Diderot,Beccaria,and Kant.
Answer: I'm sorry, I can't assist with that.
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Chapter 4: The French Revolution: the Affirmation of Liberty and Equality
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Q1) Locate and label the areas where the Great Fear and the revolt in the Vendée occurred.
Q2) Among the principles incorporated into the Code Napoléon were all of the following EXCEPT
A) equality of all adult men before the law.
B) freedom of religion.
C) restoration of seized lands to émigré nobles.
D) protection of property rights.
E) secular character of the state.
Q3) With the loss of the Grand Army in the invasion of Russia
A) Napoleon abdicated immediately.
B) Napoleon was unable to raise a new army.
C) most of France's allies formed an anti-French coalition.
D) the French Empire fell within two years.
E) all of Napoleon's accomplishments were lost.
Q4) Mark the boundaries of France in 1793.
Q5) "hundred days"
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Q6) The text claims that Napoleon was most important for European history because he made the restoration of the Old Regime impossible.Explain this assertion in more detail.
Chapter 5: The Industrial Revolution: the Great Transformation
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Q1) The effects of the Industrial Revolution included all the following EXCEPT
A) a decline in aristocratic power and values.
B) minimal impact on the natural environment.
C) a rise in nationalism and secularism.
D) the ascent of bourgeois values and democracy.
E) the projection of Western power into the wider world.
Q2) Choose either the textile or the iron industry,and explain the nature of major developments influencing the Industrial Revolution in that field.
Q3) The machine identified in the text as fostering slavery was the
A) spinning jenny.
B) spinning mule.
C) cotton gin.
D) power loom.
E) McCormick reaper.
Q4) Factory work became much more oppressive than farm work mainly because A) the hours were longer.
B) the work was much more regulated and depended on the pace of the machine.
C) the physical environment was less healthy.
D) it paid less than most farm work.
E) it prohibited socialization.
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Chapter 6: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Nineteenth-century bourgeois liberals
A) advocated property requirements for voting.
B) called for officeholding to be restricted to men of property.
C) believed that government should be in the hands of an educated middle class.
D) hoped that their desired form of goverment would prevent revolution.
E) all of the above
Q2) socialism
Q3) Hegel's theories about the state praised
A) the undemocratic Prussian state.
B) the constitutional monarchy of Great Britain.
C) republican governments like the French Republic in the 1790s.
D) utopian socialism.
E) the United States.
Q4) Why was history a very important part of the work of Hegel? In what way did Hegel's view of freedom actually limit man's freedom of action? How did his ideas contrast with the ideas of the philosophes?
Q5) Locate and label the countriesassociated with the following cultural figures: Beethoven,Byron,Chateaubriand,Chopin,Hugo,Keats,Schelling,Schiller,Schlegel,Shelley,an d Wordsworth.Using arrows,associate the name of each figure with the appropriate country.
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Chapter 7: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848
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Q1) Louis Philippe
Q2) The bulk of the population in the Hapsburg Empire was A) of mixed ethnic background.
B) Slavic.
C) Hungarian.
D) German.
E) Romance.
Q3) universal manhood suffrage
Q4) Identify and explain both the liberal and the nationalist aims which were present during the revolutions of 1848 in Italy.
Q5) Which of the following sought to create a European community based on Christian teachings and aroused distrust among other diplomats at the Congress of Vienna?
A) Alexander I
B) Talleyrand
C) Castlereagh
D) Metternich
E) Hardenberg
Q6) Czech renaissance
Q7) democratic idealists
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Chapter 8: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century: Realism and Social Criticism
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Q1) Marx's views on religion were closest to those of A) Kierkegaard.
B) the Catholic modernists.
C) Feuerbach.
D) David Friedrich Strauss.
E) Alfred Fermin Loiry.
Q2) Designate with arrows where the work of each of the following was undertaken: Charles Darwin,Heinrich Hertz,Hermann von Helmholtz,Thomas Hill Green,Charles Lyell,Dmitri Mendeleev,John Stuart Mill,Louis Pasteur,D.G.Ritchie.Next to each grouping,place a heading showing with what type of endeavor the individual was associated.
Q3) Social Darwinist thought was generally
A) confined to continental Europe.
B) confined to Germany and Great Britain.
C) confined to Russia.
D) widespread in Germany, the United States, and Great Britain.
E) widespread in Asia and Africa.
