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Fall 2003
History 0200: Midterm Review
The best way to study for this exam is to review your lecture notes and your reading
notes, and to study the assigned maps. The outlines that you have and that are now also
on the web at http://www.pitt.edu/~irinal/hist200, as well as the outlines on the overheads
I show in class, are a way to organize more detailed notes and facts. You should also look
carefully at “Café Europa,” The Balkans, and the two documents by Maria Theresa and
Joseph II respectively. You may be asked to analyze a portion of one of these.
Be able to identify, explain, contextualize, date and/or place on a map (where
appropriate), the following terms:
Slavenka Drakulic
“The Life of Monuments”
Eastern Europe
Central Europe
Balkans/South Eastern Europe
Bulgars
Magyars
West Slavs
East Slavs
South Slavs
Franks
Lithuanians
Union of Lublin
Croatia
Bosnia
Serbia
Kosovo (Battle of)
Mohacs (Battle of)
Catholicism
Orthodoxy
Ottoman threat
Emperor Constantine the Great
Millet system
Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire
Great Schism
House of Osman
House of Habsburg
Ottoman conquest
Habsburg Empire
Holy Roman Empire
Austria
Bohemia
Hungary
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Poland-Lithuania
Bulgaria
Constantinople (Fall of Constantinople)
Prague
Vienna
Pragmatic Sanction
Piast Dynasty
Jagiellonian Dynasty
Prague (Charles) University
Cracow (Jagiellonian) University
Teutonic Knights
Crusades
Islam
Cyril & Methodius
Jan Hus
Utraquism
Counter-Reformation
Battle of White Mountain
Enlightened Absolutism
Peter the Great
Frederick the Great
Maria Theresa
Joseph II
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On the first part of the exam some terms from this list will appear paired and you
will have to explain the relationship between the two items in each pair. For
example:
Poland
Maria Theresa
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Lithuania
Joseph II
You will encounter several true/false statements of the type: “The Ottoman
conquests in Europe were an unqualified tragedy for the conquered peoples and
territories.” “All migrations to Eastern Europe came from Central Asia.” You will
have to explain why such statements are true or false and give evidence for your
position on the statement.
Here are two possible essay questions you should prepare to answer by reviewing
assigned readings, lecture and discussion notes. One of these will appear on the midterm.
1. The Habsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
grew into powerful states from modest beginnings. Trace and compare the rise of
these states and their societies, the policies they employed, the obstacles they
encountered, and the opportunities they were able to seize in their expansion.
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Which peoples and countries in Eastern Europe did these super states encompass?
How did they differ in their development?
2. The peoples of Eastern Europe were all pagan in the early Middle Ages, and some
remained so until the 14th century. Describe the rise of Christianity in Eastern
Europe citing four different instances of conversion. What were the political and
cultural results of these conversions to Eastern or Western Christianity given the
particular circumstances in which they occurred; and how did these play out in
later centuries? Who were the missionaries active in these conversions and how
did they achieve their goals. What cities emerged as important religious centers,
and what role did these play in the history of the area? What was the role of
crusading groups in the region?
Maps. Study especially maps 1, 2, 3, 5, 16, 23, 24. Be able to identify the countries on
map 1, the major geographic spaces on map 2, the major ethnic groups on map 3, the
two halves of the Roman Empire on map 5, the Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman
Empire, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Ottoman Empire on 16, 23, 24.