Download ECOMUNDO CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS ACADEMIC YEAR 2010

ECOMUNDO CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010 – 2011
WORLD HISTORY QUESTIONNAIRE
I SEMESTER RECOVERY
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What is history?
Classify history through human groups and regions? How do they differ?
Classify history through themes and activities (branches)?
Ethimologically define: Anno Domini, Paleo, Meso, Neo, Lithic, Histor?
Scheme a time-line with human history ages and milestones (start +
end).
6. What are the ages of prehistory and stages?
7. What is an auxiliary science? What are the 4 groups of sciences?
8. Describe the weather conditions during the Mesolithic era?
9. What auxiliary sciences relate to the study of Prehistory?
10. What 3 first recorded events coincide with the beginning of recorded
human history?
11. Scheme a timeline with the events of antiquity of the following dates: 776
BC, 539 BC, 385 BC, 221 BC, 49 BC, 0 AD, 34 AD, 285 AD
12. Why are the Middle Ages called that way?
13. How are the Low Middle Ages called? Why?
14. Why did the east Roman Empire collapse?
15. What was the church power like during Low Medieval times (Early Middle
Ages)? Explain.
16. How did the system of duties work in Feudalism?
17. What were the Crusades? Explain.
18. What was the Papal Schism and what consequence did it produce in
believers? Explain.
19. What was the Hundred Years war? Explain.
20. What 2 events provoked the population to be drastically reduced in
Europe in the late (high) Middle Ages? Explain, why did each develop?
21. What was the Age of Reason? What were two schools that studied
knowledge acquisition during the Modern Age?
22. What Consequence did Renaissance bring to religion? What important
event occurred with the Catholic Church?
23. What was the French Revolution? What period of History did it end?
What consequence did it have for Man Kind (Humanity)?
24. What was the Cold War?
25. What German group participated politically during World War II?
26. Name three reasons why the Renaissance started.
27. What is the Renaissance? When did it begin? Where was it originated?
28. What is Humanism?
29. Scheme a chart naming the four auxiliary sciences that the Renaissance
impacted directly and indirectly. State the consequences in each Science
and the famous people that marked a difference in each science.
30. What was the difference between Romanesque and Gothic style in the
middle Ages? What were their characteristics? Which one came first?
31. How do the paintings before and after the Renaissance differ one to the
other?
32. Who was Leonardo Da Vinci, and what is he famous for? Michelangelo
Bounarotti?
33. What is Lorenzo De Medici recognized for?
34. What are differences and similarities between the architecture style from
the Renaissance and the architecture style from the Roman and Greek
Antiquity?
35. How did humanism impact Literature?
36. Name four important writers of the time. What were their famous books?
What were they about?
37. Back to the Middle Ages, what writer introduced to scholars the
possibility of renewing the language style in the books by writing in other
languages aside from Latin? What was the name of his famous text?
38. How did the Humanism affect the Natural Sciences?
39. What 3 important inventions marked up humanity? Name their
consequences.
40. What was the first book Johann Gutenberg printed in his press?
41. How did The Renaissance impact Religion?
42. What was the Protestant Reformation? Who led it?
43. What was the “95 thesis”? Who was the author? Where did he publish it?
What consequence did the text cause?
44. Why did Luther write the text? Name three, include the main reason.
45. What was the Council of Trent for?
46. What three consequences did the Protestant Reformation bring to the
people?
47. Why did Martin Luther want the Bible to be written in other Languages
aside from Latin?
48. Who were the Calvinists? Who were the Huguenots?
49. What kind of Religion Reformation did England have? How did it happen
and why?
50. What was the Counter Reformation and what purpose did it have?
51. Who led the Counter Reformation and what was the name of the
religious group he created?
52. Who was Catalina De Medici?
53. Why did she decide to oppose and ban Huguenots?
54. What was the Massacre of the Night of Saint Bartolommeo? When and
where did it occur? What happened during that event? Who led it and
why?
55. Who were the Spanish Catholic Monarchs? Why were they called that
way?
56. How did the constant fights among Castile and Aragon reigns end?
57. What region did the Monarchs want to recover? From who? When did the
crown finally conquer it back and how? What occurred to the former
occupants?
58. What was the capital of the States of the Catholic Monarchs? Who was
the head of government?
59. What language spread in the region and why?
60. When did Christopher Columbus discover America? How could he
finance his expeditions? What occurred to the Empire of the Monarchs
once a “New World” was discovered?
61. Where did the conquest in America start to later spread through the
expanse?
62. Vocabulary: Maecenas, Romanesque style, Gothic style, Renaissance,
Humanism, Huguenots, Calvinists, stained glass
63. Historic Source interpretation: The student must be able to recognize an
event from a picture and explain the reasons why a picture represents
such historic episode.
64. Historic Source interpretation: The student must be able to analyze and
state whether a piece of art belongs or not to a date before or after the
Renaissance, and explain the reasons for it.
65. Characters from History: The student must be able to recognize what the
following people did and who they were:
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo Bounarotti
Lorenzo De Medici
Filippo Brunelleschi
William Shakespeare
Dante Allegierie
Thomas More
Desiderius Erasmus
Johannes Gutenberg
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Catalina de Medici
Martin Luther
King Henry VIII
Ignacio de Loyola
Johann Tetzel
Elizabeth de Castile
Fernando de Aragon
Christopher Columbus