Foundations of European History
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Foundations of European History explores the origins and development of European societies from ancient times through the early modern period. The course investigates key historical events, cultural shifts, and influential figures, examining the rise and fall of empires, the spread of religions, the shaping of political institutions, and the emergence of social and economic structures. Through an analysis of primary sources and scholarly interpretations, students gain a comprehensive understanding of the forces that shaped European civilization and set the stage for the modern era.
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Chapter 1: The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations
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Q1) The term satrap relates to a
A) flat-bottomed sailboat that moved heavy goods.
B) type of sandal that distinguished slaves from free peasants in Mesopotamia.
C) governor in the Persian Empire.
D) collection of cuneiform tablets.
E) province of the Persian Empire.
Answer: C
Q2) Historians have debated whether Akhenaten's religious reforms may have influenced
A) Moses
B) Aristotle
C) Hammurabi
D) Gilgamesh
E) Nero
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual
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Q1) Which statement does not accurately describe the Hebrew's relationship with Canaan
A) Hebrews migrated from Mesopotamia to Canaan
B) Some Hebrews moved from Canaan to Egypt
C) Philistines were invited to join Hebrews in Canaan
D) Hebrew reunification in Canaan happened immediately
E) Hebrews may have wandered in the Sinai Peninsula before reaching Canaan
Answer: C
Q2) The theme of parochialism in Hebrew thought
A) stressed the needs and destiny of a chosen people
B) demonstrated a concern for all people
C) rejected the tribal outlook if the Near East
D) borrowed myths from the Chaldeans
E) replaced the universalism of the Egyptians
Answer: A
Q3) Israel
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: The Greeks: From Myth to Reason
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Q1) All of the following statements are true of the Peloponnesian War except
A) witnessed the collapse of the Delian League
B) destroyed the Athenian navy
C) ended the golden of Athenian culture
D) Persian reconquest of the Aegean Sea
E) politics degenerated into civil wars between democrats and oligarchs
Answer: D
Q2) The Iliad was set during
A) the Trojan War
B) the Persian War
C) Alexander the Great's Reign
D) trial of Socrates
E) Fall of Athens
Answer: A
Q3) On the map of the Hellenistic World, transform Alexander's Empire into modern day states, areas, and nations. Please shade and identify.
Answer: The modern-day states, areas, and nations that were once part of Alexander's Empire include Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of India. I will shade and identify these areas on the map accordingly.
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Q1) The plebeians were represented in the
A) Tribal Assembly
B) Centuriate Assembly
C) Agrippa Congress
D) Senate
E) Twelve Tables
Q2) Twelve Tables
Q3) Jewish resentment of Roman rule was exacerbated in the A.D. 30s and 40s by
A) a Roman ban on the practice of Judaism.
B) Roman conversion of the Jerusalem temple into a temple for pagan gods.
C) the Roman introduction of Gothic colonists into Palestine.
D) the order of Caligula to have a statue of himself placed in the temple in Jerusalem.
E) the Roman endorsement of monotheism in Judea.
Q4) How did Octavian gain power while appearing to reject despotism? Why was Octavian careful to avoid accusations of despotism?
Q5) Which factors contributed to the development of Rome as a great military state?
Q6) Neo-Platonism
Q7) Augustus
Q8) Nero
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Chapter 5: Early Christianity: a World Religion
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Q1) Saint Paul
A) had little facility with the Greek language.
B) was parochial rather than cosmopolitan in outlook.
C) was revered as the first hermit.
D) was responsible for the dogmatic break of Christianity with Judaism.
E) preached only to the Jews in the Diaspora.
Q2) Saint Benedict
Q3) Which of the following is not accurate?
A) Christianity inherited the Hebrew view that God is both lawgiver and judge.
B) All Christians rejected Greek philosophy as erroneous.
C) The Greek conception of God was different from the conception of God held by Christianity and the Hebrews.
D) The Greeks held that God was a logical abstraction, a principle of order, and a prime mover.
E) The Greeks approached God through the intellect, not the heart.
Q4) Torah
Q5) Koine
Q6) Explain the significance of two of the following as Church fathers: Saint Jerome, Saint Ambrose, and Saint Augustine.
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Chapter 6: The Rise of Europe: Fusion of Classical, Christian, and Germanic Traditions
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Q1) Examining the treatment of their subjects by the Islamic rulers, one would note that
A) Jews and Christians could testify in court against a Muslim.
B) Jews, but not Christians, were considered protected groups.
C) generally, the Islamic people had a policy of persecution of other faiths.
