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Final Exam for Western Civilization I

 

Answer the following questions. Be sure to fill in each space.

 

1. Where should a study of Western Civilization begin?  Why?

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2. How have the earliest civilizations contributed to the Western ideology?

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3. What are the lasting results of Alexander the Great’s empire?

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4. How did Rome move from a republic to an empire?

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5. If you had to pick a date for the “fall” of Rome, what would that date be? Why?

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6. What are the historical roots of Christianity?

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7.  Was Christianity influenced by mystery religions in any way?

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8. Why is Constantine such a pivotal figure in Western history?

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9. What’s in the “Blender” during the paradigm shift that occurs after the decline of the Roman Empire?

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10. What are the roots of feudalism in Western Europe?

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11. Is it justifiable to refer to the early Middle Ages as the “Dark Ages”? Why/ Why not?

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12. After the 8^th century, why does the focus of Western Civilization move from the Mediterranean to Northwest Europe?

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14. How does Europe become a Catholic civilization by the Middle Ages?

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15. How do the Franks come to represent the continuation of Rome? What is the significance?

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16. Describe the Medieval Worldview.

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17. How did the Black Death change the European continent?

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18. What are the most important events leading to the paradigm shift that takes place during the Renaissance?

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19. What technologies of the High Middle Ages have helped change the Medieval world into a Modern one?

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20. Describe the term “the calamitous 14^th century?”

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21. In your opinion, were the Crusades, in a collective sense, a success or a failure?

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22. What are the most important events that led to the decline of the church?

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23. Describe the Italian Renaissance.

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24. In your opinion, who is the most influential figure in the Renaissance?

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25. How might the Protestant Reformation be seen as the northern Renaissance?

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26. How did humanism change education?

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27. Describe the Transition between Medieval and the Modern in Western history.

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28. What legacies exist between the medieval worldview and the Modern one?

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29. If you had to choose a date for the end of Western Civilization Part I, what would it be? Why?

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30. If you could be a peasant in any time and place that we’ve studied, what would it be? Why?

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