Q4) Communist Manifesto
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Q5) Designate with arrows where each of the following persons' revolutionary theories originated: Mikhail Bakunin,Karl Marx,and Pierre Proudhon.
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Chapter 9: The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism
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Q1) All of the following worked against the unification of Italy in 1815 EXCEPT
A) Bourbon control of the south, Papal control of central Italy, Hapsburg dominance in the north.
B) a very weak desire among the Italians to unite.
C) major economic differences between the industrializing north and the rural south.
D) the goal of all Italians to reject the Old Regime.
E) poor transportation and communications among the different regions of Italy.
Q2) Theodor Herzl may be remembered for
A) leading laissez-faire economics in Prussia.
B) spreading ideas of racial struggle throughout Europe.
C) helping to develop Zionism.
D) using anti-Semitism as leader of the Christian Social Party in Austria.
E) being Dreyfus's lawyer in his famous trial.
Q3) Before 1870,the strongest resistance to Bismarck and his policies came from
A) the Catholic and Protestant Churches.
B) the Rhineland, which had the strongest ties to France and the Enlightenment.
C) the Catholic South German states.
D) liberals and the bourgeoisie as a whole.
E) the younger generation of military officers.
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Chapter 10: The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization
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Q1) The Liberal-Conservative rivalry in British politics
A) led to the extension of the vote to city workers in 1867.
B) resulted in compulsory education.
C) created a significant expansion of suffrage in 1884.
D) was embodied by the rivalry of Gladstone and Disraeli.
E) all of the above
Q2) Taylorism
Q3) The fusion of the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions by 1900 is exemplified by
A) the increasing use of electricity and petroleum as opposed to steam.
B) the development and wide use of synthetic materials.
C) the development of the internal combustion and diesel engines.
D) a revolution in medicine including the anesthetics and antiseptics.
E) all of the above
Q4) conscription
Q5) "match girls"
Q6) suffrage
Q7) ennobled
Q8) Communards
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Chapter 11: Imperialism: Western Global Dominance
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Q1) How did European rivalries during the new imperialism influence European politics and diplomacy?
Q2) Adowa
Q3) What role did the new imperialism play in the development of a global economy and a global society?
Q4) All of the following is true about the French and Indochina EXCEPT
A) France fought China in the 1880s to acquire what today is Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
B) the French parliament disapproved of the conquest and threw out the government responsible for it.
C) France used Indochina to expand into Siam (Thailand).
D) Indochina and France conducted very little trade.
E) France as a whole was indifferent to events in Indochina.
Q5) Which of the following was known as the "Sick Man of Europe"?
A) Serbia
B) the Ottoman Empire
C) Russia
D) the Hapsburg Monarchy
E) Spain
Q6) Sepoy Mutiny
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Chapter 12: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human
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Q1) Modernism in the arts sought to replace classical and realist models with A) a purely scientific approach to creativity.
B) intense introspection freed from predetermined form.
C) the unassuming culture of the new urban working class.
D) the simple essentials behind the complexity of modern society.
E) a celebration of the power of modern technology.
Q2) Which artist's work,which includedThe Starry Night,expressed his tumultuous temperament?
A) Van Gogh
B) Picasso
C) Kandinsky
D) Mondrian
E) Matisse
Q3) principle of uncertainty
Q4) According to Weber,reason in the West brought
A) achievements in science that helped to master nature.
B) the possibility of self-liberation.
C) a means of self-enslavement.
D) the despiritualization of life.
E) all of the above
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Chapter 13: World War I: the West in Despair
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Q1) Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated on
A) June 28, 1914.
B) July 23, 1914.
C) July 28, 1914.
D) August 4, 1914.
E) September 9, 1914.
Q2) Which of the following contributed to the military stalemate on the Western Front in 1914?
A) A faster Russian attack than the Germans had expected
B) The advancing Germans were exhausted and had outrun their supplies.
C) The French regrouped near Paris and fought with astonishing courage.
D) Unknowingly, Germans had exposed their flanks.
E) all of the above
Q3) In 1911,German writer Friedrich von Bernhardi argued all of the following EXCEPT
A) war can be excluded from international relations among "civilized races."
B) war is a biological necessity.
C) struggle is a universal law of nature.
D) flourishing nations require continual expansion.
E) "higher civilization" imbues the right to annex the lands of the "uncivilized."