D) Jews were victimized by nasty stereotypes and caricatures.
E) Christians and Jews had to pay a special tax.
Q2) Attitudes toward the Jewish community in medieval Europe were predicated upon the belief that
A) all Jews for all time were guilty of deicide.
B) Jews practiced ritual killing of Christian children.
C) Jews crucified Jesus
D) Jews were responsible for the Black Plague
E) All of these were charged against Jews.
Q3) The capital of Byzantium was
A) Athens
B) Jerusalem
C) Cairo
D) Constantinople
E) Rome
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Chapter 7: The Flowering and Dissolution of Medieval
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Q1) How did medieval thought connect reason and religion within their view of the universe?
Q2) Medieval thought most closely aligned with which statement
A) reason trumped all other knowledge
B) science could uncover new truths
C) reason was not independent and could not reject supernatural truth
D) scholastic study must be independent of church beliefs
E) mathematics was the basis of all knowledge
Q3) The idea behind the Conciliar Movement would have
A) created a general council limiting papal power.
B) developed a new procedure for electing popes.
C) abolished monasteries and convents.
D) reunited the Greek Orthodox and Roman churches.
E) created a movement by lay people in the church.
Q4) Jan Hus
Q5) The Canterbury Tales
Q6) Discuss three individuals whose studies during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries contributed to the development of a more scientific approach to nature. Comment on the character of their work.
Q7) Crécy Page 9
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Chapter 8: Transition to the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation
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Q1) Florence
Q2) The Prince
Q3) What is the meaning of the term individualism in the Renaissance context? How was individualism of the Renaissance incompatible with the medieval worldview?
Q4) In 1517, Martin Luther was motivated to act by
A) the selling of indulgences in Wittenberg
B) the excommunication of Henry IV
C) the publication of Utopia
D) the teachings of Erasmus in nearby Netherlands
E) his conversion following a conversation with John Calvin
Q5) Giotto's contributions to art include
A) using alterations in light and shade.
B) creating a three dimensional figure to show space.
C) using space in a painting to tell a story.
D) using illusion of movement for dramatic effect.
E) All of these were Giotto's contributions to the art of painting.
Q6) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Q7) John Calvin
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Chapter 9: Political and Economic Transformation: National
States, Overseas Expansion, Commercial Revolution
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Q1) How did Philip II fuse his religious zeal to his foreign policy?
A) Jews were burned at the stake.
B) Jon Hus was imprisoned.
C) He tried to put a Spaniard in the papacy.
D) He sent the Spanish Armada as a holy crusade to destroy Protestantism in England.
E) He married a Catholic French princess.
Q2) the Spanish Armada
Q3) What technological innovations facilitated European exploration?
Q4) Little Spain
Q5) Francisco Pizarro
Q6) Which of the following won a victory over the Incas of Peru?
A) Hernando Cortés
B) Francisco Pizarro
C) Columbus
D) Magellan
E) Bartholomeu Dias
Q7) Referring to Map 9.1, shade in the areas that were Catholic, Protestant, and Calvinist
Q8) Vasco da Gama
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Chapter 10: Intellectual Transformation: the Scientific
Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment
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Q1) William Harvey
Q2) Copernicus' model of the universe was published in
A) the Almagest.
B) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
C) Heliocentrism and the Heavens
D) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
E) the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
Q3) Which of the following refused to publish his work due to his concern that it would spark controversy?
A) Copernicus
B) Galileo
C) Kepler
D) Brahe
E) Bruno
Q4) salons
Q5) Jean Jacques Rousseau
Q6) enlightened despotism
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Q7) On a blank map of Europe, show where the following individuals worked: Isaac Newton, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, Nicholas Copernicus, and René Descartes.
Chapter 11: The Era of the French Revolution: Affirmation of Liberty and Equality
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Q1) Estates General
Q2) The collapse of the alliance between France and Russia could be blamed on all of the following except
A) Russia's support of Spanish rebels
B) Russia's illicit trade with Britian
C) France's growing influence in Central Europe
D) the creation of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw
E) Napoleon's craving for glory
Q3) The Women's March to Versailles, illustration in text resulted in all of the following EXCEPT
A) the royal family escaping to Austria.
B) Paris Guards supported and joined in the march.
C) the king promised bread for the people.
D) many nobles fled the country.
E) the king was forced to sign the Declaration of Rights.
Q4) Locate on a map of Europe the sites of the following battles: Ulm, Austerlitz, Borodino, Friedland, Leipzig, and Trafalgar. Next to each, write the date of the battle.
