Europe 1300-1700

Midterm Exam
12 March 2004

Part 1: Map identification (16 pts.)

Directions: Draw a line from the name of the place to the appropriate dot on the map. The map of Europe you should use to study is located at the bottom course homepage: Map of Europe in 1648 (following the Treaty of Westphalia). Each name correctly identified is worth 1/2 pt.

Part 2: Gobbets (84 pts.)

Directions: You must comment on 7 of the 15 documents provided. For each document you say who wrote it (1 pt. for name, 1 pt. for spelling), the context/motivation/consequences of the document (7 pts.), and you will also need to address what the quote itself is discussing (3 pts). Be sure all of your answer is written in full, complete sentences!

1. "he was hanged with a halter, then taken down half dead, after which his body was vivisected in a most cruel and torturous manner, and after he had expired, his body was divided into four quarters, and his head fixed on a stake and set on London Bridge. But his four quarters thus divided, were sent to the four quarters of Scotland. Behold the end of a merciless man whom his mercilessness brought to this end." (from On William Wallace & Robert the Bruce)
   
   
2. "May it please you to admonish and exhort the King of the English, who ought to be satisfied with what belongs to him since England used once to be enough for seven kings or more, to leave us Scots in peace, who live in this poor little Scotland, beyond which there is no dwelling-place at all, and covet nothing but our own." (from The Declaration of Arbroath)
   
   
3. "The Englishmen, who were in three battles lying on the ground to rest them, as soon as they saw the Frenchmen approach rose…The first, which was the prince's battle, the archers…the second battle were on a wing in good order." (from On the Hundred Years' War)
   
   
4. "And what will follow, in God's name? Famine, because of the wasting and ruining of things that will ensue, and the lack of cultivation from which will spring revolts by the people..." (from Lament on the Evils of the Civil War)
   
   
5. "King of England, if you do not do these things, I am the commander of the military; and in whatever place I shall find your men in France, I will make them flee the country, whether they wish to or not, and if they will not obey, the Maid will have them all killed." (from Letter to the King of England)
   
   
6. "The pope at Avignon stopped all sessions of court, locked himself in a room, allowed no one to approach him and had a fire burning before him all the time." (from The Black Death and the Jews)
   
   
7. "Beneath my head are dragged the others who preceded me in simony, cowering within the fissures of the stone." (from Inferno Canto XIX)
   
   
8. "As, in the eagerness to get gold, every one will wish, naturally, to engage in its search in preference to any other employment, it seems to me that the privilege of going to look for gold ought to be withheld during some portion of each year, that there may be opportunity to have the other business necessary for the island performed." (from Letter to the King and Queen of Spain)
   
   
9. "He ordered that water for their hands should be given them, as also some fruit, one kind of which resembled a melon, except that its outside was rough and the inside sweet, whilst another kind of fruit resembled a fig, and tasted very nice." (from Round Africa to India)
   
   
10. "The Prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and disciplines." (from The Prince)
    
11. "In him was great bodily strength, joined to dexterity, with a spirit and courage ever royal and magnanimous, and the fame of his name so increased, that not only in his lifetime was he held in esteem, but his reputation became even greater among posterity after his death." (from Life of Leonardo da Vinci)
    
    
12. "Not to carie about tales and triflinge newis." (from The Chiefe Conditions and Qualities in a Courtier and in a Wayting Gentylwoman)
    
    
13. "Permitted, on the other hand, are the opinions and natural observations which have been written in the interest of navigation, agriculture or the medical arts." (from Rules on Prohibited Books)
    
    
14. "Papal indulgences for the building of St. Peter's are circulating under your most distinguished name." (from Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz)
    
    
15. "On occasion they should give time to works of mercy of a more visible character, such as in hospitals and prisons and helping other lands kinds of poor." (from Spreading God's Word in a German University)

Part 3 (Optional): Extra Credit (6 pts. possible to be added to your midterm exam grade)

Directions: For the question on each film you must provide an answer of 4-5 sentences.