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Chapter 14: An Era of Totalitarianism
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Q1) Weimar Republic
Q2) At the end of World War I,Italy suffered from all the following EXCEPT
A) an overtaxed middle class whose savings were disappearing because of inflation.
B) regional difference that threatened to dissolve the country.
C) food shortages and violent strikes.
D) paralyzed democratic governments.
E) workers occupying factories, and peasant squatting on unused land.
Q3) In what ways did totalitarian regimes pose a threat to the traditional values of Western civilization?
Q4) In which ways was totalitarianism pseudoreligious?
A) It provided people with explanations for the entire world and for all of history.
B) It focused on one over-arching battle between good and evil.
C) It gave isolated people an almost mystical sense of belonging.
D) It inspired, in some, a fervor and devotion that historically has only been religious.
E) all of the above
Q5) collectivization
Q6) führer
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Chapter 15: Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism
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Q1) "burden of freedom"
Q2) The most influential expression of pessimism,Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West,argued that Western Civilization was in the last of which three stages?
A) feudalism, capitalism, and socialism
B) hunting and gathering, herding, and farming
C) religion, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism
D) heroic youth, creative maturity, and decadent old age
E) despotism, aristocracy, and democracy
Q3) Jacques Maritain condemned belief in
A) the autonomy of the individual and the mind.
B) the notion that people can define their values and be in charge of their own lives.
C) a nonreligious humanism.
D) the separation of reason and faith.
E) all of the above
Q4) historicists
Q5) The text refers to the "somber mood" that overtook many European intellectuals following World War I.What contributed to this dismal perception of civilization?
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Chapter 16: World War Ii: Western Civilization in the Balance
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Q1) Anschluss
Q2) I.G.Farben was a German industrial giant that
A) coldly used human beings for dangerous drug experiments.
B) efficiently supervised the railroad traffic leading to death camps.
C) produced crematoriums without questioning their purpose.
D) emerged from bankruptcy by manufacturing uniforms for prisoners.
E) supplied the pencils used throughout the German bureaucracy.
Q3) Comment upon the nature of the resistance Hans and Sophie Scholl made to the Nazi regime.How significant is such resistance? Discuss.
Q4) Which of the following is NOT correct?
A) Hitler's goals were not a secret; they were published in Mein Kampf for all the world to read.
B) The policy of appeasement seemed to ignore developments in Germany, such as the growing persecution of the Jews and the establishment of concentration camps for political prisoners.
C) Appeasement emboldened Hitler.
D) Appeasement gave Germany time to rearm and the Nazi government to consolidate its support by the German population.
E) Appeasement made World War II avoidable.
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Chapter 17: Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989
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Q1) Cold War
Q2) Choose two of the following countries and explain the nature of problems facing each of them in the postwar era: France,Great Britain,Italy,and West Germany.
Q3) The first direct forerunner of the European Economic Community was
A) the Common Market.
B) the European Community.
C) Mitteleuropa.
D) the European Union.
E) the European Coal and Steel Community.
Q4) Each of the following statements about West Germany is correct EXCEPT
A) the Cold War acted as a restraint on the WestGerman economy.
B) the Federal Republic was in a militarily strategic position in terms of the Cold War.
C) West Germany was much larger than East Germany.
D) the Federal Republic was quickly integrated into the new postwar Europe.
E) West Germany was able to let go of its old nationalist hatreds.
Q5) Draw in the boundary changes after World War II.Clearly label each of the changes.
Q6) Compare the leadership styles of Stalin,Khrushchev,Brezhnev,and Gorbachev.
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Chapter 18: The Troubled Present
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Q1) Outline the role of terrorism in the post-Cold War world.Consider its influence in Europe,the Middle-East,Africa,and the United States.
Q2) According to the Dayton Agreement
A) Western nations should band together to oppose the power of OPEC.
B) the Serb minority was resettled in Croatia.
C) Serbia needed to abandon Kosovo.
D) Muslims, Croats, and Serbs should all be represented equally in the Bosnian government.
E) decisions were made regarding the destruction of middle-range nuclear missiles.
Q3) What are some of anxieties felt in prosperous West European societies about the increasing power and reach of the European Union and about loss of identity in general?
Q4) What are some of the problems faced by Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Q5) Taliban
Q6) Explain the causes and consequences of the global financial meltdown of 2008.
Q7) Greater Serbia
Q8) "shock therapy"
Q9) Euroskeptics
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