Q5) National Convention
Q6) Duke of Wellington
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Chapter 12: The Industrial Revolution: the Transformation of Society
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Q1) Britain was able to avoid revolution because it
A) took a militaristic stand against worker violence.
B) made violence appear to be an attack on nationalism.
C) it made unions legal.
D) created worker committees.
E) became a symbol of reform rather than revolution.
Q2) All of the following are true of the working class in the nineteenth century except that
A) they usually arrived in the city from agricultural areas.
B) they moved to the city without their families.
C) they worked for long hours, sometimes fifteen a day.
D) working and living conditions were terrible.
E) their labor barely contributed to industrialization.
Q3) Which of the following accurately describes the impact of the steam engine?
A) It was impractical for mining.
B) It required very skilled workers for its operation.
C) It facilitated the shift to child labor and women's labor.
D) It required more human participation in the manufacturing process.
E) It required only male labor.
Q4) Chartists
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Chapter 13: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Immanuel Kant
Q2) Which statement best portrays what Romantics thought about history and historians?
A) History is a collection of unique eras and should emphasize the particular.
B) History should be used to teach people how not to repeat past mistakes.
C) History is a list of human folly and error.
D) Historians can never shed light on the creative spirit of human experience.
E) History is best written as a creative expression of the historian's spirit.
Q3) The book Reflections on the Revolution in France helped to create
A) conservatism.
B) liberalism.
C) socialism.
D) nationalism.
E) romanticism.
Q4) tabula rasa
Q5) Compare and contrast liberalism with conservatism.
Q6) romanticism
Q7) George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Q8) William Wordsworth
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Chapter 14: Surge of Liberalism and Nationalism:
Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Unification
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Q1) William I
Q2) Class distinctions undermined the revolutions of 1848 because
A) Conservatives left the barricades when the urban poor became radicalized.
B) Marxist ideology dictated that it must.
C) Bourgeois liberals favored political reforms, while the laboring poor demanded social reforms.
D) Urban poor demanded the expansion of voting rights and the middle class opposed universal suffrage.
E) Conservatives accused the bourgeois of inciting Jacobin tendencies in the laboring poor.
Q3) How did Bismarck use war to further his plan for the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership?
Q4) realpolitik
Q5) The Revolution of 1848 in France lead to all of the following except
A) abdication of King Louis Philippe.
B) the creation of a new republic in France.
C) expansion of voting rights.
D) the election of Louis Napoleon as President.
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E) the demonstrated proof of a new radical population in France.
Q6) Franco-Prussian War
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Chapter 15: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century: Realism, Positivism, Darwinism, and Social
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Q1) One may correctly say of John Stuart Mill's work On Liberty that
A) it influenced Marx's Communist Manifesto.
B) it referred to liberty as a supreme good.
C) it expressed a fear of anarchism if people were not somehow restricted.
D) the state should restrict citizens' beliefs to Biblical morality.
E) citizens can develop their moral and intellectual potential in an authoritarian state.
Q2) Positivism
Q3) War and Peace
Q4) Darwin adopted ____ idea that population produces faster than the food supply, causing a struggle for existence.
A) Strauss's
B) Smith's
C) the Ricardian
D) Owens'
E) the Malthusian
Q5) realism
Q6) John Stuart Mill
Q7) Social Darwinism
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Chapter 16: Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century:
Modernization, Nationalism, Imperialism
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Q1) The Kulturkampf was Bismarck's attempt at subjugating
A) German Catholics
B) Jews
C) Socialists
D) French Partisans
E) Industrialists
Q2) Open Door Policy
Q3) Discuss the meaning of the following terms: colony, protectorate, spheres of influence, and extraterritoriality.
Q4) Taiping Rebellion
Q5) Which of the following Russian tsars liberated the serfs in 1861?
A) Alexander I
B) Alexander II
C) Alexander III
D) Nicholas I
E) Nicholas II
Q6) Empress Tzu-hsi
Q7) Lydia Becker
Q8) Third Republic
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Chapter 17: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, Human
Nature, and the Arts
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Q1) The superman described by Nietzsche was most influenced by A) sexual drives.
B) the id.
C) desire for power.
D) coveting wealth.
E) the quest for fame.
Q2) Almost the moment it was created (by the introduction of universal manhood suffrage in many European states in the late nineteenth century) modern democracy came under attack from political theorists. What are some of the attacks described in this book? Which of them do you find convincing and which do you not?
Q3) Sigmund Freud
Q4) The authors of your text contend that Freud
A) never vacillated in his basic support of reason.