1. In Shakespeare's Henry V, Henry is thought of as strong military leader and king for his people. Describe a scene in which you found Henry V to be such a leader. (3 pts.)
   
   
2. In Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, what imagery or scene did you find conveyed the impact of the Black Death on Europe most effectively?
   (3 pts.)

Final Exam
24 March 2004

Part 1: Essay (16 pts.)

Directions: Answer one of the following questions. You must have an introduction and conclusion, along with ten supporting points that directly address the question you have selected. Remember to write your answer in full, complete sentences!

If there was one topic covered in this course that you think should have a course of its very own, which topic would it be and why?

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Which country that we studied underwent the greatest change during the period 1300-1700?

Part 2: Gobbets (84 pts.)

Directions: You must comment on 7 of the 15 documents provided. For each document you say who wrote it (1 pt. for name, 1 pt. for spelling), the context/motivation/consequences of the document (7 pts.), and you will also need to address what the quote itself is discussing (3 pts). Be sure all of your answer is written in full, complete sentences!

1. "Lay wayte, and thereby apprehende al maner of persons that do haunt the seas with any kynde of vessels armed, beying not an apparaunt marchaunt." (from A Poclamation agaynst the maintenaunce of Pirates)
   
   
2. "I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a king, and a king of England, too." (from Against the Spanish Armada)
   
   
3. "…God hath made me his instrument to maintain his truth and glory and to defend his kingdom as I said from peril, dishonour, tyranny and oppression." (from The Farewell Speech)
   
   
4. "All agreed that the king of Navarre should be spared by reason of the royal dignity and the new alliance." (from The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day)
   
   
5. "For these reasons, we announce, declare, ordain, and will that all the strongholds, either towns or castles…not situated in places of importance either for frontier defense…shall be razed and demolished." (from the Edict of 1626)
   
   
6. "…one of the most glorious proofs of the happiness of a realm is that the sciences and arts flourish within it, and that letters as well as arms are held in esteem, since these constitute one of the chief ornaments of a powerful state." (from Letters Patent Establishing the French Academy)
   
   
7. "…they would have us altogether abandon reason and the evidence of our senses in favor of some biblical passage, though under the surface meaning of its words this passage may contain a different sense." (from Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina)
   
   
8. "Whereas you…aged seventy years, were denounced in 1615, to this Holy Office, for holding as true a false doctrine taught by many, namely, that the sun is immovable in the center of the world, and that the earth moves…" (from Indictment & Abjuration of 1633)
   
   
9. "…to annul all the privileges of this country, and govern it tyrannically at pleasure as in the Indies." (from The Dutch Declaration of Independence)
   
   
10. "…he knew the other could never be supported, without the consent of the people, to that degree which was necessary for the defence of so small a State against so mighty Princes as their neighbours." (from Dutch Government)
    
    
11. "…we will never forsake them, nor ever cease to importune you…for justice…that we, our husbands, children, friends and servants may not be liable to be thus abused, violated and butchered at men's wills and pleasures…" (from Radical Women During the English Revolution)
    
    
12. "Whereas the said late King James II having abdicated the government, and the throne being thereby vacant..." (from The Bill of Rights)
    
    
13. "In order to do your part, it will be necessary to have a great strength at sea, and to provide for the security of our ships in harbour…as is expected in proportion to the forces of our Allies." (from Address to Parliament on the French Question)
    
    
14. "The staple dish here consists of mice, which the inhabitants hunt, so desperate are they from hunger." (from Social Conditions in 17th Century France)
    
    
15. "He imagined that they were great only through him.... He felt that he could at any moment reduce them to their original obscurity." (from The Court of Louis XIV)
    
    

Part 3 (Optional): Extra Credit (6 pts. possible to be added to your final exam grade)

Directions: For the question on each film you must provide an answer of 4-5 sentences.

1. Based on the portrayal of her in Young Bess, why do you think Elizabeth developed into the strong and willful queen she became? (3 pts.)
   
   
2. How did the 1921 film version of The Three Musketeers compare to others you have seen? (3 pts.)