B) believed that recognizing the similarity of the unconscious among human beings would lead to a confirmation and affirmation of self.
C) affirmed that the study of the unconscious would lead to a great human pride.
D) had a limited vision because he thought that the irrational could never be studied by the rational mind.
E) never wavered in his support for the irrational.
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Chapter 18: World War I: the West in Despair
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Q1) Which of the following members of the Black Hand carried out the assassination that triggered World War I?
A) Kaiser William
B) Alexander Izvolsky
C) Gavrilo Princip
D) Sergei Witte
E) Alexander Kerensky
Q2) Designate the following on a map of Europe: Polish Corridor, Danzig, Saar Basin, and Brest-Litovsk.
Q3) The scope of government changed during the war by
A) regulating industrial production.
B) producing sophisticated propaganda.
C) demanding total loyalty of its citizens.
D) mobilizing and organizing citizens like soldiers.
E) all of the above.
Q4) Heinrich Von Treitschke
Q5) the Dardanelles
Q6) First Balkan War
Q7) Entente Cordiale
Q8) unrestricted submarine warfare
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Chapter 19: An Era of Totalitarianism
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Q1) The authors of your text refer to each of the following as components of fascism except
A) the abandonment of individual freedom.
B) rejection of Western civilization by intellectuals.
C) theories supporting the equality of all groups in a fascist state.
D) a stress on action.
E) exaltation of the leader.
Q2) George Orwell
Q3) The term New Deal refers to
A) Roosevelt's economic program to get America out of the Great Depression.
B) Dollfuss's coming to terms with the Austrian Social Democrats.
C) the American decision to start sending ships to Britain during World War II.
D) Britain's decision to devalue the pound.
E) Germany's economic program after World War I.
Q4) According to the text, Mann's The Magic Mountain is an allegory for
A) a group of tuberculosis patients in a sanitarium.
B) the decomposition of the bourgeois west.
C) the avant-garde artistic community.
D) the Hollywood film community.
E) the collapse of Communism.
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Chapter 20: World War 2: Western Civilization in the Balance
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Q1) All of the following tries to explain why the Western democracies did not react to Hitler EXCEPT
A) nations and their peoples could not believe that another World War could happen.
B) sympathy for Germany and the harsh treatment of the Treaty of Versailles.
C) there was a greater fear of communism than fascism.
D) economic concerns were priorities in many nations, resulting from the Great Depression.
E) nations feared that punishing Germany would drive it to ally with Japan and Russia.
Q2) What types of resistance movements existed in Europe during World War II? Explain.
Q3) On a map of Europe, designate the location of the following military engagements: Warsaw, Dunkirk, the London blitz, Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, and Normandy.
Q4) Anschluss
Q5) Stalingrad
Q6) Blitzkrieg
Q7) Battle of Midway
Q8) Maginot Line
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Chapter 21: Europe After World War 2: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989
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Q1) How did European and Western powers deal with the revived calls for independence from their colonial holdings after World War II?
Q2) Charles de Gaulle
Q3) Cuban Missile Crisis
Q4) What are the major ways that the Soviet Union and the United States attempted to extend their influence during the cold war?
Q5) Judging from the text, what were some of the reasons for the recovery of economic prosperity and political stability in Western Europe after World War II?
Q6) Berlin Wall
Q7) Each of the following statements about West Germany is correct except that
A) the Cold War acted as a restraint on the German economy.
B) it was in a militarily strategic position in terms of the Cold War.
C) West Germany was much larger than East Germany.
D) it was quickly integrated into the new postwar Europe.
E) its industrial expertise was indispensable for rebuilding the Western European economy.
Q8) Mikhail Gorbachev
Q9) John Paul II
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Chapter 22: The Troubled Present
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Q1) Although still faced with some prejudice, many different peoples have thrived in Europe which raises the question; why have Muslim immigrants in Western society been faced with problems of integration? Which of the following statement is NOT true in answering this question?
A) Islam is seen as a religion that supports violence.
B) Muslims wish to be governed by their own religious laws.
C) Equal rights for women are not acceptable to many Muslims.
D) Polygamy is not legal in the West.
E) Separation of church and state conflicts with many Islamic beliefs.
Q2) Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Q3) Eurocrats
Q4) During the twentieth century, the world's population has virtually A) doubled.
B) tripled.
C) quadrupled.
D) declined due to birth control.
E) increased by one and a half times.
Q5) Taliban
Q6) What are the benefits and negatives of increasing globalization?
Q7) Slobodan Milosevic
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